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John Badger, DFC (31 May 1911 – 30 June 1941) was a British flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited with the destruction of at least ten aircraft. Born in London, Badger joined the RAF in 1928 as an apprentice tradesman. Three years later, he was awarded a flying cadetship and subsequently trained ...
In summer of 2020, British Airways and its parent company International Airline Group announced a restructuring programme that included up to 12,000 redundancies, [24] including 1,255 pilots. [25] BALPA members eventually accepted a deal that included a temporary 20% pay cut and a reduced number (270) of compulsory redundancies.
In the early 2000s, Noel Baker, one of the founding members and a long serving Director, suggested the idea of a parallel organisation that would be a Union. [citation needed] This was instituted in 2006 and initially was known as the Independent Pilots Federation (IPF). The IPF Union would offer all the advantages of such an organisation and ...
In the end, Air Marshal James Robb offered Bader a role commanding the North Weald sector of No. 11 Group RAF, an organisation steeped in Fighter Command and Battle of Britain history. It is likely Bader would have stayed in the RAF for some time had his mentor Leigh-Mallory not been killed in an air crash in November 1944, such was the respect ...
The following is a list of pilots and other aircrew who flew during the Battle of Britain, and were awarded the Battle of Britain Clasp [1] to the 1939–45 Star by flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period from 0001 hours on 10 July to 2359 hours 31 October ...
The pilot and observer sat in tandem, the pilot in front under the upper-wing trailing edge and the observer behind with a ring-mounted 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun. At first, the Badger had almost no fixed fin. Construction was the usual for the era fabric covered wood-and-fabric. The undercarriage was a single axle plus tailskid arrangement. [1]
The vast majority of British Airways’ short-haul flights from the West Sussex airport have been suspended since March 2020 due to the pandemic. British Airways reaches agreement with pilots over ...
Frank Broome (pilot) Des Broomfield; Alfred Broughton; Charles Broughton; Alfred John Brown (writer) Arthur Whitten Brown; Colin Brown (RAF officer) George H. Brown (producer) Oswald Taylor Brown; Peter Brown (New Zealand artist) Sailor Brown; Jack Browne, Baron Craigton; Sir Michael Bruce, 11th Baronet; Willie Buchan; George Bulman (pilot ...