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  2. Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] The post was re-titled Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force (WORAF) on 1 July 2021; 3 years ago (), and whilst continuing to report directly to the Chief of the Air Staff, the scope of the WORAF was widened to 'work for the entirety of the RAF'. [4] The current WORAF is WO Murugesvaran 'Subby' Subramaniam, who was appointed in April ...

  3. Warrant officer (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, the RAF abolished the rank of WOII and retained only the WOI rank, referred to simply as warrant officer (WO), which it remains to this day. The RAF has no equivalent to WO2 (NATO OR-8), an RAF WO being equivalent to WO1 in the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Marines (NATO OR-9) and wears the same badge of rank, the royal coat of arms.

  4. Accidents and incidents involving the Consolidated B-24 ...

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    The five-member RAF Ferry Command crew and ten civilians on the ground were killed, and a large fire destroyed at least 10 homes. Witnesses described seeing part of the tail detached at low altitude as the aircraft apparently tried to reach the river. The crew included three members of the Polish Air Force. [42] 29 April 1944

  5. Royal Air Force Air Cadets - Wikipedia

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    RAF Air Cadets marching in a parade. The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC) is the combined volunteer-military youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Air Force, which is formed by both the Air Training Corps and RAF Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. [3] The organisation is headed by a former serving RAF officer, Commandant Air Cadets.

  6. Air Training Corps - Wikipedia

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    Adult SNCOs and warrant officers (WO) are uniformed in the same way as their RAF counterparts, except that the embroidered text of 'RAF AIR CADETS' appears below their rank insignia. Since December 2017, Air Training Corps SNCOs and WOs had their ranks transferred to the new RAFAC commissions and ranks framework.

  7. Murugesvaran Subramaniam - Wikipedia

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    He would later take up the role of Deputy Plans and Mission Support Flight, which saw him posted back to RAF High Wycombe and service in principally administration jobs. In 2019, he was promoted to Warrant Officer (WO) and appointed as the commanding WO of the RAF's Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and the Link 16 system. [2]

  8. Royal Air Force - Wikipedia

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    The RAF was put in charge of British military activity in Iraq, and carried out minor activities in other parts of the British Empire, including establishing bases to protect Singapore and Malaya. [22] The RAF's naval aviation branch, the Fleet Air Arm, was founded in 1924 but handed over to Admiralty control on 24 May 1939. [23]

  9. List of Royal Air Force personnel - Wikipedia

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    Sir Keith Park – New Zealander – AOC No. 11 Group RAF during Battle of Britain; Sir Frank Whittle – Co-inventor of the turbojet; Guy Gibson – Dambusters raid leader and VC holder; Leonard Cheshire – Charity founder and VC holder; Henry Allingham – World War I veteran and last surviving founder member of the RAF