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An Oshkosh Wheeled Refueller vehicle operated by the RAF Tactical Supply Wing.. TSW's primary role is supporting the deployment of helicopter operations, specialising in providing rotors-turning refuelling to helicopters and field refuelling of fixed-wing aircraft; this can done from the back of a transport aircraft, or deploy-able storage facilities, such as bowsers or pillow tanks, often in ...
On 15 December 1942, No. 100 Squadron RAF proper was re-formed in the UK, at RAF Grimsby, near Waltham, as a night-time heavy bomber squadron and was part of No. 1 Group RAF, RAF Bomber Command. In January 1943, the squadron received the first of its new complement of Avro Lancasters ; the first operation of the squadron was on 4 March 1943 ...
RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912 (2nd ed.). Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-85310-053-6. Lake, Alan (1999). Flying Units of the RAF. Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Sturtivant, R; Hamlin, J; Halley, J (1997). Royal Air Force flying training and support ...
In late 1918, a scoreboard lists the claims for aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF between July and November that year. The wing's squadrons at the time (including two from the Australian Flying Corps), are: 4 Sqn AFC, 88 Sqn RAF, 4 Sqn AFC, 92 Sqn RAF, 103 Sqn RAF, 46 Sqn RAF, and 54 Sqn RAF.
Royal Air Force Mildenhall, or more simply RAF Mildenhall (IATA: MHZ, ICAO: EGUN), is a Royal Air Force station located near Mildenhall in Suffolk, England.Despite its status as a Royal Air Force station, it primarily supports United States Air Force (USAF) operations, and is currently the home of the 100th Air Refueling Wing (100 ARW).
The Royal Air Force has successfully trialled the UK’s first flight using 100 per cent sustainable fuel in what has been called a “breakthrough moment” for aviation.On Wednesday, the RAF ...
Typhoons representing the RAF Typhoon squadrons – 1 Sqn, 2 Sqn, 3 Sqn, 6 Sqn, 29 Sqn, 11 Sqn, 41 Sqn, 1435 Flight, and BOB75 in the centre to commemorate the Battle of Britain. Squadrons are the main form of flying unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
RAF St Mawgan has more than 20 nest boxes and rewilded areas for hedgehog conservation. ... A rescue charity has celebrated the release of more than 100 hedgehogs back into the wild at a Royal Air ...