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The Royal Air Force Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC), at Adastral Hall, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, is the centre through which every potential RAF officer must go to be selected for Initial Officer Training (IOT) and through which potential non-commissioned aircrew must go to be selected for the Direct Entry Senior Non-commissioned Officer (DE-SNCO) course.
Similar to pilots in the regular RAF, those in the RAFVR are given their own unique flying badges based on the nature of their flying. Air Experience Pilots wear a badge styled on the RAF Pilot badge, but with blue swift's wings instead of white, and the central lettering 'RAF' is replaced with 'VR' for Volunteer Reserve.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [7] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [8]
Upon the merger of Personnel and Training Command with Strike Command to form RAF Air Command on 1 April 2007, the post of AOC Personnel and Training was re-designated as Deputy Commander-in-Chief Personnel (DCinC Pers), retaining the responsibility to Chief of the Air Staff as Air Member for Personnel.
The RAF maintains a presence with the Northern Ireland Universities Air Squadron and No. 13 Air Experience Flight operating the Grob Tutor T1 and No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron (Royal Auxiliary Air Force). [46] Kenley Airfield: England Surrey: Former RAF station, currently home to No. 615 Volunteer Gliding Squadron flying the Grob Viking T1. [47 ...
Originally, ground trades in the RAF were organised by specialisms into groups numbering I, II, III, IV, and V, along with M for any medical associated trades. They were subsequently changed into numerical Trade Groups (TG), one of the earliest mentions was the creation of Trade Group 9 for the trade of Firefighter on 31 December 1943 as part ...
Air specialist is a junior non-commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force.The rank was introduced in July 2022 and it comprises two different classes, namely Air Specialist Class 1 and Air Specialist Class 2, [1] which were formerly designated as Senior Aircraftman and Leading Aircraftman respectively.
RAF officers typically wear composite braid rank slides with their working and operational uniforms. Composite braid consists of a single piece of fabric, where the "background" between the rank rings is made from blue-grey or olive green material. Composite braid rank slides are often referred to as "bar-code" in RAF slang. [citation needed]