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	Royal Air Force - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces.
		Groups are the subdivisions of operational Commands, responsible for certain types of operation or for operations in limited geographical areas.
		They recently operated surface-to-air missiles [Rapiers] to defend against air attack [This role, against the wish of the RAF, was given to the Royal Artillery in 2005], and have infantry and light armoured units to protect against ground attack.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Royal_Air_Force (4058 words)

	List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons.
		It includes Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service squadrons incorporated into the RAF when it was formed in 1918, during World War I.
		The list also includes squadrons from British Empire and Commonwealth air forces which have served within RAF units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Royal_Air_Force_aircraft_squadrons (292 words)

	List of Royal Air Force groups - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of Royal Air Force groups.
		The group is a unit just below major command level.
		This page was last modified 12:41, 25 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Royal_Air_Force_groups (62 words)

	Air War Korea
		The South African air force No. 2 Squadron, the Union of South Africa's contribution to UN airpower, arrived in the theater and was attached to FEAF.
		The Royal Hellenic air force detachment, a C-47 transport unit representing Greece's airpower contribution to the war, arrived in the Far East and was attached to FEAF.
		Fifth Air Force operations officers reported this to be the most intensive napalm attack on a single area in the war.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Oct2000/1000korea.asp (14055 words)

	The Royal Air Force - Stations
		Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrew's University Air Squadron operate the Tutor T1 and the airfield is also home to an RAF Mountain Rescue Unit and the Air Transportable Surgical Unit.
		The Hercules Operational Conversion Unit, No 57 (Reserve) Squadron operates 5 Hercules C1/C3s at Lyneham, which is also home to No 4626 (County of Wiltshire) Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, RAuxAF, and the UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron, responsible for establishing handling facilities at temporary bases.
		The unit based at Northolt responsible for VIP transport is No 32 (Royal) Squadron which operates 6 BAe125s, 2 BAe146s and 3 Squirrel HCC1s, and incorporates the aircraft of the former Queen's Flight.
	www.raf.mod.uk /stations/f_stn.html (2947 words)

	Royal Air Force
		During the conflict the Royal Air Force lost 792 planes and the Luftwaffe 1,389.
		Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal and the new head of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, developed the policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
		Defence against air attacks required the production of thousands of anti-aircraft guns, the stockpiling of tremendous quantities of ammunition over the country, and holding in readiness hundreds of thousands of soldiers, who in addition had to stay in position by their guns, often totally inactive, for months at a time.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWraf.htm (7422 words)

	Martin B-57 Canberra -- Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Operations were carried out in cooperation with C-130 or C-123 flare-deploying aircraft that illuminated potential targets and with USMC EF-10B Skyknight electronics warfare aircraft that jammed radar-controlled AAA and detected enemy missile sites that were preparing to launch.
		Combat attrition in the B-57 force plus the increasing availability of higher performance fighters to carry out the air war against the North caused the 3rd BG to be withdrawn from operations against the North in October of 1966 and relocated to Phan Rang, just south of Nha Trang and Cam Ranh Bay.
		The identity of the 8th BS was transferred to another unit at Bien Hoa to become the 8th Attack Squadron, which was equipped with Cessna A-37s.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b057-04.html (3190 words)

	Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 3
		The "Flying Tigers" operated against the Japanese during the enemy's drive toward Changsha and Chungking in May 1943, supported Chinese forces during the Japanese offensive in the Tungting Hu region in Nov 1943, and took part in the effort to halt a Japanese force that pushed down the Hsiang Valley in Jun 1944.
		Air echelons of two squadrons arrived in Hawaii in May 1942 and took part in the Battle of Midway; they did not rejoin the group and eventually were reassigned.
		Operating from bases in India, and at times staging through fields in China, the group struck such targets as transportation centers, naval installations, iron works, and aircraft plants in Burma, Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, and Formosa, receiving a DUC for bombing iron and steel works at Yawata, Japan, on 20 Aug 1944.
	libraryautomation.com /nymas/usaaf3.html (12936 words)

	RAF Bomber Command 1939-1945 : Rob Davis
		Army Air Force (8AAF) arrived in Britain and began to operate against the enemy, many former US nationals were wooed back into the Army Air Force olive green uniform, tripling their rate of pay.
		Squadron Commanders were not required to operate on every raid, but one measure of their leadership skills was how often they and their crew actually did fly with the rest of the squadron.
		Still operating by night, RAF Bomber Command could now find their targets, which were by this time very often city centres as well as specific military targets.
	www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /raf_bc (9164 words)

	The Royal Air Force
		Handley Page Hastings TG579 Mark C-1 was commissioned to be built for the Royal Air Force by the Air Ministry under contract number 4186 at the Handley Page Headquarters and aircraft factory at Cricklewood, Hertfordshire as part of an order of some 200, which was later cut by 25%.
		The Operations Record Book (ORB), RAF Form 541, for Royal Air Force Changi, Singapore of 48 Squadron dated February and March 1960 is marked `secret with a three lined entry inked out between the period 25th to 29th February (leap year) 1960.
		I understand from conversations with a third party that the pilot F/Lt Scott was determined to reach Gan that night at all costs as he did not want to stay overnight at Katunayake.
	splashdown2.tripod.com (10733 words)

	Armed Forces - RAF Contents List - RAF Index Page
		RAF Squadron listings (1 May 2006 - includes recent campaigns)
		Royal Auxiliary Air Force and British Airline Fleets
		Air Force Board, Chief of The Air Staff and Chain of Command
	www.armedforces.co.uk /rafindex.htm (112 words)

	AIR FORCE SYSTEMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In mid-2002 the Shenyang Aircraft company revealed its intention to build upgraded multi-role versions of the single-seat J-11 by revealing a mock-up armed with Kh-31 ASMs and R-77 AAMs. The mock-up had the number “2001,” perhaps indicating that was the year Sukhoi and Shenyang agreed to the upgrade.
		The PHALCON is an active phased array radar that operates in the L-Band, which is good for long-range detection. The radar itself would was to be placed in a fixed position in a radome atop the aircraft.
		[100] This would constitute a vast improvement over the Shmel-1 and Shmel-2 radar systems in service with the Russian Air Force that often encountered problems. The early A-50s were also criticized for their lack of sanitary facilities, a particular concern for crews on long flights.
	www.uscc.gov /researchpapers/2004/04fisher_report/7airforcesystems.htm (7520 words)

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