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	List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons.
		The list also includes squadrons from British Empire and Commonwealth air forces which have served within RAF units.
		However, the list excludes squadrons which were later transferred to the Army Air Corps or the Fleet Air Arm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Royal_Air_Force_aircraft_squadrons (292 words)

	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.
		The RAF is the oldest independent air force in the world, formed on April 1, 1918.
		Royal Air Force Chaplains are trained by the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre at Amport House.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Royal_Air_Force (4058 words)

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		Operations Record Books, comprising both 'Summary of Events' forms (Form 540) and 'Detail of Work Carried Out' forms (Form 541), together with their appendices (usually operational orders, miscellaneous reports and telegraphed messages) are a record of daily events kept by all units of the Royal Air Force.
		Some operational records of the Fleet Air Arm for the period April 1933 to September 1943 are preserved in AIR 27 piece 2387.
		Unit records from the Army Air Corps from 1957 are in WO 295.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /catalogue/Leaflets/ri2274.htm (2065 words)

	The Royal Air Force - Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Royal Air Force Lyneham - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Their function was the advanced training on twin-engined aircraft of pilots who had been selected to fly multi-engined aeroplanes.
		The purpose of this unit was to train crews for the delivery of aircraft from storage to flying units, many of them in North Africa and the Middle East.
		With the increase in pure transport operations in the RAF, as opposed to ferrying, Transport Command was formed in March 1943.
	www.lyneham.raf.mod.uk /html/history/ww2.htm (1165 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.
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	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Royal Air Force's new Storm Shadow missile is also to be supplied to the Italian Air Force under a loint procurement programme managed by the MOD's Defence Procurement Agency.
		Air Chief Marshal Squire is presently the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Royal Air Force Strike Command, and is responsible for providing the RAF's front-line aircraft and the majority of RAF personnel for operations in Kosovo and the on-going coalition operations in the Middle East.
		Royal Air Force Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, is the home of No. 1 Flying Training School (FTS), which was originally formed on 29 July 1919 at RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire, establishing it as the oldest military flying training school in the world.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/99arch.html (5765 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft - The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
		The boat was attacked by a twin-engined RAF Hudson patrol bomber, operated by an unusually diverse multinational crew.
		Operating from his base at Mount Batten in Cornwall, Flying Officer Geoff Rossiter was patrolling the 'Derange' area of the Bay of Biscay in RAAF Sunderland 10/W. was spotted with binoculars, outward bound, whilst the Sunderland was about 17 miles away and patrolling just below the cloud base.
		A strong anti-submarine force had been prepared by the Allies for just this eventuality, and the result was the largest pitched battle between U-boats and aircraft of the entire war.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/raaf.htm (5663 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.
		As an example to this John Joyce ex RAF Seletar Marine Craft Unit, who coincidentally worked with me whilst I was on the adjacent Sunderland Flying Boat Squadron, recalls his flight home to the UK in a Hastings aircraft that had departed RAF Changi and was attempting to land at Katunayake...
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	Royal Air Force Shawbury Station Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Operations Wing at RAF Shawbury is responsible for providing air traffic control (ATC) within Low Flying Area No 9 (LFA 9), and airfield services at Shawbury and the relief landing grounds at Tern Hill and Chetwynd airfields.
		ATC Squadron is responsible for all operational and administrative aspects of the airfields at RAF Shawbury, Tern Hill and Chetwynd and the day-to-day control of all aircraft and vehicle movements at those airfields.
		Additionally, the squadron is responsible for the safe and expeditious control of military and civil aircraft flying in the vicinity of RAF Shawbury.
	www.shawbury.raf.mod.uk /opswg.html (429 words)

	The Royal Auxiliary Air Force Recruitment web site
		The camaraderie amongst the unit was evident as you saw officers and ranks; pilots and ground staff all mix together.
		I told him I was Air Force, he laughed and we had an excellent tour.
		The 135th operate 8 C-130J Hercules aircraft and I had been posted with one of the training flights for a 5 hour sortie.
	www.rafreserves.com /News/Story.aspx?article=161 (1290 words)

	Royal Air Force Lyneham - Logistic Support Wing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is also responsible for all external issues that are transported by land, sea and air, and are specialists in dealing with dangerous goods freight.
		TTandL are responsible for the issue of all FMT 600s for the unit, Contract Driver Training, regulation of driver familiarization training, driver theory testing, promoting Station and road safety awareness and accident investigation.
		Training is arranged locally in various guises such as toolbox talks, induction briefs and formal courses provided by Specialist Training Wing RAF Halton.
	www.lyneham.raf.mod.uk /html/org/lswg/lswg.htm (1359 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 Expeditionary Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The mission of the Air Warfare Battlelab is to rapidly identify and prove the worth of innovative ideas for enhancing the deployability, sustainability, survivability and lethality of contingency Air Expeditionary Forces.
		Includes summary descriptions of past air operations, data from pilot surveys, and tabular data on the suitability and restrictions of African airfields.
		The Air Force organized combat power into divisible buckets of capability - AEFs - to present airpower in a methodical manner and inject stability in airmen's lives.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/aef/aef1.htm (3130 words)

	The Handley Page Hastings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		RAF Transport Command Hastings aircraft were operated with a crew of 5 made up of Pilot (left hand seat), Co-pilot (right hand seat), the Navigator sat to the rear of the pilot and sat behind the navigator, the Signaller (Radio Operator) and behind the Co-pilot sat the Air/Flight Engineer.
		I recall the continuation training, you take off do a circuit or two, make a final approach, touch and go again, often you would have to have the tyres checked at the end of the runway by a rigger, he would check for cuts, bulges and wear, plus that the tyre pressures were correct.
		On June 30th Kuwait Operation Lifeline crisis occurred during this year and as many as six 48 Squadron Hastings from RAF Changi were deployed to RAF Khormaksar and other forward desert airstrip areas in The Gulf in support of averting the threat of invasion from Iraq.
	splashdown2.tripod.com /handleypagehastings (11907 words)

	Researching Australian military service: Second World War, Royal Australian Air Force
		Lists of RAAF members who served with RAF squadrons, arranged by squadron.
		within specified periods (outlined in the Introduction to Roll of Honour) in a war or warlike operation in which Australians were involved.
		Chronological listing with brief details of the circumstances of the loss.
	www.awm.gov.au /research/infosheets/raaf_ww2.asp (622 words)

	Armed Forces - RAF Contents List - RAF Index Page
		Royal Auxiliary Air Force and British Airline Fleets
		Air Force Board, Chief of The Air Staff and Chain of Command
		Short-range Air-to Surface Weapons - BL755 Cluster Bomb, CVR-7, 1000lb Bomb, Paveway I, Paveway II Long-range Air-to-Surface Weapons - ALARM, Brimstone, Storm Shadow
	www.armedforces.co.uk /rafindex.htm (112 words)

	Books : Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses. Volume 8: Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947 : ...
		Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Volume 3.
		Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945 (Incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF)
		Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Volume 2.
	www.centralreview.com /ItemId/1857801563 (87 words)

	The Royal Auxiliary Air Force Recruitment web site
		Squadron Leader Mike Mallon, of Lawn, Swindon, was ceremonially âDined-Outâ from the Officersâ Mess, RAF Brize Norton last Friday night on his retirement from No 4624 Movements Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, after 46 years in uniform.
		Mike first joined the Air Training Corps in Swindon in 1954.
		Mike Mallon as commander of the Sovereignâs Colour Guard at a parade held at the RAF College Cranwell in 1997.
	www.rafreserves.com /News/Story.aspx?article=95 (317 words)

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