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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Grob Tutor
		The wings are tapered with square tips and the empennage consists of a large fin and rudder with an oblong tailplane with square tips mid-set to the fuselage.
		RAF air defence bases RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England.
		RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire close to the village of Cranwell, near Sleaford.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grob-Tutor (1309 words)

	RAF Alconbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAF Alconbury is a United States Air Force installation adjacent to the Stukeleys, near Alconbury and Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.
		RAF Alconbury, RAF Molesworth and RAF Upwood are considered the Tri-Base Area.
		In May 1942, RAF Alconbury was allocated to the United States Eighth Air Force when a number of stations in East Anglia were turned over to the Americans after their entry into the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Alconbury (6117 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Avro York
		At the RAF Cosford Collection is Avro 685 York C1, TS798 (cn 1223) which was delivered new to the RAF as TS798, then to BOAC and Skyways (G-AGNV), then to Staverton, Brize Norton and Shawbury.
		RAF Cosford is a Royal Air Force station in Shropshire, just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton.
		List of aircraft of the RAF Many aircraft types have served in the Royal Air Force since it was formed in 1918 by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Avro-York (1894 words)

	United Kingdom: Royal Air Force
		The RAF flag/Ensign was flown by the various launches and tenders that were part of seaplane squadrons in the 1920s and 1930s, and then by the vessels of the Air Sea Rescue Service, formed in 1939.
		The QC's of the RAF and Royal Marines are the only two sets which use the standard 'Admiralty pattern' of Union Flag, whereas those of the Royal Navy and Army each have their own unique variation.
		The idea for RAF colours originated in 1943 (see note below on the significance of 1943), on the 25th anniversary of the service, but because of wartime austerity measures, it was not possible to present any until after the War's end.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-raf.html (4502 words)

	BAE Hawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It entered RAF service in April 1976, replacing the Gnat and Hawker Hunter in the advanced training and weapons training roles respectively.
		The most famous RAF operator of the Hawk is the Red Arrows aerobatic team, which adopted the plane in 1979.
		With the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, RAF Hawks are no longer tasked with this role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BAe_Hawk (1618 words)

	The BAE Hawk
		The first user was the RAF flight instruction unit at RAF Valley on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, followed by other RAF organizations such as the weapons training units at RAF Brawdey and Chivenor, and also units of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
		The most prominent RAF unit flying the T.1 is the "Red Arrows" flight demonstration unit, which carries on a long tradition of exciting crowds at international airshows and public exhibitions flying formations with nine red-painted Hawks.
		The wing pylons were qualified to carry a twin stores rack, allowing the Hawk 100 to carry, for example, a warload of nine 250 kilogram (550 pound) bombs, a pretty impressive punch for a small aircraft.
	www.vectorsite.net /avhawk.html (6304 words)

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		I should point out that because with a canard aircraft both surfaces are lifting wings (the canard actually has a much greater wing loading than the main wing) their size, position, interference with each other, high lift devices, etc., have a very important effect on the cg range, the flying qualities, and low speed performance.
		Part one (fuselage, canard, inboard wing, vertical stabs, control system, and landing gear) should be ready by March or April and will include drawing changes to use the larger AN 220-2 control system pulleys which are much easier to obtain than those shown in the plans.
		The rudders are supposed to be attached to the elevators - not the wings.
	cozybuilders.org /ref_info/Canard_Pusher/CPs_1_to_82_Sections.txt (20146 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Not content with this, Mosquitos from RAF No 139 Squadron went to Berlin in the afternoon and tried to interrupt an important speech by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Germany's Propaganda Minister.
		One of the higher risk uses of the fighter-bomber Mosquito FB VI was by squadrons of No. 2 Group, 2nd Tactical Air Force in Operation Jericho, a mission to destroy the walls and guards' quarters of Amiens prison to allow members of the French resistance to escape.
		The RAF found that when finally applied to bombing, in terms of useful damage done, the Mosquito had proved 4.5 times cheaper than the Lancaster; and they never specified a defensive gun on a bomber thereafter.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=De_Havilland_Mosquito (5113 words)

	United Kingdom: Royal Air Force
		It may possibly be by analogy with the White Ensign, particularly as the RAF originally wanted to have a White Ensign without the cross as their flag (they also tried a White Ensign with a blue cross, which they referred to as a St. Michael's cross).
		The RAF flag/Ensign was flown by the various launches and tenders that were part of seaplane squadrons in the 1920s and 1930s, and then by the vessels of the Air Sea Rescue Service, formed in 1939.
		The idea for RAF colours originated in 1943 (see note below on the significance of 1943), on the 25th anniversary of the service, but because of wartime austerity measures, it was not possible to present any until after the War's end.
	www.fotw.us /flags/gb-raf.html (3885 words)

	Airacobra I for RAF, P-400
		No. 601 "County of London" Squadron was selected to be the first Fighter Command squadron to equip with the Airacobra.
		No 601 Squadron relinquished its 13 Airacobras in March of 1942 in favor of Spitfires.
		179 of the Airacobras sent to Britain were re-acquired by the USAAF and were sent to North Africa to join the Twelfth Air Force.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher1/p39_5.html (2913 words)

	The Martin B-26 Marauder
		This was remarkable as no prototype had been flown, and for that matter no prototype was even formally planned.
		Most RAF Marauders were used in North Africa and the Middle East, initially replacing Blenheims.
		The RAF operated five squadrons of Marauders, the SAAF operated six squadrons, and the Free French operated six squadrons in North Africa.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avb26.html (5110 words)

	B-24s for Australia
		Some of these were delivered to No 7 OTU for training, but most of the others were delivered to operational units for combat.
		In addition, Nos 200 and 201 Special Duties Flights flew Liberators in covert operations, which generally involved the dropping of agents, the support of guerilla operations, and the supplying of coastal watchers.
		It is A72-176, a B-24M flown by 82 Wing.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b24_30.html (2832 words)

	Skylark Aviation Ltd - aircraft history
		The Chipmunk was the first de Havilland aircraft in which no wood was used: its construction is almost all of metal, although control surfaces and the rear two-thirds of the wings are fabric-covered.
		Civilianised versions of RAF aircraft became available in large numbers from the late 1950s, the T.10 becoming the Mk.22 in civil service (the Mk.22A was a modification featuring a greater fuel capacity).
		The last aircraft were retired from the RAF's air-experience flights in 1996, although two Chipmunks remain in the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for converting fast jet pilots to the Spitfires and Hurricanes.
	www.skylarkaviation.co.uk /aircraft.htm (1171 words)

	uboat.net - History - U-boat Successes against aircraft
		In a number of cases there were no survivors from either the aircraft or the U-boat.
		Lost with this aircraft was Wing Commander R M Longmore, the commanding officer of the 120 Squadron.
		One source says that RAF Coastal Command (U-boat hunters) lost 700 aircraft (badly damaged, shot down and paid off - not all to U-boats of course) and sank 220 U-boats during the war.
	www.uboat.net /history/aircraft_losses.htm (2353 words)

	Target Lock: Nimrod : Origins
		This aircraft, based on the Comet 4 wings and fuselage married to the RB.168 engine, was known as the HS.801.
		A further eleven airframes were ordered in the mid-1970s, but there was no requirement for these; it was a purely political decision to maintain employment.
		The RAF's Staff Requirement (Air) 420 for a new Maritime, Reconnaisance and Attack aircraft to replace the Nimrod MR.2 was endorsed in November 1992, when an initial data gathering phase was authorised.
	www.targetlock.org.uk /nimrod (923 words)

	Winston Churchill and Iraq : Hawai'i IMC
		Drawing parallels with the threat that Mr Rumsfeld says is posed by President Saddam Hussein, the Defence Secretary highlighted the rigid line Churchill took against the threat of Hitler, in the face of appeasers and doubters at home and abroad, because the British Prime Minister realised what a threat the German leader was to Europe.
		Churchill was in no doubt that gas could be profitably employed against the Kurds and Iraqis (as well as against other peoples in the Empire): "I do not understand this sqeamishness about the use of gas.
		Churchill himself was keen to argue that gas, fired from ground-based guns or dropped from aircraft, would cause "only discomfort or illness, but not death" to dissident tribespeople; but his optimistic view of the effects of gas were mistaken.
	hawaii.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1744 (955 words)

	Army in India & Frontier Warfare 1914 - 1939 :: Khyber.ORG
		The use of the RAF in co-operation with troops was discussed and it even went on to cover the employment of tanks in hill warfare, although they were still unavailable in India.
		No radical changes were made by the General Staff in the system of periodic relief of units stationed in the NWFP or the training methods used by the Army in India apart from greater emphasis on light infantry training.
		This decision had strengthened Wing Commander John Slessor's - CO of No. 3 (Indian Wing) - growing conviction that a radical change should be made in the system of army co-operation used in India, as the existing ‘Aldershot model’- devised for conventional European warfare - was largely ineffective in mountainous terrain [58].
	www.khyber.org /publications/041-045/armyininda.shtml (10396 words)

	Defence Internet \| Defence News \| RN and RAF Harrier combat ops gear up as Royal Navy crews join the fight against the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Command of the JFH Detachment at Kandahar is now passing to 800 Naval Air Squadron, also based at RAF Cottesmore and part of No. 904 Expeditionary Air Wing, which is the home of the JFH and all UK Harriers.
		The MoD has released statistics on the sharply rising numbers of rockets and bombs being deployed by UK Harriers, which are regularly called on by ground troops to target Taleban fighters, their strongholds and to provide protection to coalition forces.
		The dropping of freefall or retarded 500lb bombs rose from 2 to 28 and its 1,000lb equivalent, both of which can be set to explode as an airburst, on impact or post impact, rose from nil in July to 10 in September.
	www.mod.uk /DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/RnAndRafHarrierCombatOpsGearUpAsRoyalNavyCrewsJoinTheFightAgainstTheTalebanvideo.htm (1027 words)

	R G Knott
		After nearly five years in India, he returned to Britain, converted to the Wellington and was appointed as a flight commander with No 179 Squadron in Gibraltar, flying Leigh-Light equipped Wellingtons on anti-submarine patrols.
		He was promoted to take command of No 524 Squadron in 1944 and was tasked with developing a new method of operation.
		A short spell in the Air Ministry was followed by command of RAF Gutersloh in Germany, which at that time was home to a Wing of Hunter fighter-reconnaissance aircraft.
	www.rafweb.org /Biographies/Knott_RG.htm (1014 words)

	Interactions between Ras1, dMyc, and dPI3K signaling in the developing Drosophila wing -- Prober and Edgar 16 (17): ...
		Intense GFP fluorescence is present at the apical region of the cell membrane, colocalizing with Armadillo, a component of apically localized adherens junctions.
		Gray, A., Van Der Kaay, J., and Downes, C.P. The pleckstrin homology domains of protein kinase B and GRP1 (general receptor for phosphoinositides-1) are sensitive and selective probes for the cellular detection of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and/or phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate in vivo.
		Martin-Castellanos, C. and Edgar, B.A. A characterization of the effects of Dpp signaling on cell growth and proliferation in the Drosophila wing.
	www.genesdev.org /cgi/content/full/16/17/2286 (6869 words)

	Wing Commander CIC June 2004 News Archive
		Dareith is a fan of both Wing Commander and Babylon 5, and he's gone ahead and spent a lot of time implementing new rules to incorporate Confed and Kilrathi ships into the Babylon 5 Wars tabletop game.
		Wing Commander author William R. Forstchen and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich begin a book signing tour on Monday to promote their latest collaboration, Grant Comes East.
		Wing Commander 3, 4 and Prophecy producer Mark Day stopped by #Wingnut to say 'hello' the other night and mentioned he had listed a few of his old Wing Commander books on ebay.
	www.wcnews.com /news/showarchive.php?archive=june2004 (6579 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		It entered RAF service in April 1976, replacing the Gnat and Hawker Hunter in the advanced training and weapons training roles respectively.
		The most famous RAF operator of the Hawk is the Red Arrows aerobatic team, which adopted the plane in 1979.
		With the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, RAF Hawks are no longer tasked with this role.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=BAE_Hawk (1768 words)

	Marauder
		The Martin Model 179 proposal was considered to be so far in advance of competing submissions that in September 1939 the company was awarded an 'off the drawing board' contract for 201 of these aircraft.
		Under Lend-Lease the RAF received a total of 522 Marauders, used by the RAF's Nos 14 and 39 Squadrons and the South African Air Force's Nos 12, 21, 24, 25 and 30 Squadrons, these being deployed most successfully alongside the B-26s of the US 42nd Bomb Wing, and against German targets in the Balkans.
		The squadrons of the 42nd Bomb Wing along with the French squadrons gave support to the Allied armies in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944 and supported their drive up through Southern France and through into Germany.
	www.b26.com /page/martin_b26_marauder.htm (760 words)

	RAF Bulletin No. 6
		An overview and summary of capabilities of the Hercules is described in Research Aviation Facility Bulletin No. 3.
		It should be noted that reserve fuel requirements may be considerably higher in areas with no suitable landing alternates.
		During the preparation phase, an RAF Project Manager will inform and familiarize the requestor with the ICS to ensure that this system is used to its full potential.
	www.eol.ucar.edu /raf/Bulletins/bulletin6.html (2038 words)

	RAF Bulletin No. 6
		The NCAR pilots, of course, are responsible for the detailed planning of specific flight profiles, but for the user to complete the flight operations section of the Request for Aviation Support Form (See Research Aviation Facility Bulletin No. 1.), a basic understanding of the aircraft's performance is essential.
		An overview and summary of capabilities of the Hercules is described in Research Aviation Facility Bulletin No. 3.
		During the preparation phase, an RAF Project Manager will inform and familiarize the requestor with the ICS to ensure that this system is used to its full potential.
	www.atd.ucar.edu /raf/Bulletins/bulletin6.html (2038 words)

	Obelus.org \| Christopher Hitchens: Flickering Firebrand
		The ugly realpolitik in this case was the desire to keep Turkey (with its long and paranoid history of suppressing Kurdish independence[3]) 'on side'.
		In March 2001, RAF pilots patrolling the northern no fly zone publicly protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq.
		Far from performing the 'vital humanitarian task' described by Tony Blair, they complained that they were frequently ordered to return to their Turkish base to allow the Turkish air force to bomb the Kurds in Iraq...
	www.obelus.org /index.php?artID=9&pgID=29 (1114 words)

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		Though the wing, stabilizers, and fins were all-metal, the ailerons, elevators, and rudders were fabric-covered.
		Early versions of the B-24 were heavily armed by pre-war standards, the B-24A having two.30 caliber machine guns in the tail and six.50 caliber weapons (one in the nose, one in a ventral position, two in an upper turret, and one on each side at the waist positions).
		Some of No. 311 Squadron's Liberators were equipped with four 5-inch rockets on airfoil-shaped mounts forward of the bomb bays, and such rockets were used in sinking one U-boat.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/b24.htm (2060 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft - Vickers Warwick
		It came as no surprise when, on 21 January 1943, it was finally decided that the Warwick would not enter service as a bomber.
		But when the war ended, just one squadron was equipped with them, No 179.
		Wing span 29.46m, length 22.25m, height 5.64m, wing area 94.67m2.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/warwick.htm (896 words)

	The EAF in Peace and War--July 2002
		An airman may or may not be tapped to deploy during the three-month period when his or her AEF is in the barrel.
		The lead wings are the 366th Wing from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and the 48th Fighter Wing from RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom.
		The on-call Aerospace Expeditionary Wings, providing backup for surprise requirements, are the 3rd Wing from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, and the 4th Fighter Wing from Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. "Normally, Mountain Home and Seymour Johnson are the alternating Air Expeditionary Wings," Peck said.
	www.afa.org /magazine/July2002/0702EAF.html (3584 words)

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