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	Royal Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAF squadrons are somewhat analogous to the regiments of the British army, in that they have histories and traditions going back to their formation, regardless of where they are currently based, which aircraft they are operating, etc. They can be awarded standards and battle honours for meritorious service.
		RAF personnel who have risen to prominence either by their actions whilst serving, or subsequently are detailed at List of famous Royal Air Force members.
		RAF fighters based in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait prior to and during the 1990 Gulf War, and later to enforce no-fly zones over Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Air_Force (3401 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: RAF Museum
		The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular.
		Recently added to the museum is a B-24 Liberator which moved to Hendon from Hendon's sister site at Cosford, the aircraft was originally presented to the Museum from the Indian Air Force.
		The RAF was under the supervision of the Air Ministry and was the world's second independent air force, after the German Luftwaffe, though because of the Luftwaffe was disbanded after the end of World War I, the RAF is technically the current oldest.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RAF-Museum (1403 words)

	RAF Cosford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAF Cosford is a Royal Air Force station in Shropshire, just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton.
		RAF Cosford opened in 1938 as a joint aircraft maintenance, storage and technical training unit.
		There is also the Aerospace Museum at the site, which is a branch of the RAF Museum, displaying a unique collection of research and development aircraft, along with collections of missiles and airliners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Cosford (203 words)

	RAF Bentwaters RAF Woodbridge Twin Bases
		The museum will be dedicated to preserving the aviation heritage with which the base has become synonymous during almost half a century of its history from 1944 until 1993.
		Plans for a museum were announced at the 81st Fighter Wing Association's "50th" reunion, held at RAF Bentwaters in September 2001, fifty years after the USAF arrived at the base.
		RAF Bentwaters on 15th September 2001, Bill Kemball announced that part of the Control Tower will be set aside for the creation of a small museum of memorabilia of RAF Bentwaters.
	www.bentwaters.org /history/museum.htm (1146 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Royal Air Force
		The RAF was founded in April 1, 1918 by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
		The primary role of the RAF in the Cold War years was the defence of Europe against potential attack by the Soviet Union.
		The names and insignia of RAF Officers were based on those in use by the Royal Navy, specifically the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during World War I. For example, the RAF rank of Flying Officer was derived from the RNAS rank of Flight Sub-Lieutenant.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Royal_Air_Force (3785 words)

	Raf Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following the success of its last show at RAF Museum Cosford, it is expected that the UK's top suppliers of equipment components and services for fastening and...
		in the main hangar of the RAF Museum Hendon]] The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular.
		The museum was officially opened at the Hendon site on November 15, 1972 by Her Majesty The Queen.
	www.wikiverse.org /raf-museum (336 words)

	201 Squadron Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guernsey Museums and Galleries' most recent museum development was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, on 12 July 2001.
		The museum's environment draws inspiration from the interior of a Sunderland flying boat, with structures and surfaces painted in regulation "interior" green.
		The museum is essentially an updated version of an earlier facility which closed in 1996, when its previous location within the castle was redeveloped as a shop.
	www.museum.guernsey.net /201_squadron_museum.htm (453 words)

	Case Study - RAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The RAF Museum, based in Hendon, north-west London, was founded in 1963 to collect, preserve and display all forms of material recalling the history of the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Air Force and aviation generally.
		The Museum is the only national museum concerned solely with aviation and covers the many aspects of the military and civil, artistic and scientific, industrial and political influence of aviation in the modern world.
		As a charity, the Museum was forced to recognise the implications of new accounting regulations under the recent Charities acts, which meant that because of its complex organisation, its systems had to be overhauled.
	www.ashgoal.com /caseStudy/caseStudy_RAF.html (661 words)

	RAF Museum, Hendon: 19 Jul 2004: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Ministry of Defence sponsors the RAF museum as a non-departmental public body and provides a grant in aid to meet the majority of the museum's running costs.
		The relationship with the RAF is mutually beneficial, since the museum actively promotes the Royal Air Force to the general public, as well as to aspiring airmen and airwomen.
		While the whole House will be pleased to hear about the support that the Government are giving to the RAF museum, does the Minister agree that if the cuts to the RAF that his right hon.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2004-07-19.7.0&m=919#g7.8 (532 words)

	London Town Hotels for accommodation near RAF Museum in London, UK
		The Royal Air Force Museum, Britain's National Museum of Aviation, celebrates the story of aviation from before the Wright Brothers to the RAF of the 21st Century with one of the world's finest collections of legendary aircraft and associated exhibits.
		The RAF Museum in London was opened in November 1972 by Her Majesty The Queen.
		The Museum stands on 15 acres of the historic former Hendon Aerodrome at RAF Hendon, one of the oldest aviation centres in the country.
	www.londontownhotels.net /raf_museum.htm (270 words)

	BBC - Shropshire - Features - RAF Museum, Cosford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The RAF Museum in Cosford is free to enter, and is a must for anyone with more than a passing interest in aviation.
		The work is expected to be finished in 2006 and John Francis, the museum's General Manager, said the project is expected to attract an extra 50,000 tourists to the area.
		Of course, the museum is also part of one of the biggest events to take place in the county - the RAF Cosford Air Show, which is held on the museum's grounds, as well as at the neighbouring RAF station.
	www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/features/places/cosford/index.shtml (688 words)

	BASE STRUCTURES > Portfolio > Interiors > RAF Museum Hendon
		RAF Museum Hendon aircraft display with fabric backdrop.
		Our brief was to design and install a ceiling system within the museum which would also act as a diffuser for the concealed lighting.
		The new museum space and displays have proved very popular with the public.
	www.basestructures.com /portfolio.php?pfname=RAF-Museum-Hendon (130 words)

	RAF Bomber Command 1939-1945 : Rob Davis
		RAF Bomber Command with HQ at High Wycombe was responsible for most light and medium, and all heavy, bomber units.
		RAF Bomber Command Lancaster veterans speak with great affection of their aircraft, and over the years it has acquired a status equal to that of its wartime comrade, the Supermarine Spitfire.
		At the height of the battle, a diminutive RAF wireless-operator was engaged in close combat with a large Australian navigator.
	www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /raf_bc (9164 words)

	The Royal Air Force - Cosford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Additionally, a major military hospital, built on the site in 1940 with a planned life of 10 years, played a major role in prisoners-of-war repatriation at the end of the War and went on to serve the RAF and the local community until its closure on 31 December.
		The second phase of training rationalisation is in place, following the move of ground electronic and communication training from RAF Locking into a brand new, state of the art, training facility.
		One of the first RAF stations to become fully accredited to an ISO 9000 quality assurance system the Station is now an accredited Investor In People.
	www.raf.mod.uk /cosford (515 words)

	The RAF Neatishead Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, situated at RAF Neatishead, was opened in October 94.
		The museum, a registered charity, traces the history and development of Air Defence Radar during the period 1935 to 1993.
		The museum also holds a large quantity of photographs, documents and videos relating to Air Defence equipment and procedures which can be made available to individuals for research purposes.
	www.neatishead.raf.mod.uk /museum/museum.htm (247 words)

	RAF Regiment Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before Bofors were issued to the RAF Regiment many LAA Sqn's used the 20mm Hispanos mounted on Anti Aircraft mountings, however these were prone to many faillures including self Destructing Ammunition.
		RAF Catterick was the depot and home of the RAF Regiment from 1946 after it moved from Belton Park.
		In 1969 The RAF Regt was given the responsibilty of RAF Aldergrove, Ballykelly and Bishops Court
	www.rafregt.8k.com /royal_air_force_regiment_museum.htm (694 words)

	RAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Includes the University Art Museum, the Jonson Gallery, the Fine Arts Center, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, the Tamarind Institute, The Museum of Geology and the Meteorite Museum, the Museum of Southwestern Biology, the Art Education Gallery, Sommers Gallery, and a few smaller art galleries on campus.
		The groundbreaking for the new museum was held on April 9, 1999.
		The University Museum of Sardar Patal University is considered as one of the out-standing multi-disciplinary museum in the country.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Royal_Air_Force_Museum (2026 words)

	Royal Air Force Museum Cosford on AboutBritain.com
		The aircraft in the Museum's Research and Development Collection embrace most of the important aspects of these advances and show some of the strangest and most exotic aircraft on display anywhere.
		RAF Museum Cosford has one of the finest aero engine collections in Britain.
		The Museum's remarkable assembly of over 40 rockets and missiles, from the deadly experimental types, (some made of wood and concrete) to current state-of-the-art technology, chart the history of guided missile development from the 1920's to the present time.
	www.aboutbritain.com /RoyalAirForceMuseum.htm (786 words)

	Airshow Venues - RAF Cosford
		It is also home to the Aerospace museum which is an extension to the main museum at Hendon.
		RAF Cosford Air Show is the Midlands premier air event.
		Of particular interest to enthusiasts this year will be a display by an RAF English Electric Canberra PR.9, a type about to end its service with the RAF after achieving the record of being the longest serving jet aircraft with any air force in the world.
	www.militaryairshows.co.uk /ven6.htm (601 words)

	Dambusters Remembered At RAF Museum, Hendon - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and ...
		The RAF Museum at Hendon is gearing itself up for a busy weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of the famous Dambusters Raid.
		It was on the night of May 16/17 in 1943 that Wing Commander Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron in a raid on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams in the Ruhr Valley, Germany's industrial heartland.
		Visitors can already view an example of a Lancaster bomber in the museum's extensive hangars, but this weekend they will also be treated to films, interactives and even a re-enactment that tells the story of the raid and the work of Barnes Wallis, the bomb's inventor.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART16723.html (879 words)

	RAF Museum, Cosford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This motor is not usually on public display, as it is housed in the Museum's Messerschmitt Me.163 Komet Wkr.Nr.191614.
		However, when these photographs were taken, towards the end of the year 2000, the Komet was undergoing extensive restoration, and the motor had been removed to allow this.
		The Komet, Wkr.Nr.191614 was captured by the RAF at Husum, and before coming to Cosford, spent a long time at the RPE (Rocket Propulsion Establishment) at Westcott in Berkshire.
	www.walter-rockets.i12.com /museum/cosf0.htm (325 words)

	RAF Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Avro Lancaster in the main hangar of the RAF Museum London
		The RAF Museum London at Colindale (Hendon) in north London
		Some of these aircraft include one of only two surviving Vickers Wellington left in the world and the Avro Lancaster S-Sugar which flew 135 sorties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Museum (457 words)

	RAF Museum: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum museum quick summary:
		A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches,...
		The royal air force (often abbreviated to raf) is the air force branch of the uk armed forces....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raf_museum2.htm (508 words)

	Thomas Genth's aviation page
		The weather was somehow ‘typical british’, it rained when we arrived at the RAF Museum Hendon (London) June 15th 2005.We were welcomed by a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane flying at extremely low level in front of the Museum.
		The museum is seperated into several buildings, covering different subjects of the RAF history.......
		the Kawasiki Ki 100 at the RAF Museum Hendon.
	www.thomasgenth.de /Hendone (1087 words)

	How well prepared was the British military for war in 1939?
		In addition to the 'fighting' wing of the RAF there were a number of army support squadrons, reconnaissance squadrons and torpedo bombers.
		This enabled the RAF to scramble fighter squadrons to intercept bomber formations and would allow the RAF to counter any Luftwaffe movements in the event of an attack on Northern france, the Low Countries or Britain.
		British Military Aviation in 1939 - The RAF Museum offers an account of the RAF's strength in 1939 and the manner in which the final preparations for war were conducted.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /EuropeatWar/britishreadinessforwar.htm (1194 words)

	RAF Signals Museum
		RAF Henlow is the home of the RAF Signals Museum.
		Most of the exhibits in this Museum came from the now defunct museum attached to No. 1 Radio School at RAF Locking and a generous donation of surplus equipment from the RAF Museum Reserve Collection.
		The Museum Staff has been busy over the last few weeks, re-arranging some of the display areas for new exhibits which have arrived from the RAF Museum Reserve Collection.
	www.geocities.com /raf_signals_museum/raf_signals_museum.htm (547 words)

	Raf Museum Hendon in directory.co.uk
		The Royal Air Force RAF Museum official web site contains pictures, photos and information on military aviation, including all planes and...
		RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, Greater London, NW9 5LL.
		As they were reunited at the RAF Museum in Hendon, North London, Martin, from York, said: andquot;In the RAF we were paid to take risks but with...
	www.directory.co.uk /Raf_Museum_Hendon.htm (232 words)

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