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	RAF Transport Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAF Transport Command was an RAF Command which controlled all transport aircraft of the air force.
		It was established in 1943 by the renaming of RAF Ferry Command and redesignated RAF Air Support Command in 1967.
		In addition, Transport Command was responsible for running strategic air routes which kept the RAF's overseas stations in touch with the UK.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Transport_Command (297 words)

	Encyclopedia: RAF Abingdon
		RAF Abingdon was a Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
		On 14 June 1968 a royal review was conducted at RAF Abingdon by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 50th anniversary of the RAF.
		RAF Benson continues to use Abingdon as a diversion airfield and for helicopter training.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RAF-Abingdon (844 words)

	RAF Transport Command -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was established in 1943 by the renaming of (additional info and facts about RAF Ferry Command) RAF Ferry Command and redesignated (additional info and facts about RAF Air Support Command) RAF Air Support Command in 1967.
		The largest operational challenges of this period were support of operations during the (additional info and facts about Suez Crisis) Suez Crisis and ferrying personnel and supplies out to (additional info and facts about Christmas Island) Christmas Island in order to support the UK's program of atomic bomb tests.
		Air Support Command in turn was absorbed into (additional info and facts about Strike Command) Strike Command in 1973.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/RA/RAF_Transport_Command2.htm (350 words)

	Operation Market Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Worse, RAF Transport Command reported that they were desperately short of aircraft and would be barely able to support the operation.
		The commander of the Glider Pilot Regiment had asked for a small force with gliders to land on the southern side of the bridge at Arnhem, to quickly capture it, but he was denied.
		In England, the commander of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, whose troops were slated to fly into a captured airfield, pleaded with his superiors to allow a force to fly in with gliders to assist Gen. Urquhart's trapped forces; this was also denied.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Market_Garden (5605 words)

	RAF Honington - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		No 2623 Sqn was formed in 1979 at RAF Honington, tasked with assisting with the gound defence to the station in time of war.
		RAF Honington was started in 1935 and opened in 1937 in 3 Group with 77 Squadron Audaxes and Wellesleys and 102 Squadrons Heyfords.
		RAF Honington received the Freedom of the Borough of Bury St Edmunds in 1972 recognising and fostering the close associations with the town since 1937 which had been first recognised when the town "adopted" the station in 1947.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/uk/raf_honington.htm (524 words)

	CHAPTER 13 Transport and Special Duties \| NZETC
		It was not until March 1943 that, with the rapidly increas ing demands for air transport, a separate RAF command was formed to co-ordinate and expand the various existing services.
		At each post RAF ground staff were ready to refuel and service their machines, whether it be in the sweltering heat of Bahrein or the bitter cold of Goose Bay – a monotonous role but they served the aircrews well.
		Steel planking for the runway was flown from England by transport aircraft and a strip 1200 yards in length was constructed.
	www.nzetc.org /etexts/WH2-2RAF/c13.html (7470 words)

	Avro York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Avro York was a passenger and freight transport of the 1940s, in both military and civilian applications.
		Other Yorks were provided for the use of Lord Mountbatten when Viceroy of India, the Duke of Gloucester when Governor-General of Australia, and South African leader Jan Smuts.
		In RAF Transport Command service the York was used on the England-India route.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avro_York (245 words)

	Royal Air Force Lyneham - XXIV (24) Sqadron Credits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wg Cdr H A Nash took command of the Squadron in December 1950 at Lyneham, where it was equipped with Yorks and Hastings.
		In March the AOC in C Transport Command was taken on a tour of the Far East in York MN100, while 6 of the 9 route flights undertaken went to Fayid in Egypt.
		A new Squadron Commander, Sqn Ldr J L Kerr RAF, arrived in October at the start of ‘Operation Flow’, in which the Middle East was supplied by air for a month.
	www.lyneham.raf.mod.uk /24sqn/html/history/narratedhistory_51_to_56.htm (2133 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aircraft involved flew a total distance of some 47,500,000 miles (76,452,599 km) in 375,849 sorties, amassing a total flying time of 361,422 flying hours.
		Mar-Apr 1961 - Aircraft of Transport Command and Air Forces Middle East airdrop supplies to famine- stricken people in Kenya.
		8 Nov 1967 - In its largest transport operation since the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, 50 RAF transport aircraft are used in the withdrawal of troops from Aden in Yemen.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/line1960-69.html (952 words)

	Air Transport Command
		Some flew military transport routes in the military markings of the Air Transport Command (ATC), and others flew commercial routes assigned by the government in civilian markings.
		The oldest route under the ATC command was Pan American's Africa Service that stretched from Bathurst, Gambia to Cairo, Egypt.
		The DC-3 converted to a military transport (C-47, 53 etc.) was one of the four pieces of equipment that General Eisenhower said had one the war.
	www.dc3history.org /air_transport_cmd.htm (814 words)

	Royal Air Force Shawbury Station Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Horsas were built in Birmingham and many were assembled and tested at the Shropshire airfields at RAF Cosford, Shawbury, Tilstock, Peplow and Sleap before being delivered to Glider Pilot Regiment squadrons in the South of England.
		In June 2001, RAF Shawbury offered hangar space for the construction of the Horsa aircraft by a team of around 15 volunteers living in the local area.
		The President is the incumbent Station Commander at RAF Shawbury and the Trustees are all serving or retired officers with close connections to the RAF and airborne regiments.
	www.shawbury.raf.mod.uk /assaultglider.html (1089 words)

	The Ultimate Royal Air Force Print Collection
		The central feature of the memorial is a statue of an RAF pilot looking out over the sea towards France from whence the enemy came during the Battle of Britain.
		RAF Hastings drop men of 3 PARA battalion on the Egyptian airfield of El Gamil as part of the Airborne element of Operation "Musketeer", (Anglo-French plan to rte-open the Suez Canal after its closure by Egyptian President Nasser).
		Carried to their target by 18 Valetta's and 9 Hastings of RAF Transport Command, and supported by Air strikes by Fleet Air Arm Sea Venom's and Seahawks they quickly succeeded in securing their objective.
	www.aviationprints.co.uk /raf.htm (1422 words)

	RAF MAURIPUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to this, using the main apron and airfield facilities were all types of military aircraft (British and foreign); RAF Transport Command Yorks and Dakotas, as well as the civil airlines - BOAC Lancastrians, KLM Skymasters, and aircraft from Air France and other airlines trying to re-establish themselves in a peacetime role.
		When the new country of Pakistan was established in 1947, the RAF maintained its presence, sharing facilities at Mauripur with the then Royal Pakistan Air Force.
		It is now known as PAF Base Masroor, re-named in memory of one of its Commanders, Air Commodore Masroor Hosain, who was killed in a tragic bird-strike whilst flying from the base.
	rafmauripur.org.uk /raf_mauripur.htm (667 words)

	Bermuda's Royal Navy base and Dockyard until closure
		The anomaly in the command structure referred to in 1933 was rectified when this part of the Royal Navy Dockyard was transferred to the FAA and given this name.
		The RAF handed operations over to the Royal Navy on 3rd September, 1939-co-incidental with the re-location to Boaz Island (and the same day volunteer units were mobilized in preparation for declaration of war on 8 September).
		Although RAF Transport Command was soon flying many Catalina maritime patrol aircraft through the colony at RAF Darrell's Island, the FAA provided the only aerial patrols of the surrounding Atlantic until establishment of a US Naval Kingfisher unit on the colony in 1941.
	bermuda-online.org /rnd2.htm (3093 words)

	Ferry Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ferry Command was established early in WWII to improve aircraft deliveries to Britain from US factories, since surface shipping was too slow and the ships themselves were needed for other cargoes.
		At the time, transatlantic flight was in its infancy, yet knowledgeable observers, believing such a scheme to be impossible, were proved wrong.
		The CP Air Services Department, established in July 1940, and its successors, the Royal Air Force Ferry Command and No 45 Group of RAF Transport Command, eventually delivered more than 900 warplanes - losing only about 100 - and paved the way for mass postwar transatlantic air travel.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0002777 (173 words)

	Royal Air Force Fighter Pilots
		Remaining with the RAF after WWII and in accordance with peacetime rules for a much smaller Air Force he was reduced in rank first to Squadron Leader and then to Flight Lieutenant in 1948.
		Joining the RAF in 1940 he was posted in April 1941 to 83 Sqn at Scampton flying Hampdens and Manchesters, joining OTU as an instructor on Wellingtons in March 1942.
		Joining the RAF in 1936, Billy Drake flew Hurricanes in France at the outbreak of war, seeing action during the spring of 1940, and scoring his first victory in May. After being wounded he was swoon back in the fray with 421 Flight and by the end of 1940 his tally had reached 4.
	www.armynavyairforce.co.uk /fighter_pilots.htm (4821 words)

	Splashdown on the Equator
		The information I asked from official sources was slow in coming and in some instances non existent, and the records office of the Royal Air Force at RAF Innsworth were apologetic regarding the lack of information but did provide me with my service record and this information was scant to say the least.
		I was merely a passenger on a transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force that crashed into the sea for reasons not known.
		I have since found three other passengers from that aircraft accident via a plea by the Daily Mail ’missing and found’ column and their stories are also very interesting and that there is some bitterness relating to this accident from these guys.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /RRGP/Equator.htm (5002 words)

	The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Croydon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The terminal building, the booking hall within it with its gallery balustrated in the geometrical design typical of the period, as well as the Aerodrome hotel, all were built in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 1930s.
		At the outbreak of war, the areodrome was used as a Fighter Command station remaining in military hands until March 1946.
		RAF Croydon was home to a number Squadrons during the Battle of Britain, being so close to London, was bombed several times by the enemy.
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /airfields/croydon.html (491 words)

	Royal Air Force Lyneham - XXIV (24) Sqadron Credits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The RAF Transport Command was formed in March and the Squadron was placed under its control.
		The Squadron’s role of communications, transport and VIP flying was not changed in any way at this time.
		Wing Commander Collins suggested that the York should be called ‘Ascalon’ - this being the name of the sword with which St George had beheaded the Dragon.
	www.lyneham.raf.mod.uk /24sqn/html/history/narratedhistory_43_to_45.htm (2435 words)

	Ipswich Airport History
		The Prince flew in with a RAF fighter escort and went to the aero club house to remove his flying kit before performing the opening ceremony.
		These aircraft, together with 2 rare RAF Fairey Barracudas which joined the squadron on 18th March 1944, flew from Ipswich for the remainder of the war providing target facilities for the Navy at Harwich.
		This RAF aircraft, based at RAF Wittering, performed a typical display before landing to be refuelled from a RAF tanker, which had arrived at the airport by Road.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /nick.neale/ravenswood/airport_history/index.htm (4522 words)

	Comet 4 Variants de Havilland Comet
		In 1960 there were rumours in the press that de Havilland was to cease production of the Comet because of lack of orders.
		The Comet was not abandoned but de Havilland were now heavily involved in the DH 121 'second generation' of short - medium haul passenger jet transports.
		However in January 1963 Hawker Siddeley announced that the Ministry of Aviation had placed an order for a Comet Mk.4C for delivery in the autumn of that year.
	www.dlyoung.freeserve.co.uk /DH106/comet_4var.htm (2572 words)

	The Royal Air Force - Squadron Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Formed officially at Ismailia, Egypt on 24 March 1915 from an RFC detachment in the region, No. 30 Squadron spent several months in a state of flux before achieving full squadron status by the end of the year.
		Reformed at Oakington in late 1947, as part of RAF Transport Command, the unit's Dakotas took part in the Berlin Airlift before being re-equipped with Valettas and moving to Abingdon in November 1950.
		Having disbanded as part of the overall drawdown of RAF forces in the Middle East in 1967, No. 30 Squadron was reformed yet again at Fairford in June 1968 as a Hercules transport squadron, moving to its current base at Lyneham in 1971.
	www.raf.mod.uk /squadrons/h30.html (562 words)

	Biography of Reg Miles, Ex Apprentice No 1 S.of T.T., R.A.F., Halton 39th Entry 34 - 67 M.U.s - 27 A/S ...
		A friend worked for the same place and we both rode the Smith's bikes, very distinctive they were, painted dark red with a large panel under the cross bar with the company logo on it and either side of the back wheel large canvas bags to hold the newspapers.
		RAF Halton still is a training station for the engine, airframe, and all other bits and pieces of the aircraft.
		R.A.F Halton was at one time a country residence owned by the Rothchild family whether they gave it to the R.A.F I don't know but the "house" was used for the officer's mess and the stables were allocated to the apprentices for a "hobby shop".
	members.aol.com /famjustin/Milesbio.html (1175 words)

	Encyclopedia: RAF Transport Command
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RAF-Transport-Command (325 words)

	RAF Driffield - Introduction
		Steve’s collection is housed at the Defence Fire Fighting Training School at former RAF Manston and apart from a number of civilian appliances contains a broad selection of former RAF vehicles.
		Although there are plans to create a new display hall at the RAF Museum Cosford, I would argue that it would be beneficial to create an additional museum — dedicated to protect the oversized aircraft of the RAF Transport Command — there being additional airframes available to make this a viable proposition.
		Although the HLF have financed the construction of display halls at the RAF Museum, IWM Duxford, Yorkshire Air Museum and the Brooklands Air Museum, there are many other sites in need of a purpose build display hall.
	www.driffieldaerodrome.co.uk /heritage/wish-list/wish-list.htm (1604 words)

	HGV TRUCK PHOTOGRAPHS, RAF TRANSPORT DRIVERS
		Drivers are more often individuals who dislike the confines of office or factory life, so they are far from Borg and the opposite of automaton in that respect, yet there is a kinship, but only in this ability which, is like an art and especially needed when the road conditions are bad.
		Transport Cafe's are fewer than years ago; little chef and the like have swallowed many good Transport Cafes and Truck Stops.
		The small businessman with his transport cafe has all to often Disappeared from the roadside, now many mobile services are appearing, is this a new trend?
	www.transportcafe.co.uk /britain10.html (599 words)

	Story of last flight
		The number of accidents must be put down to generally lower standards in the aviation industry at the time, use by marginal operators with poor or non existent service facilities, inexperienced crews, bad landing grounds, operation in atrocious weather conditions, and statistically, the large number of hours flown by the type.
		It was built in Santa Monica in 1943 and used by the RAF until demobbed in 1946 and sold to Railway Air Services, the airline arm of the railway companies before nationalisation, who used it for passenger work.
		Although the Captain, as 'pilot in command' was ultimately responsible for the safety of the plane which descended below a safe height in low cloud, and hit a hill, you may think he had a raw deal.
	www.farvis.com /ventnor2.htm (6716 words)

	Blackburn Beverley
		Hot weather trials in Tripoli were followed by cold weather trials in Canada, and on 12 March 1956 the first Beverley was delivered to No.47 Squadron RAF Transport Command at Abingdon.
		In a (hopefully) unique display of neglect and incompetence, the aircraft was allowed to deteriorate to such a state that in 1990 it had to be cut up for scap.
		However, in the summer of 2003 this museum was forced to close down, and on the weekend on May 22-23 2004 the last complete Beverley was dismantled and transported to Fort Paull Museum to the east of Kingston-upon-Hull.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /types/uk/blackburn/beverley/Beverley.htm (2053 words)

	Lockheed B-34 Ventura -- Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		IIAs that had been requisitioned by the Navy from RAF contracts.
		RAF serials retained for the 387 Ventura GR.
		Some of the RAF aircraft were later modified for transport duty with No. 299 Squadron of RAF Transport Command as the Ventura C. Mk.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b034-04.html (1456 words)

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