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Sentence Examples I am part of a team of flying instructors and we teach RAF pilots how to fly Nimrods, a maritime patrol aircraft. The unladen Viking can be underslung and airlifted by an RAF Chinook helicopter. An RAF helicopter assisted the rescue, lifting both the climbers and team members to the bottom of the valley. Two enemy aircraft were downed, the second being an RAF Typhoon shot down near Rostock on 4 May. The RAF took care of our billeting and put us up with local British residents. About 300 West Indians also enlisted in the RAF for aircrew duties and subsequently about 5,500 volunteered for ground duties. We were filming the last sunset of the last century from Britain's most northerly RAF base, Saxa Vord. Fighters, transport planes, bombers and helicopters will fill the skies over RAF Fairford in the run-up to the air show this weekend. Three people were hurt yesterday when a civilian plane crashed while taking off from an RAF airfield. Instead, an RAF rescue helicopter was scrambled from Chivenor in Devon and she was winched up from the beach and flown to Withybush hospital. Instead the 30-year-old woman from Whitby had to be airlifted to hospital by a team from RAF Leconfield who winched her to safety. More than 100 veteran airmen, trainee pilots and base officials gathered at RAF Church Fenton on Saturday to swap stories about the station. Mr Boyack, 69, has worked for ex-service personnel and the local community since he retired from the RAF as a wing commander 15 years ago. The first requirement is for instruction in air-to-ground liaison in directing the US Air Force and the RAF to their targets. It was while on a sailing course with the man who ran bobsleighing for the RAF that she first stumbled upon winter sports. Fallows does not expect any other teams to withdraw from the competition as a result of Army or RAF call ups. Lincoln is a city that's come up in the world since last I gave it close inspection, in my RAF days forty years ago. At any time of the day or night, a tall RAF corporal would be seen helping to carry a stretcher containing an injured soldier into the tent. He had a commission in the RAF and on leaving in 1990 he joined the Territorial Army. Because the museum is based on an old RAF airfield, it has a suitable landing strip and hangars big enough to house the aircraft. Show More Sentences He was bounced by an enemy fighter and the tail of his plane was shot up, but he escaped with his life, and landed back at RAF Hornchurch. The people of Opmeer will later unveil a memorial to the RAF crew which includes part of the Stirling's wreckage. Placed at forward fields in France, the Stukas surely attracted the attentions of RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes. Duties included sending and receiving classified and unclassified signal information to different RAF stations around the world. About 1,000 paras, infantry and support troops from the 16 Air Assault Brigade left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire early yesterday for the Gulf. Eventually the driver turned up to find his car taped off and surrounded by police and RAF personnel. The science and technology hothouse is built on land that was once part of RAF Martlesham Heath. He reached Kuala Lumpur and later arrived in Singapore, attached to RAF Changi and RAF Selectar. Everyone seems to expect swingeing personnel cuts and the disappearance of several army regiments and possibly either ships or RAF units. Pete never settled after coming out of the RAF and could not accept the way civvies lived. An RAF veteran who introduced himself as 'not a peacemonger' talked about his sons in the Black Watch. This was the dramatic moment when an injured walker from the York area was winched from an icy mountainside by an RAF helicopter. Three coachloads of anti-war protesters were turned around at Lechlade while trying to get to the RAF base last March. The majority of RAF cadets who graduated were named sergeant pilots, and maybe six or eight were given officer rank of pilot officer. Mark Bowden, 21, has successfully completed six months training for an initial pilot officer qualification at RAF Cranwell in Lancashire. He was at the base preparing to fly as an RAF aircraft passenger in a Queen's Golden Jubilee military tattoo. We see the low-flying fighter-bombers of the RAF, and in their shadow the advancing infantry. An RAF helicopter and a police spotter aircraft were scrambled, and 90 rescuers scoured the moor near Keld, County Durham. The aeronautical rescue co-ordination centre at RAF Kinloss immediately scrambled a helicopter. A rescue helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth was scrambled to aid lifeboat crews in the four-hour search. Show More Sentences The Ministry of Defence confirmed an RAF Tornado F3 fighter would have been scrambled if the plane had been hijacked. I later became a test pilot for the RAF and on leaving the service I started to teach art. We planned to marry, but a week before the wedding she received a telegram saying that her brother, an RAF flying ace, had been shot down. Bridlington coastguard, the resort's inshore lifeboat and a helicopter from RAF Leconfield carried out a search yesterday morning. Reports of possible trouble on a BA flight from Baltimore to London led to the RAF scrambling two fighter interceptors to escort the plane home. At first light yesterday a Sea King helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth was sent out to rescue the crew. Paramedics had to call out an RAF helicopter to fly a seriously ill baby 200 miles from Rochdale to an intensive care bed in London. At the time McGee, an RAF flight lieutenant in Wiltshire, didn't think about the cause. As the countdown to war continues Britain can be expected to contribute at least 12,000 troops as well as RAF, Navy and Special Forces units. It will enter the estuary at about noon and arrive in Hull two hours later, with a fly-past from RAF Tucano aircraft, from Linton-on-Ouse. A ceremonial fly-past was made by an RAF Chinook helicopter from RAF Odiham. As daylight broke, fighter planes from the RAF gave cover against a possible attack by the Luftwaffe. The former RAF wireless operator developed sores while on marching duty that became gangrenous, causing his legs to be amputated. Mr McGuire had been taking a group of RAF cadets out on a day trip to Bury when he returned to his car and discovered the parking ticket. A dedication ceremony was conducted by the station chaplain at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Squadron Leader Eleanor Rance. Bill's demob papers from the RAF were also discovered intact in the case, which had been home to a family of mice. There was gridlock on some roads when 200,000 people converged on RAF Fairford for last summer's two-day event. Five aircraft engineers from RAF Lyneham arrived home after a two-week project to help poor communities in Africa. The cruise liner diverted from its course to cut down the flying time of the helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth. The crack RAF team was forced to call off its acrobatics because the aircraft violated an eight-mile exclusion zone needed for the performance. Show More Sentences An air exclusion zone will be put in force over the hotel with fighters on standby at nearby RAF Leuchars in Fife. I served in the Home Guard in the Blitz, and then for four years in the RAF, in which I survived 60 operational sorties in bomber aircraft. In May 1963, as a 23-year-old wife of a serving RAF policeman, I accompanied my husband on an overseas posting to Cyprus. A further 126 awards for gallantry were won by Australian members of the RAF, including a Victoria Cross awarded to Group Captain Hughie Edwards. The RAF team cancelled their display due to safety fears, leaving thousands of spectators angry and disappointed. The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan. The area is littered with unexploded bombs used in target practice by the RAF during the Second World War. Losses were heavy and the RAAF squadrons were supplemented by RAF Hudsons flown from India. That meant that the bombers were RAF and we were being attacked by Japanese fighters. The Kemble Air Day brought the best examples of vintage jets and warbirds together at one airfield along with modern RAF aircraft. Nine of the squadron pilots became aces, and five were awarded the RAF Distinguished Flying Cross. Among the highlights expected will be the Red Arrows themselves and RAF jet fighters, including the Tornado and the Harrier Jump-Jet. It was also used by the RAF for airfield defence, making it a fitting acquisition for the Yorkshire Air Museum. American missions and RAF operations continued in support of the beachhead. Although the no-fly zones will be protected by radar and RAF interceptors based at Leuchars, they are well away from the usual civilian air routes. In 1918, Harris became a squadron leader in the newly formed RAF, and during the following two decades, he served in a number of locations around the British Empire. The Second World War interrupted his studies still further when at the age of 18 he was called into the RAF, where he would stay for seven-and-a-half years. He enlisted in the RAF in 1922 as an aircraftman, but was soon exposed. This year the show is aiming to bring the best vintage jets and warbirds together on display alongside more modern RAF types and the Red Arrows themselves. A former aircraft engineer, Sayer used the wind tunnel at RAF Farnborough to come up with a design that promised high-speed stability as well as low drag. Show More Sentences And within the next few days the 26-year-old flight lieutenant from RAF Lyneham will be flying to the Gulf as part of the British military build up. A Spitfire propeller has been restored and mounted on a cairn of Cornish granite and will be displayed inside the entrance of RAF Portreath in Cornwall next month. John was born in South London and trained as a quantity surveyor before doing his National Service with the RAF as a radar operator at RAF Sennen in Cornwall. The RAF has also agreed to stage a fly-past in a Sea King helicopter. As part of the commemoration, the York branch of the Royal Air Force Association also staged a parade and there was a fly-past of nine Tucano aircraft from RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Aircraft from RAF Linton-on-Ouse are to conduct a fly-past at the funeral of a York-born man as a tribute to his devoted work at the Yorkshire Air Museum. Recruited to the Special Operations Executive, she requests to be sent to France as an undercover agent to trace her RAF pilot lover, shot down on a mission. The airmen of RAF 100 Squadron, based at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, took Terence under their wing and with them he has travelled the world and beyond. He was posted directly to RAF Lyneham to join the Hercules fleet. The quiet was shattered again as two RAF jets came winging across, not so low as to shake the ground, but loud enough to bring any conversation to a halt for a while. The Crown Prince in waiting, Muqrin, is also a former fighter pilot and trained at RAF Cranwell. The Red Arrows aerobatic team had to take emergency action to avoid a tragedy when a microlight aircraft strayed into its airspace at an Airshow, the RAF revealed today. When the RAF wanted reliable, soldier-proof helicopters, they bought Westland-built Sikorskys. Weather permitting, there will then be an RAF flypast and balcony appearance. Police were dispatched to the scene and an RAF helicopter was scrambled to airlift him to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness where he was being treated last night. Ian Macdonald became Professor of Midwifery in Glasgow in 1954 and used his elementary knowledge of radar, from his RAF days, to investigate ultrasonics as a diagnostic tool. Before I left the hospital I was grieved to learn that Nesbit, only recently transferred to us from the RAF, had been shot down and killed over Anzio. A Royal Navy Pilot sits inside a Lynx helicopter at RAF Odiham air base today ahead of a rehearsal for a Diamond Jubilee flypast. Nine RAF personnel and one soldier died when their Hercules transport plane was hit by ground-to-air fire, causing an explosion in one of its fuel tanks. William returned to his RAF base on Anglesey yesterday when his paternity leave came to an end. Show More Sentences A group captain from the RAF visited the Tartar to complain, was bombed by the Germans, and instantly changed his mind about shooting first and asking questions later. If you are a plane-spotter or air force groupie, you will love staying a mere five minutes from RAF Kinloss, where you can see the planes taking off. At the start of the deployment, HMS Invincible will embark both FA2 Sea Harrier fighters and RAF Ground attack aircraft as well as her Sea King helicopters. A second attempt by the RAF on the same day also failed when the four-and-a-half ton cross crushed a metal cone installed in a bid to guide the cross into position. Two dogs used to provide extra security for the prince at his RAF base were 'euthanised' days after he left the role. Thelma, who is 46, has swapped her smart business suit for desert battledress and is now waiting at RAF Lyneham for the orders that will send her to the Gulf. From the fall of France in May 1940 the role of the RAF was essentially defensive, save for raids on enemy airfields and occasional bombing attacks to boost morale. A doctor of my acquaintance did not realise that he was colour-blind until he attempted to fail aircraft pilots in the RAF on colour vision tests. In the case of RAF Waddington, this was the City of Lincoln, a historic city with a magnificent cathedral dominating the scenery for miles around. The compensation order was made after she breached the security fences of RAF Leeming in March last year, and for a similar failed attempt on Menwith Hill. Two lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, an RAF Hercules plane and two Navy war ships spent 30 hours scouring the seas and coast but his body was never found. Police were dispatched to the scene and an RAF helicopter was scrambled to airlift him to Raigmore Hospital where he was being treated last night. And last week the idea of positioning it using an RAF Chinook was abandoned when bad weather and the sheer unwieldiness of the cargo defeated the airlift. During WW2 he was a pilot officer in the photographic branch of the RAF which took him to Egypt and gave him the opportunity to visit the tombs there. The crash triggered emergency beacons both in the aircraft and on the men, and helicopters from RAF Leconfield and RAF Wattisham were immediately scrambled. This was a superb demonstration of the RAF pilot's skill, holding a large helicopter in a hover next to a cliff face in the dark while winching the casualty on board. The dedication coincided with the 60th anniversary of the formation of the two French squadrons, who made RAF Elvington unique among the airbases of Bomber Command. Former airfields in the area include RAF Hooton Park and Bidston Aerodrome. There were two RAF stations on the loch, RAF Wig Bay operating from Wig Bay near Kirkcolm and RAF Stranraer operating from the town. He enlisted with the RAF on the 7th September 1942 and volunteered for aircrew but failed on his eye sight. Show More Sentences Jeschonnek proposed large bombing attacks so that responding RAF fighters could be shot down. The UK's Ministry of Defence has a radar station installed on the point and controlled from nearby RAF Hartland Point. A long barrow site believed to be from the Beaker people was flattened to make way for RAF Charmy Down. Destroying RAF Fighter Command would allow the Germans to gain control of the skies over the invasion area. Initially the Luftwaffe concentrated on destroying the RAF on the ground and in the air. When the RAF assigned Dennis a post in Bahrain in early 1965, Barrett became the band's frontman. However, the balance of bomb tonnage being dropped shifted greatly in favour of the RAF as Bomber Command gained in strength. The RAF also provided air cover, denying the Luftwaffe an opportunity to attack the shipping. The Germans lost around 100 aircraft confirmed destroyed, and the RAF 106 fighters. Calais was within the range of RAF aircraft based in Britain and the air battle began to escalate. The RAF continued to take a heavy toll on the German bombers throughout the week. On 13 June, the RAF made a maximum effort to help the French armies that had been broken through on the Marne. While in the RAF he was granted occasional spells of leave to carry on his work with the ballet. Fighter Command squadrons from RAF Tangmere were also available for Cherbourg and Coastal Command prepared to escort returning ships. In England RAF Northolt, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Oakley were the main locations. A new factory was built on the site, the former RAF Hethel bomber base, and the old runways were converted into a testing facility. Hitler ordered that a period of bad weather should be chosen, when the bulk of the RAF would be grounded. In April 1941, the Royal Navy and the RAF devised Operation Fuller, a plan for combined operations against the ships in Brest should they sortie. Under Clementi's tenure, Kai Tak Airport entered operation as RAF Kai Tak and several aviation clubs. Preparations, including overcoming the RAF, were to be in place by mid August. Show More Sentences It was supposed that Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and the Royal Navy could not operate under conditions of German air superiority. The change in emphasis of the bombing from RAF bases to bombing London, however, turned Adlerangriff into a strategic bombing operation. Others argue the Luftwaffe achieved little in the air battle and the RAF was not on the verge of collapse, as often claimed. Others have said that it was unlikely the Luftwaffe would ever be able to destroy RAF Fighter Command. If British losses became severe, the RAF could simply have withdrawn northward and regrouped. Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. However, RAF intelligence at the time claimed that the Allies had shot down 96 German aircraft, thus winning a major victory. Many of the German radar stations on the French coast were destroyed by the RAF in preparation for the landings. As RAF Manston, the aerodrome played an important role in the Second World War. The Construction Industry Training Board is based on the former airfield of RAF Bircham Newton. The British Concorde prototype made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969, five weeks after the French test flight. The RAF underwent rapid expansion prior to and during the Second World War. Many individual personnel from these countries, and exiles from occupied Europe, also served with RAF squadrons. Both the RAF and Luftwaffe struggled to replace manpower losses, though the Germans had larger reserves of trained aircrew. In World War II RAF Exeter was an important RAF Fighter Command airfield during the Battle of Britain. The 98th TCS remained at Exeter until 7 August when it began operating from RAF Ramsbury. In 1928, four Supermarine Southampton flying boats of the RAF Far East flight arrived in Melbourne, Australia. This was made up of British men of the 77th HAA, 3rd Kings Own Hussars and some RAF volunteers. During the Second World War an airfield, RAF Millom, was developed on flat coastal land at Haverigg. The largest RAF effort during the war was the strategic bombing campaign against Germany by Bomber Command. Show More Sentences Nearby Hucknall was targeted by bombers as it had an RAF base, a Rolls Royce engineering facility and numerous coal mines. In September 1965 a RAF De Havilland Chipmunk flew into the hill in cloud, without serious injury to the crew. It is argued that persisting with attacks on RAF airfields might have won air superiority for the Luftwaffe. A new administration building and a protected, hardened Nuclear Reporting bunker was built at RAF Carlisle. My Lords, if an understrapper from a television company talks to an understrapper of the RAF, you do not expect air marshals to jump. Llanberis Mountain Rescue went to his aid and he was airlifted to hospital by an RAF helicopter. After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters. In June 1948 the RAF commenced Operation Firedog against Malayan terrorists during the Malayan Emergency. Swansea Coastguard scrambled a Rescue helicopter from RAF Chivenor and sent Watchet and Minehead Coastguard rescue teams to the scene. Operations continued for the next 12 years until 1960 with aircraft flying out of RAF Tengah and RAF Butterworth. The Team, headed up by Wing Commander Jason Appleton, travels the UK on a whistle-stop journey around the life of RAF personnel. An RAF helicopter from Kinloss was scrambled to airlift the pair from the cliff before winching the fire officer to safety too. Younger brother Paul is the senior Hawk operator for a training group and RAF Valley's Operations Wing commander. Shortly after Gordon Brown ordered two new aircraft carriers, I asked a very senior RAF officer what he proposed should be done with them. Senior Aircraftswoman Chrystie MacLeod, a reservist with the RAF, will go to the Kandahar Airbase in January to work with US forces. Senior aircraftswoman Claire McGee, 21, swopped Litherland for a life in the RAF and has been in Iraq since June. The RAF played a minor role in the Korean War, with flying boats taking part. The general neglect of the RAF until the late spurt in 1938 had left sparse resources to build defences. The RAF and Royal Navy's Westland Sea King fleets, after over 30 years of service, were retired. The 2012 National Eisteddfod will take place on the former RAF airfield at Llandow in the Vale of Glamorgan. Show More Sentences Elaine West became the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal in the RAF in August. Although night air defence was causing greater concern before the war, it was not at the forefront of RAF planning. In the last days of the battle, the bombers became lures in an attempt to draw the RAF into combat with German fighters. The event was in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund and Glenbrae has created special scarves and sweaters for the charity, which are now on sale. It was originally known as the Historic Aircraft Flight and was based for a short time at Biggin Hill until moving to RAF North Weald. The basing of US F-35s at RAF Lakenheath confirms the American military presence in the UK for the foreseeable future. Medical teams rushed to RAF Scampton, the base of the Red Arrows, after the incident at about 11am yesterday. Serco has successfully rebid its RAF Northolt MAC, providing aviation and engineering facilities and logistics support at this major RAF airport. He attended specialist entrant and re-entrant officer training in 2004 and at RAF College in Cranwell. Nearly the entire transport fleet now resides at the hub of RAF Brize Norton, following the closure of RAF Lyneham. The RAF still operates a number of overseas bases to support global operations. Our parent unit 121 Squadron RAF was also operational, flying spitfires at the time of the Battle of Britain. Roman Savin and Vitaliy Karpenko were plucked from a liferaft by an RAF helicopter crew early on Sunday. Other officers also train at RAF Cranwell, but on different courses, such as those for professionally qualified officers. In fact, the Luftwaffe pilot had landed at RAF Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, home to the RAF's Air Gunnery School. I started sprinting for the RAF and former British bobsledder Steve McFall was watching. Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury. The titles and insignia of other ranks in the RAF were based on that of the Army, with some alterations in terminology. To celebrate, an RAF Sea King helicopter and other lifeboats are on their way for a seafront training exercise. Prince William's days as RAF Sea King pilot are numbered following the announcement that search and rescue services to be privatised. Show More Sentences An important part of the work of the RAF is to support the British Army by ferrying troops and equipment at the battlefield. A HUGE botch-up has left the RAF with eight Chinook helicopters worth pounds 259million they cannot use. The 100 Commandos were due to leave RAF Brize Norton, Oxon, as the first of 1,700 British troops to join the war on terrorism. More routine strategic airlift transport tasks are carried out by the Airbus A330 MRTT, known as the Voyager in RAF service. He arrived home after flying to RAF Brize Norton on Wednesday evening, weary from a gruelling 24-hour journey. A total of 14 Voyagers are due to form the fleet, with 9 allocated to sole RAF use. The battle manager from RAF Boulmer is one of seven disabled people who are navigating the British coastline in a fleet of microlight aircraft. This raid was significant, as 63 German fighters were sent with the bombers, indicating the growing effectiveness of RAF night fighter defences. From early years as an RAF child to flat-sharing with Jennifer Saunders and her outspoken views on sizeism. In 1946 the British military moved to the Suez Canal Zone where we had many RAF and Army bases. The RAF wanted it done quickly so we worked all night, fitting cables to mock-ups of Lancaster bombers. In April 2012, the sonic boom from two RAF Typhoons rattled windows, shook walls and set off car alarms in Coventry and Warwickshire. Amanda Coates' dad Brian was an RAF engineer who stripped plane engines which had flown through mushroom clouds. I was a chargehand in a plastics factory at 17, before joining the RAF at 18 to be in Air Traffic Control. Three soldiers from RAF St Athan ran for cover when the 22-year-old Parachute Regiment squaddie reportedly fired warning shots. The 36-year-old will attempt the squat thrust challenge before a huge crowd at the International Air Tattoo at RAF Cottesmore in Leicestershire. The RAF Ensign is flown from the flagstaff on every RAF station during daylight hours. A former RAF officer travelled 395 miles to Cleckheaton from Cornwall to seek out a new career on civvy street as a domestic gas engineer. Initially, they were equipped with seven Folland Gnat trainers inherited from the RAF Yellowjacks display team. In November and December 1940, the Luftwaffe flew 9,000 sorties against British targets and RAF night fighters claimed only six shot down. Show More Sentences Neena Gill, a West Midlands MEP, said a military training supersite should be built at RAF Cosford. It's a far cry from her early career as a cryptographer with the RAF in Cyprus, a posting that saw her in the middle of shoot-outs. I was among military personnel flying from Stansted to Egypt via Valetta and Tobruk in an Avro-York RAF Troop Carrier. An RAF parachutist and a spectator have been taken to hospital after they collided, police said. In 1940, the RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe in a struggle for control of the skies in the Battle of Britain. The intention was to incapacitate the RAF so much that the UK would feel open to air attack, and would begin peace negotiations. His survival suit kept him alive and his personal locator beacon helped an RAF rescue helicopter locate him. He is leaving the Army at the end of the month but hopes to join the RAF as groundcrew. Destruction of the RAF was the first priority, and invasion would be a last resort. Today six Dominies flew in formation out of RAF Cranwell then carried out final flypasts over the base to mark the end of its service. An RAF Tornado GR4 comes into land through the heat haze, at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The Bf 109, unlike the Stuka, could fight on equal terms with RAF fighters after releasing its ordnance. By summer 1940, there were about 9,000 pilots in the RAF to man about 5,000 aircraft, most of which were bombers. He even took paternity leave from his role as an RAF rescue pilot. After the war Valerie married Peter Middleton, a wartime RAF flying ace. We would also like to contact a Dennis Power at RAF St Eval, mid-1950s, last known address Caerphilly. Close to 70 people died in the blast in the underground munitions storage depot at RAF Fauld. The 15-year-old trainee electrician had been killed during the accidental explosion at RAF Fauld in 1944, which claimed 90 lives. The air offensive against the RAF and British industry failed to have the desired effect. There is an officer's forage cap, a pocket from an RAF tunic with a Waterman pen still clipped inside and a silk flying glove. Show More Sentences During the Second World War, Yorkshire became an important base for RAF Bomber Command and brought the county into the cutting edge of the war. Initial Luftwaffe estimates were that it would take four days to defeat the RAF Fighter Command in southern England. The Luftwaffe consistently varied its tactics in its attempts to break through the RAF defences. In January 1923, having passed the RAF entrance examination with a high mark, Whittle reported to RAF Halton as an Aircraft Apprentice. Undeterred, he applied again under an assumed name and presented himself as a candidate at the No 2 School of Technical Training RAF Cranwell. This lack of leadership and solid intelligence meant the Germans did not adopt consistent strategy, even when the RAF had its back to the wall. He was so impressed that in 1926 he recommended Whittle for officer training at RAF College Cranwell. Front line RAF pilots were acutely aware of the inherent deficiencies of their own tactics. In 1928, RAF College Cranwell cadet Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbojet to his superiors. The RAF night bombing campaign against military objectives in German towns began on 11 May. From 4 July the RAF achieved some successes with raids on Channel ports, anticipating the build up for an invasion. The Tucano entered service with the RAF with 7 FTS in December 1989 at RAF Church Fenton. The RAF's first heavy bomber, the Short Stirling, entered service at RAF Leeming with 7 Sqn. Avro built around 4,500 Ansons at its RAF Yeadon shadow factory, and around 700 Lancasters. The number of pilots in RAF Fighter Command increased during July, August and September. Throughout the battle, the RAF had more fighter pilots available than the Luftwaffe. He states that between 8 and 18 August 154 RAF pilots were killed, severely wounded, or missing, while only 63 new pilots were trained. On 7 September RAF aircraft losses fell below British production and remained so until the end of the war. The RAF anticipated attacks on airfields and 11 Group rose to meet them, in greater numbers than the Luftwaffe expected. On 15 September, two massive waves of German attacks were decisively repulsed by the RAF by deploying every aircraft in 11 Group. Show More Sentences In the Second World War, as RAF Ringway, it was a base for the Royal Air Force. Throughout the battle, the Germans greatly underestimated the size of the RAF and the scale of British aircraft production. Stansted Airport was RAF Stansted Mountfitchet, home to the 344th Bombardment Group. Thereafter, the Luftwaffe gradually decreased daylight operations in favour of nocturnal attacks, to avoid RAF defences. From the 1950s, RAF Wyton was an important reconnaissance base for the RAF, mainly 543 Sqn. One of the four component radars for the BMEWS is based at RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. Bernard Matthews Farms has a large turkey farm on the former RAF Attlebridge in Weston Longville. During the 1980s nuclear armed USAF Ground Launched Cruise Missiles were deployed at RAF Greenham Common and RAF Molesworth. Most of the scientific staff were dropped off at Fremantle, and returned to Britain on RAF Transport Command aircraft. Even RAF Luqa on Malta was extremely crowded with RAF Bomber Command aircraft. The RAF Regiment is based at RAF Honington, between the A1088 and A134, south of Thetford, partly in Fakenham Magna. Several RAF airfields and sites were also established at Sullom Voe and several lighthouses suffered enemy air attacks. After the war, the United Kingdom expanded its military presence, building RAF Mount Pleasant and increasing the size of its garrison. The road network was also made more extensive, and the construction of RAF Mount Pleasant allowed access to long haul flights. The main British military facility in the region is at RAF Mount Pleasant and the adjacent Mare Harbour naval base on East Falkland. Essfoods is based at Rendlesham Hall off the A1152, near the former RAF Bentwaters. The RAF lacked aircraft large enough to transport Chinooks and so the helicopter crews flew themselves to Freetown. They arrived at the UN base at Mile 91 almost 24 hours later, and an RAF Chinook picked them up and flew them to Freetown. Two RAF Chinooks transported Indian special forces to the outskirts of Kailahun. Most of the RAF aircraft left the area with a few retained for patrols over Iraq and support of ground forces. Show More Sentences On 4 April Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton said that the RAF was planning to continue operations over Libya for at least six months. The former RAF hospital based in Ely meant that many children of serving RAF parents were born in the city. In March 2015, the RAF's first operational mission occurred flying cargo to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. The ship was bombed by RAF jet bombers in an effort to break up the ship and burn off the leaking oil, but this failed to destroy the oil slick. Lotus Cars is based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. This site is the former RAF Hethel base and the test track uses sections of the old runway. As a young man he did national service in the RAF, where he became interested in pursuing a career in singing. Burton's role was that of an RAF officer who develops romantic feelings for the nun. Similarly, 1954 saw Blaina construct a new stand while Llanharan were able to build their first changing rooms procured from RAF surplus units. The station crest of the former RAF Leuchars, Fife, also showed the Saltire, in this case surmounted by a sword. On 21 October 2008, the first two of 91 Tranche 2 aircraft, ordered four years before, were delivered to RAF Coningsby. In June 2009, RAF Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy suggested that the RAF fleet might only be 123 jets, instead of the 232 previously planned. In September 2009, four RAF Typhoons were deployed to RAF Mount Pleasant replacing the Tornado F3s defending the Falkland Islands. On 20 March 10 Typhoons from RAF Coningsby and RAF Leuchars arrived at the Gioia del Colle airbase in southern Italy. This project was funded by the company as a private venture, in anticipation of possible RAF interest. It was now becoming clear that the RAF was simply becoming too small to justify their continued existence as separate entities. The command flag for an RAF air chief marshal is defined by the two broad red bands running through the centre of the flag. Originally, a Pakistani air chief marshal's rank insignia was essentially the same as the RAF insignia. Dowding was given a permanent commission in the RAF on 1 August 1919 with the rank of group captain. 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