Squadron Leader Victor Rodney Stokes White MC* (1895–1967) was an English World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He returned to military...
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by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Vickers Valiant and the Avro Vulcan. Entering service in 1958, the Victor was initially developed...
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V bomber (redirect from RAF strategic bomber)
Squadron, RAF Honington, Valiant B.1 No. 10 Squadron, RAF Cottesmore, Victor B.1 No. 15 Squadron, RAF Cottesmore, Victor B.1 No. 18 Squadron, RAF Finningley...
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October 1957, Johnson became commanding officer of RAF Cottesmore in the UK, commanding a station operating the Victor V bomber. In 1960 he was promoted to...
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Unit RAF - Valiant & Canberra Radar Reconnaissance Flight RAF with Handley Page Victor strategic bomber RAF Honington 55 Sqn with Handley Page Victor strategic...
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Operation Black Buck (section Victor tankers)
B. Price, became the senior RAF officer at Ascension. Wing Commander D. W. Maurice-Jones assumed command of the Victor detachment at Ascension until...
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That night, 100 Squadron lost their commanding officer, David Holford, who crashed landed approaching RAF Grimsby. On the night of 5 June 1944, the squadron...
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Page Victor B.1 and the English Electric Canberra T.4 with the first 7 Victors arriving on 11 November 1957. All Victor I crews trained at RAF Gaydon...
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Two Bars, AFC, CD (6 April 1920 – 7 February 1974) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter pilot and fighter ace during the Second World War. Braham...
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Douglas Bader (section Joining the RAF)
action, to determine Bader's victor. Each case was dismissed. Kosse's claim only matches the victory against No. 452 Squadron RAF's Sergeant Haydon. More recently...
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RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served...
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1938, at the age of 23, Dundas was commissioned as a pilot officer in No. 609 Squadron RAF, a Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadron. Hugh and John's godfather...
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the RAF's nuclear deterrent V bomber Force. A dispersal area called a "Dispersed Airfield" was built so that four Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor aircraft...
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Angels One Five (category British black-and-white films)
scenes in the film were shot at RAF Uxbridge, where there was a wartime operations room. "Angels One Five" refers to RAF radio procedure from the Second...
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Royal Air Force Finningley or RAF Finningley was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station at Finningley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster...
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made by RAF Spitfires were flown by 60 Squadron Mk XVIIIs over Malaya on 1 January 1951. The first Spitfire I to enter service with the RAF arrived at...
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David Jason (redirect from Sir David John White)
Sir David John White OBE (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor. He has played Derek "Del Boy"...
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high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe and Company (Avro)...
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Reach for the Sky (category British black-and-white films)
Bader's brother-in-law. In 1928, Douglas Bader joins the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a Flight Cadet. Despite a friendly reprimand from Air Vice-Marshal Halahan...
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problems at RAF Manston, not repaired. Vickers Valiant B1 XD818 – RAF Museum Cosford, on display with the other two V bombers, the Victor and Vulcan in...
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Noel Agazarian (category Royal Air Force officers)
April 2012. "Royal Air Force (Volunteer Reserve) (RAF(VR)) Officers 1939–1945". Unit Histories. Victor Clark (22 March 1993). "Obituary: Monique Agazarian"...
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officer and civil servant Victor Goddard, RAF officer Gordon Manley, climatologist Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, RAF officer & politician James Peter...
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Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton (IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY) is a Royal Air Force station near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. The airfield...
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Keith Park (category Royal Flying Corps officers)
1975) was a New Zealand-born officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF). During the Second World War, his leadership of the RAF's No. 11 Group was pivotal to...
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Paddy Finucane (category Irish officers of the Royal Air Force)
Finucane amongst his colleagues, was an Irish Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace—defined as an aviator credited with five or...
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Williams, Simon, ed. (22 March 2019). "Family liaison officer gets a little too close". RAF News. No. 1, 463. R' n R'. pp. 4–5. ISSN 0035-8614. Griffiths...
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First World War "Blondie" – Arnold Walker, RAF pilot Herbert Hasler, Second World War Royal Marines officer "Blood" – J. A. L. Caunter, British general...
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Roland Beamont (section RAF career)
– 19 November 2001) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and an experimental test pilot during and after the Second World War. He...
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Kenneth Holt (197863), RAF. Leon Kozlowski (500034), RAF. Edward Robert Wheeler Lawson (55281), RAF. Victor Albert Madeley (155171), RAF. James Carlyle Marmion...
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Royal Air Force (RAF), currently operating as the Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) for the RAF's Typhoon, presently based at RAF Coningsby in the English...
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