Burn or more simply RAF Burn is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 5 miles (8 km) south of Selby and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of Burn in...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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temporarily between January 1944 until February 1944 before moving to the empty RAF Burn. A number of units also used the airfield such as No 6266 Servicing Echelon...
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Snowbirds (aerobatic team) (redirect from No. 431 Squadron RAF)
Force was created under the control of RAF Bomber Command. Number 431 Squadron formed on 11 November 1942, at RAF Burn (in North Yorkshire), flying Wellington...
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until 15 January 1944, when he was posted to No. 578 Squadron, based at RAF Burn in North Yorkshire. His second sortie with the new squadron was an attack...
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had a detachment at RAF Ballyhalbert. No. 659 Squadron RAF between 17 August 1943 and 23 April 1944 with a brief change to RAF Burn on 31 December 1943...
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List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF)
operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
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No. 51 Squadron RAF, equipped with Halifax Mk.III bombers, as part of No. 4 Group RAF in Bomber Command. It transferred to RAF Burn, North Yorkshire...
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the naming tradition of the Royal Air Force, whereby the prefix RCAF (vs. RAF) was affixed. High River Vancouver Winnipeg Dartmouth Camp Borden Ottawa...
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RAF (4Gp) was a Royal Air Force group, originally formed in the First World War, and reformed in the wake of the Second World War, mostly part of RAF...
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The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11 am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage...
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Eurofighter Typhoon (redirect from RAF Typhoons)
stood up at RAF Leuchars on 6 September 2010, making Leuchars the second RAF base to operate the Typhoon. On 20 March 2011 ten Typhoons from RAF Coningsby...
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Stations RAF Bourn RAF Downham Market RAF Graveley RAF Gransden Lodge RAF Little Staughton RAF Marham RAF Oakington RAF Upwood RAF Warboys RAF Wyton List of...
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purpose of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD). It was used by the RAF and is still used by the Royal Saudi Air Force. The weapon was retired by...
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Red Army Faction (redirect from RAF (terrorist group))
The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ), also known as the Baader–Meinhof...
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with RAF Bomber Command during World War II who suffered severe burns following a crash. He was notable for the support he gave to other burns victims...
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skirt the RAF, which is still defending its airfields to the south, and the Germans bomb unopposed. Night time attacks follow and London burns. To supplement...
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RAF Carlisle (previously RAF Kingstown) was a Royal Air Force establishment, now closed after being used for a variety of roles over a period of fifty...
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subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War. It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, the United States Army Air Forces'...
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No. 303 Squadron RAF, also known as the 303rd "Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw" Fighter Squadron, was one of two Polish squadrons that fought during the Battle...
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Royal Air Force Chivenor, or more simply RAF Chivenor, (ICAO: EGDC) was a Royal Air Force station located on the northern shore of the River Taw estuary...
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in its fifth week on the chart. Filming of the music video for "Burn" took place at RAF Wittering near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on 3 June 2013, and...
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seven crew members in Avro Lancaster B Mk. II, DS664, of No. 115 Squadron RAF. Returning from a 300-bomber-raid on Berlin, east of Schmallenberg, DS664...
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of only 15 RAF airfields equipped with FIDO, a fog-clearing system utilising petrol pumped through pipes alongside the main runway and burned via a sequence...
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designed for close-range combat. It is in service in the Royal Air Force (RAF), replacing the AIM-9 Sidewinder. The ASRAAM is designed to allow the pilot...
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Airbus A330 MRTT (redirect from RAF Voyager)
required by RAF tasking. No. 10 Squadron, at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire No. 101 Squadron, at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire No. 1312 Flight, at RAF Mount...
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by Bower. On 6 July 1944 an RAF Halifax bomber MZ519-LKU crashed on the south side of the village on its return to RAF Burn near York. The Halifax had...
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such as RAF Penrhos and RAF Warmwell. The School's Initial Training Squadron used RAF Kidlington, RAF Windrush, RAF Chipping Norton and RAF Hullavington...
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airfields, such as RAF Snaith, RAF Chelveston, RAF Newmarket, RAF Riccall, RAF Burn, RAF Hartford Bridge, RAF Farnborough and RAF Beaulieu. A large and...
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Royal Air Force Greenham Common or more simply RAF Greenham Common is a former Royal Air Force station in the civil parishes of Greenham and Thatcham...
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