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Snoopy's Dream Plane: Why The Sopwith Camel Is Britain's Most Famous Fighter Of WWI
The Sopwith Camel was a legendary WWI fighter with unmatched air-to ... the RFC and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) to form the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Sopwith Camel boasted a max airspeed ...
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RAF using Argentine aircraft from Falklands War.
The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...
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RAF Fighter Command
Fighter Command was one of three functional commands – along with Bomber Command and Coastal Command – of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of ...
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The former Cambridgeshire RAF base now a world-famous aviation museum
The airfield was built during WW1, becoming one of the ... the first Spitfire landed at RAF Duxford in August 1938. The iconic single-seat fighter plane has distinctive elliptical wings, the ...
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British jet once again scrambled to escort Russian planes near NATO airspace — RAF
According to the RAF, the Russian planes did not comply with international norms by not communicating with the relevant flight information region LONDON, June 14. /TASS/. UK Royal Air Force (RAF ...