Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know

• ...that Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down 8 German aircraft, including three during one mission?

• ... that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members, navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?

• ...that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two?

• ...that the B-24 Liberator in which Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond was travelling when lost at sea in 1945 had previously been the personal transport of Winston Churchill?

• ...that the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by the Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/1

• ...that Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down 8 German aircraft, including three during one mission?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/2

• ...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/3

• ...that British Air Marshal Joubert de la Ferté served as commander-in-chief of RAF Coastal Command on two separate occasions, before and during the Second World War?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/4

• ...that the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/5

• ... that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members, navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/6

• ... that the first military aerodrome in Britain was at Larkhill, and the first squadron to use aeroplanes was formed there?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/7

• ...that the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/8

• ...that the 335th and 336th squadrons are the oldest in Greece's Hellenic Air Force, having been formed as units of the British RAF in the Second World War?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/9

• ...that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/10

• ...that when the RAF's High Speed Flight won the Schneider seaplane in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/11

• ... that the Royal Air Force designed the rotabuggy as a combination autogyro/jeep?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/12

• ...that during World War II, No. 233 Squadron RAF lost four aircraft out of a total of twenty-four supply flights flown at the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/13

• ...that the B-24 Liberator in which Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond was travelling when lost at sea in 1945 had previously been the personal transport of Winston Churchill?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/14

• ...that No. 112 Squadron RAF was the first unit from any air force to use the "Shark Mouth" logo on P-40 fighter planes?

Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/15

• ...that Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/16

• ...that Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/17

• ...that the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by the Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?

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Portal:Royal Air Force/Did you know/18

• ...that the Hal Far Fighter Flight, a British fighter unit formed during the siege of Malta, is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover of the island in June 1940?

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• ...that Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down 8 German aircraft, including three during one mission?

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