Three of Padraic MacKernan's uncles served with the RAF - one of them, a rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber, was killed in action in 1945.
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On Wednesday, Lady Thatcher's coffin will travel by hearse from the Palace of Westminster to the Church of St Clement Danes - the Central Church of the RAF - on the Strand.
Reflecting the public's desire for a new royal baby, one admirer gave the duke - an RAF search-and-rescue pilot - a baby's romper suit, emblazoned with a picture of a helicopter and the words "Daddy's little co-pilot".
It also contains items and interviews with Sir Douglas Bader - one of the deadliest RAF fighters - who flew from Duxford during World War II.
United in grief, Ellen and Russel's younger brother Randolph - an RAF flight electrician - fell in love and were married in 1943.
The Chapel St Leonards' Coastguard rescue team and Skegness inshore lifeboat were dispatched with support from an RAF search-and-rescue helicopter.
In the meantime, he is working as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot and, with his younger brother, backing charities that support young people, service people and the environment.
Thus he would arrive on his motorcycle at the grandest houses in the uniform of an RAF rank-and-filer and nurture his friendships with the powerful and famous, including Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.
The school exists to this day - although it is now based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire - and over the decades has cemented its reputation as a global centre for flight instruction.
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The ex-RAF man can now sue organisers Corporate Leisure of Bracknell, Berkshire, and the MoD.
As for the old boy ex-RAF who sunk his life savings into HSBC I wish he'd asked anyone in the City as to whether that was wise - at any stage during his holding of the stock.
Prince William, who is a helicopter co-pilot at RAF Valley, took part in the rescue 30 miles north-west off the Lleyn peninsula.
Following a high-level review, they have decided to service and repair planes at existing RAF bases with immediate effect - going against original plans to send them to Dara's planned aviation park at St Athan.
Two off-duty RAF personnel Fran Capps, 32, from Dulverton in Somerset, and Sqn Ldr Rimon Than, 33, died.
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One group was part of a Glenmore Lodge-organised winter skills training course and the second was off-duty RAF personnel.
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Two off-duty RAF personnel were killed, including Flt Lt Capps and Sqn Ldr Rimon Than, 33, of RAF Valley in North Wales.
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The war both caused and remedied the problem: competitors were housed in a pair of spruced-up RAF camps and an army convalescent home.
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Steve Blundell, of the Royal British Legion Riders Branch, said fewer people are turning out at Carterton - near RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.
Following the incident, the RAF grounded all non-essential flying of all Hawk T1 aircraft fitted with the Mk10 Martin Baker-built ejection seat "as a precaution".
The Red Army Faction (RAF or "Baader-Meinhof Gang") in West Germany enjoyed miniscule popular support and was widely condemned and disparaged by that country's intelligentsia.
But it seems he lied about his age to join the RAF as a 15-year-old and it has been suggested that he is now 80, and not 78 as he claims.
Following the incident at the Lincolnshire airbase, the RAF grounded all non-essential flying of all Hawk T1 aircraft fitted with the Mk10 Martin Baker-built ejection seat for one month "as a precaution".
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It said that officials were considering extending the life of the RAF's VC10s - due to be retired from service in March - then using the Tristar, which goes out of service next year, to meet air-to-air refuelling needs until the new planes are ready to take over.
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The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
An RAF spokesman said the multi-million pound investment further secured "its long term survival".
That search - which was called off as darkness fell on Saturday - included an RAF Lossiemouth helicopter.
The plane in question is believed to have crashed on 26 August 1940, brought down by an RAF fighter called the Boulton-Paul Defiant.
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The individual services have been increasingly at odds with one another as the strategic defence and security review approaches, with signs that Army numbers are likely to be spared, and that the Royal Navy will get its two aircraft carriers, though may have to sacrifice some of its surface fleet - while the RAF could see many jets and some bases cut.
Squadron leader Steve Long is the first RAF pilot to fly the single-seat plane.
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