RAF - Royal Air Force
ramp weight - maximum permissible weight of an aircraft, which exceeds maximum take-off weight by an allowance for fuel burned during engine-start and taxi.
RAF Long Range Development Unit; R. Kellett, H.A.V. Hogan and A.N. Combe (first pilots) + crew of two in each aircraft
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RAF
Resolution Advisory (TCAS)
RAIL
runway alignment indicator light system.
Both the RAF and Luftwaffe had attempted daylight bombing and discontinued it, believing advancements in single-engine fighters made multi-engined bombers too vulnerable, contrary to Douhet's thesis.
gremlin: (RAF slang) Mischievous sprite imagined to frequent aircraft and to cause mishaps [OED].
GPS: Global Positioning System.
Group. The RAF formation into which the Commands are divided. The Group, in turn, is subdivided into Wings and the Wings into Squadrons.
The use of the RAF to defeat rebels in the Empire
After World War I Britain had to deal with disorders of all sorts in its empire.
RAF: Royal Air Force. Is also used as a prefix for a Royal Air Force base (for example: RAF Mildenhall)
RAS: Rectified Airspeed. IAS corrected for instrument position error.
RDO: Radio ...
When WWII was over, the RAF had to begin planning ahead. Besides its wide array of indigenous bombers, including the Lancaster, during the war it had been using a large number of lend lease machines, including B-24's.
After this first group had been built, RAF orders finally followed and a more powerful version with a beavertail rear door was produced. This aircraft served all over the world, providing support for UK military forces in NATO and in Malaysia.
CHIRP - Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting system, whereby professional pilots and ATC staff may report in confidence incidents arising from human errors for analysis by the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough.
This brilliantly illustrated short novel was written as a Christmas gift to his wife. It is the tale of an RAF Vampire jet pilot lost over the North Sea on Christmas Eve in 1957 and his mysterious encounter with a de Havilland Mosquito.
Not so long ago some of us were studying on some benches out front of the college after work, when the Sparrows (RAF colloquialism) flew over, looped overhead in formation and did a Vixen Break aiming straight down towards us.
80 merchant and naval ships and many smaller vessels were sunk, and 80 RAF pilots lost their lives.
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