How to use in-sentence of “raf”:
+ At the Mareth Line, 20 March to 27 March, when Montgomery encountered stronger opposition than he had expected, he switched to trying to move around the side of the Germans, backed by low-flying RAF fighter-bomber support.
+ The present military camp was a RAF Aerodrome during the WWII and was heavily bombed by the Japanese Airforce on the first day of the invasion of Malaya.
+ He left the RAF in 1954 after two years and returned to England.
+ Like many of the airports in the Highlands and Islands, this airport was originally a RAF air base, and played a role in World War II.
+ She served as a waitress in the officers’ mess at RAF Marham and also at Narborough airfield.
+ During the World War IISecond World War RAF aircraft carrying secret equipment or that were in themselves secret had “/G” added to the end of the serial, the “G” signifying “Guard”, denoting that the aircraft was to have an armed guard at all times while on the ground., “LZ548/G”—the prototype jet fighter, or “ML926/G”—a de Havilland Mosquito XVI experimentally fitted with H2S radar.
Example sentences of “raf”:
+ In 2006, the RAF introduced a new version of the Harrier, the GR/9.
+ The Royal Air Force maintained an RAF airbase at the site of the airport until 1998.
+ Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked in mid-October to try to force the release of Baader and ten other RAF members.
+ Then in 1958 he was appointed Air Officer Commanding RAF Maintenance Command.
+ During World War II, the church was destroyed during a British RAF bombing raid in 1943.
+ It has nearby the Stornoway Airport, an old RAF airbase which now acts a link between the island and the Scottish mainland.
+ The total casualties on that important day were 60 German and 26 RAF aircraft shot down.
+ The three major Berlin airfields involved were Tempelhof, in the American Sector, RAF Gatow in the British and Tegel in the French.
+ He was the commander of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, being stationed at RAF Bentwaters, England, in 1980 at the time of the Rendlesham Forest incident.
+ He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
+ Prior to the adoption of metric units, British aircraft used Imperial units, and RAF aircraft used mph until after WWII while Fleet Air Arm aircraft used knots.
+ After the RAF bombed Berlin, and German air force bases in France, Hitler cancelled his orders not to bomb population centres and ordered attacks on British cities.
+ The village was formerly the location of RAF Wymeswold which has since closed.
+ RAF Mildenhall, Waterbeach Barracks and RAF Wyton were though of as alternative sites, but Marshall decided that there were “no suitable relocation options”.
+ We knew he’d be running around a lot, so I redesigned his RAF Group Captain’s greatcoat from “Doctor Who” to make it more fluid, because the real things are very weighty…
+ It was part of the RAF V bombers which were used by the Royal Air Force as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War.
+ In the centre is a laurel wreath around the RAF monogram, with a heraldic Imperial Crown on the top.
+ In the Second World War, he was an RAF fighter pilot.
+ In 2006, the RAF introduced a new version of the Harrier, the GR/9.
+ The Royal Air Force maintained an RAF airbase at the site of the airport until 1998.
+ Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked in mid-October to try to force the release of Baader and ten other RAF members.
More in-sentence examples of “raf”:
+ The RAF lost great numbers of pilots and aircraft, fighting around the world and especially against the “Luftwaffe”, the German Air Force.
+ In 1942, the Royal Air Force created the RAF Station Greenwood and built an aerodrome on nearby farmland for a facility to train aircrew under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
+ This was the main fighter aircraftfighter used by the RAF during the Battle of Britain.
+ This site is the former RAF Hethel base.
+ He served in the RAF during the Second World War, later moving to Canada.
+ Silverstone Circuit is built on the site of RAF Silverstone, a World War II Royal Air Force bomber station.
+ The RAF were very busy during World War II.
+ All materials from the demolished prison were ground to powder and dumped in the North Sea or buried at the former RAF Gatow.
+ He managed to get a job as principal horn with the RAF Central Band which were in Uxbridge in north-west London.
+ He became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Maintenance Command.
+ It was used by the RAF and many other militaries operators.
+ It is based at the old site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk.
+ The other two were RAF Broadwell and RAF Blakehill Farm.
+ More than 400 Bulldogs were produced for the RAF and overseas customers, and it was one of the most famous aircraft used by the RAF during the inter-war period.
+ He competed in the British Superbike Championship for RAF Reserves aboard a Honda CBR1000RR.
+ Among those missing was retired RAF Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham.
+ Eisenberg was killed, aged 47, when his car flipped and crashed on 1 October 2020 while attempting a British land speed record at RAF Elvington, Yorkshire.
+ No RAF fighters were based there.
+ A month later, the “Luftwaffe” shifted its attacks to RAF airfields and infrastructure, which were other useful war targets.
+ It was the most used RAF bomber in the Second World War.
+ During World War I, the RAF painted the outer roundels with a colour based on ultramarine blue.
+ On the same day, the RAF killed Schleyer in France.
+ The RAF was formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Möller and others.
+ The Fantasy Fiction series The Twilight Zone has a 24 February 1961 episode “The Odyssey of Flight 33” which is a retelling of The Flying Dutchman legend in which this version is of an airliner trapped in a Time Vortex; among one of the passengers is an unnamed RAF general officer presumedly based on Air Marshal Coningham.
+ The RAF lost great numbers of pilots and aircraft, fighting around the world and especially against the "Luftwaffe", the German Air Force.
+ In 1942, the Royal Air Force created the RAF Station Greenwood and built an aerodrome on nearby farmland for a facility to train aircrew under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
+ This was the main fighter aircraftfighter used by the RAF during the Battle of Britain.
+ He toured the USA with the RAF Orchestra.
+ In the case of the UK Royal Air Force the “Serial” takes the form of two letters followed by three numbers., “BT308″—the prototype Avro Lancaster, or “XS903″—an English Electric LightningEnglish Electric Lightning F.6 at one time based at RAF Binbrook.
+ It was built for the British military narrow gauge railwaysdepot railway and was used by the RAF Calshot until 1945.
+ Prior to this two-letter, three-number scheme, the RAF and preceding Royal Flying Corps used a serial with a letter followed by four numbers., “D8096” – a Bristol F.2 Fighter currently owned by the Shuttleworth Collection, or “K5054” – the prototype Supermarine Spitfire.
+ Sumburgh was a former RAF airfield, with two runways.
+ The airport, a former RAF base, is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.
+ On 1 June 1972, he and fellow RAF members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins were caught after a gunfight in Frankfurt.
+ The RAF lost 96 aircraft, compared to 48 lost by the “Luftwaffe”.
+ The variant with the most produced pieces was Avro 683 B I, a plane which was the base of RAF Bomber Command at that time.
+ During World War II it officially became RAF Ringway, and from 1975 until 1986 the title Manchester International Airport was used.
+ Elsewhere, three RAF Spitfires cross the English Channel, heading towards Dunkirk, tasked with defending the evacuation.
+ They stopped after terrorists used the information to attack the German embassy in Stockholm in 1975 and the RAF murdered diplomat Gerold von Braunmühl in 1986.
+ Aviation author Bill Withun concluded that the Comet had pushed “‘state-of-the-art’ beyond its limits.” The only complete remaining Comet 1 is displayed at the RAF Museum Cosford.
+ The RAF 11 Group rose to meet them in greater numbers than the “Luftwaffe” expected; 12 Group’s Big Wing took 20 min to gain formation and missed its intended target, but it came across another formation of bombers while it was still climbing.
+ He conducted the RAF band and played the piano for the dance band.
+ She was married to actor Raf Vallone from 26 July 1952 until his death on 31 October 2002.
+ He had been expected to marry childhood friend Kay Raven, who reportedly tired of waiting and married an RAF officer whom she met on holiday in 1950.
+ It is home to RAF Shawbury, a Royal Air Force base.
+ Various changes were made and several preliminary versions flew including the “Kestrel” and the first Harriers flew for the RAF and Royal Navy in 1969.
+ During the World War IISecond World War, it was also awarded to Royal Artillery officers serving with the RAF as pilots and artillery observers.
+ It was originally awarded to RAF officers.
+ It was called the ‘Dowding System’, after its chief architect, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the leader of RAF Fighter Command.