No. 1457 (Fighter) Flight was formed at RAF Colerne on 15 September 1941, and was equipped with Turbinlite Douglas Boston and Douglas Havoc aircraft....

Squadron RAF No. 1456 (Fighter) Flight RAF (1941–42) became No. 535 Squadron RAF No. 1457 (Fighter) Flight RAF (1941–42) became No. 536 Squadron RAF No. 1458...

No. 1456 (Fighter) Flight was formed at RAF Honiley, Warwickshire on 24 November 1941, equipped with Turbinlite Douglas Boston and Douglas Havoc aircraft...

1942) No. 1457 (Fighter) Flight RAF (September – November 1941) Detachment of No. 1487 (Fighter) Gunnery Flight RAF (January – February 1943) No. 1498...

No. 1452 (Fighter) Flight was formed at RAF West Malling on 22 May 1941, equipped with Turbinlite Douglas Boston and Douglas Havoc aircraft. On operations...

West's towns and ports. The night fighting element was later augmented by 1457 Flight flying Douglas Havoc aircraft with its unsuccessful Turbinlite searchlight...

Squadron was formed at RAF Predannack, Cornwall on 8 September 1942, from No. 1457 (Turbinlite) Flight, as part of No. 10 Group RAF in Fighter Command. Instead...

"black boxes" occurs in a May 1945 Flight article, "Radar for Airlines", describing the application of wartime RAF radar and navigational aids to civilian...

capability, including operating in formation with Turbinlite aircraft of 1457 Flight. This bizarre concept consisted of a high powered searchlight attached...

with the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. After completing his training at No. 15 Operational Training...

conjunction with No. 151 Squadron RAF and No. 486 Squadron RNZAF, illuminating targets for the fighters to attack, with each flight / squadron of Turbinlite Havocs...

other KC-135 tankers (57-1449 and 57–1457) and a hangar and burst into flames. The aircraft was on a training flight, but the instructor pilot was occupying...

groups: the first group bombed at 1439–1445 hours, the second group at 1451–1457 hours. They claimed 186 Luftwaffe aircraft - more than four times the Germans’...

University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), founded in 1457, is one of Germany's oldest universities. Freiburg's main landmark is the...

to fly a steady atmospheric pressure of 925 (2500 ft/762 m), 850 (4780 ft/1457 m), or 700 millibars (9880 ft/3011 m) of pressure. Storms of category 3 strength...

region was protected by a solitary RAF station, RAF Digby near Sleaford, part of No. 12 Group RAF and controlled from RAF Watnall. Within the East Midlands...

Hurricane enters service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) as its first monoplane fighter aircraft with No. 111 Squadron at Northolt. The Dolphin Square flats...

(2009). Andrew Marr, A History of Modern Britain (2009), p. 211. "RAF Lossiemouth". www.raf.mod.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 7 January 2024. "History of...

in Europe after fall of the Berlin Wall. On 15 December 1993, the flight line at RAF Upper Heyford, England was closed and the host unit, the 20th Fighter...

Frequency Control. 57 (3): 623–628. arXiv:0909.0909. doi:10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1457. PMID 20211780. S2CID 10581032. University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Ultraprecise...

and 16 April 1945. On 16 April 1945, a British heavy bomber of the No. 617 Squadron RAF was shot down by the Germans, and is now commemorated with a memorial...

Concorde prototype made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969, five weeks after the French test flight. In 2003 British Airways and...

paying tribute to the New Kingdom of Egypt, which governed from Gaza. In 1457 BCE, Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III defeated a...

infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May. 4 May: A bomber from RAF Abingdon crashes at the eastern end of Linton Road with fatalities. 5 May:...

(1570–1572) is generally considered his masterpiece Andrea del Castagno (c. 1421 – 1457), painter in the early Florentine Renaissance. Known for a series of monumental...

Balsall, with their names appearing in local registers between 1385 and 1457. Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, was from a cadet branch of the de Arden...

III BT308, prototype of the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, first flies, from RAF Ringway. 11 March: German air raids cause further extensive damage to the...

from Salisbury's bishops, was finally canonised by Pope Callixtus III in 1457. The cathedral was consecrated on 5 April 1092 but suffered extensive damage...

allies. At the start of the war, the main Scottish military airfield was RAF Montrose, established a year earlier by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). The...

participant in the Battle of Britain in the 609th RAF Fighter Squadron, captain (flight lieutenant) of the RAF. Izabella Zielińska ( (1910–2017) – pianist,...