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    The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service...
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    list of aircraft used by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) from 13 April 1912, when it was formed from the Air Battalion Royal Engineers, until 1 April 1918...
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    The Royal Flying Corps Canada (RFC Canada) was a training organization of the British Royal Flying Corps located in Canada during the First World War....
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  • The Royal Flying Corps brigades were organizational formations of British military aircraft and personnel during World War I that typically controlled...
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    Wing of the Royal Flying Corps which saw action throughout most of the First World War until 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the Royal Naval Air Service...
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    It entered service with the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps in the autumn of 1916. With pleasant flying characteristics and good manoeuvrability...
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    Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was the branch of the Australian Army responsible for operating aircraft during World War I, and the forerunner of the Royal Australian...
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    1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air force...
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  • was lieutenant d'aviation. The term "flying officer" was originally used in the Royal Flying Corps as a flying appointment for junior officers, not a...
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    there was no repetition of "Bloody April" 1917 when losses in the Royal Flying Corps were much heavier than in the Luftstreitkräfte. The S.E.5s remained...
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    The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army. It...
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  • A list of Royal Flying Corps squadrons with date and location of foundation. The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the aviation arm of the British Army. Squadrons...
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  • List of military aircraft of the United Kingdom (category Royal Air Force lists)
    of aircraft of the Army Air Corps (United Kingdom) List of aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force List of naval aircraft...
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  • A list of airfields of the Royal Flying Corps. Saint-Omer, France, 1914–1918 (Headquarters) - now Saint-Omer Wizernes Airport and site of British Air Services...
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    Harold Whistler, Royal Flying Corps flying ace who was awarded the DFC three times Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck, Royal Air Force flying ace who was...
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    several senior positions in the Royal Flying Corps during First World War, serving as the commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France from 1915 to 1917...
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    Vickers-Challenger synchronisation gear was put into production for the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in December 1915 and in a few weeks, a similar order for the...
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    aircraft construction. Early versions entered squadron service with the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 and the type served throughout the First World War. Initially...
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    such as the Royal Flying Corps' Sopwith Camels to make their angle and direction difficult to judge for an enemy gunner. Similarly the Royal Navy painted...
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    first independent air force in the world, by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Following the Allied victory over...
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    Mick Mannock (category Royal Flying Corps officers)
    May 1887 – 26 July 1918) was a British-Irish flying ace who served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War. Mannock...
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    was formed by the 1918 merger of the RN's Royal Naval Air Service with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps. The FAA did not come under the direct control...
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    commissioned as Flying Officers (Lieutenants) in the Pakistan Air Force. The academy was created in 1910 and was a former airfield of the Royal Flying Corps and later...
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  • refurbished Crossley Motors 20/25 type tenders previously used by the Royal Flying Corps, which were supplied to the Metropolitan Police in 1920. Throughout...
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    during the conflict, and some replaced or supplemented S.VIIs in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), pending the arrival of Sopwith Dolphins. It proved popular...
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    2" type was operated as a day and night bomber and fighter by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Along with the single-seat D.H.2 pusher...
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     Soviet Union Soviet Air Force - Postwar.  United Kingdom Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force Royal Naval Air Service No. 1 Squadron RNAS No. 3 Squadron RNAS...
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    depot for the Royal Naval Division to being an 'Intake Camp' for the Royal Flying Corps which was at that time being reformed as the Royal Air Force, and...
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    (either Vickers or Scarff) for the Lewis gun. Fifty were delivered to Royal Flying Corps training units. A few served in some F.E.2b squadrons while they were...
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    Infantry: 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders The Royal Flying Corps units in France were commanded by Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson...
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