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Expanding the Royal

... Expanding the Royal Air Force New Machines to Defend the Coasts of Britain THE Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force by 71 new squad rons instead of by 22 as originally planned is going to prove a severe test of service organization as well ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1190 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PAGEANTRY of WINGS: The Royal Air Force Display

... and the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet, the Corps Diplomatique, the Empire Press Dele gates, and the Colonial Governors over for the Conference are amongst those who will be seen in the Royal Enclosure. Accommodation has been ar ranged for 150 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1471 | Page: 56 | Tags: Photographs 

The Training of Pilots in the Royal Air Force

... careful deduc tion and analysis throughout the whole history of the Service. The training of the Royal Air Force is the whole life of the Royal Air Force. The Royal Air Force does not watch and wait for the day when it will come into action it is always moving ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1878 | Page: 62 | Tags: Photographs 

KING EDWARD'S EUROPE: The Vital Part that the Royal Traveller Can Play in the Renewal of Britain's Prestige Abroad

... Italy save by the royal Dukes, announcing their brother's Coronation. All the more regrettable in the Italian case, in that there can have been no more popular foreigner in that country during 1918 than the G.S.O.3 of Lord Cavan's 14th Corps. The Prince used ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2444 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

R.A.F. BALLOONS

... r. dALLL;LJIn5 peace-time training GROTESQUE BUT USEFUL: A Royal Air Force observation balloon at Rolle- stone Camp, Salisbury, where it is being used for training men to be efficient observers THE EYES OF THE R.A.F. A balloon about to be released at ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 129 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

LE ROI EST MORT!--VIVE LE ROI: Scenes at the Funeral of King Albert I and at the Enthronement of King Leopold III

... Ambassadors, soldiers, statesmen, and the Belgian Royal Family were present at the service, which ended with the singing of the National Anthem. The coffin was then taken in procession to Laeken and placed in the Royal crypt BRITISH MARINES MARCHING IN THE FUNERAL ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1934
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 492 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

II.--SEARCHLIGHTS and the linking-up of group with group

... PLANES IS PASSED FROM THE OBSERVERS TO THE SEARCHLIGHT POSITIONS, THE HEIGHT FINDERS AND PREDICTOR POSITIONS, AND TO THE GUNS AND INTERCEPTOR PLANES AN A, A. CREW AT A LISTENING POST Air defence is a partnership between the Royal Air Force and the Territorial ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 885 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WATER-COLOUR PAINTERS' RECENT BANQUET

... FRANK NEWNES Phntn Saaho As will be observed from this quite inadequate gallery of those present, a very large leaven of distinguished people pervaded the banquet held to celebrate the 124th exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 328 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

Air Racing and Defence

... produced by the Air League for an Air Defence Cadet Corps. In a time of emergency, every able-bodied man and woman will be needed for duties which only adults can perform. Boys are wanted for relief work. The Corps needs 20,000 cadets between the ages of fourteen ...

Published: Wednesday 08 June 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

CO-OPERATION BETWEEN OUR AIR AND LAND FORCES: Some of the Arguments For and Against Re-organising the Army's ..

... soldiers who argued that the Army should have its own Flying Corps, as it had before the R.A.F. was formed, on April 1, 1918, by amalgamating the Royal Naval Air Service and the Army's Royal Flying Corps. But the soldiers who were seconded to the R.A.F. accepted ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2031 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: True Form

... Strange, one of the most experienced air pilots living, and Cap tain H. H. Balfour, who distinguished himself in the Royal Flying Corps as a single-seater fighter pilot during the War, and who now adorns the House of Commons, are among the directors of ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1315 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs