4.9K views · 290 reactions | The RAF's history has often inspired its current and future generations of pilots and aviators. In this video, three generations of the RAF, past, present and future, talk about what Remembrance means to them. Group Captain Bob Iveson, a retired falklands Harrier veteran, joins a current pilot and a University Air Squadron Cadet to share their thoughts for #remembrance . | Royal Air Force | Facebook

Barrage balloons were a common sight across the UK in 1940 – but what were they for? RAF Balloon Command played an important role in the Battle of Britain. By 1945 33,000 RAF and Women’s Auxiliary Air Force personnel operated over 3000 balloons, to protect strategic locations and cities. https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/our-history/anniversaries/battle-of-britain #DetectAndDefend | Royal Air Force

Did you know 2023 is the 100th anniversary of air-to-air refuelling? The first mid-air refuelling between two aircraft took place in 1923, between two Airco DH-4B biplanes from the United States Army Air Service. Today Voyager provides air-to-air refuelling capability for the RAF, a key pillar of strategic and tactical Air Mobility. Operating either a ‘towline’, where the Voyager orbits around a prescribed area awaiting ‘receivers’, or in a ‘trail’, where it flies with aircraft refuelling them o

18K views · 774 reactions | Exactly 100 years ago, Alcock and Brown...

42K views · 862 reactions | Our virtual service to remember over 20,000 men and women from the Commonwealth Air Forces who died during the Second World War and have no known grave will be tomorrow 17 May at 11am BST. You can join us for the service here: https://www.forces.net/runnymede We will remember them. | Royal Air Force | Facebook

186K views · 2K reactions | The Royal Australian Air Force says it now has one of the world's most advanced spy planes adapted from an aircraft usually used by celebrities. | 7NEWS Sydney | Facebook

PLATINUM JUBILEE: Queen Elizabeth and the royal family gathered to watch Royal Air Force planes fly over Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, marking her 70 year reign. Four-year-old Prince Louis was seen covering his ears as the planes flew in the formation of the number 70. | 10 Tampa Bay

15K views · 170 reactions | WATCH: It's definitely not a bird - Royal Australian Air Force planes have put on an impressive show above Adelaide! A C-130J Hercules, two PC-9/A Pilatus and a P-8A Poseidon flew by in formation as part of the lead-up to the Edinburgh Air Show. Join us onboard one TONIGHT in 9 News Adelaide at 4.00pm and 6.00pm. #9News | https://9News.com.au | 9 News Adelaide | Facebook