The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force (RAF) celebrates its’ one hundredth anniversary on April 1, 2018. Formed during the latter part of the First World War, it came into being through the merging of the (army’s) Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
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Looking Back at Some Air Tattoos – Part Two
Posted by Joe Kates on February 26th, 2013

The Air Tattoos on either side of the Millenium were attended by countries with very interesting aircraft. The Soviet Union had dissolved, and many Warsaw Pact air forces were replacing their old designs with newer Western and Russian jets. Most SU-22 and MiG-21, -23 and -29 fighters were in their last years of service. NATO […]