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Did you know ...

• the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
• the Royal Air Force designed the rotabuggy as a combination autogyro/jeep?
• several British Royal Air Force Stations were used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (emblem pictured) for almost 20 years?
• in June 1940 the Royal Air Force supplied the boats for Operation Collar, the first British raid on occupied France?
• although he was a German national, Ken Adam fought in the Royal Air Force during World War II?
• the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s (pictured) for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?
• the 335th and 336th squadrons are the oldest in Greece's Hellenic Air Force, having been formed as units of the British RAF in the Second World War?
• two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation, resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force?
• two commanding officers of No. 219 Squadron RAF went on to become the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force, whilst a third became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Pakistani Air Force?
• the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?
• the Brimstone missile, an anti-tank guided missile, is carried by three Royal Air Force aeroplane types?
• Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?
• Peter Stevens, the only known German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot in WWII, enlisted using a stolen identity and later won a Military Cross for his attempts to escape from POW camps?
• Royal Air Force pilot Robert Leith-Macgregor was twice shot down during World War II and then strafed by German fighters, but survived uninjured both times?
• RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess?
• Czech Second World War fighter pilot FrantiÅ¡ek Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union?
• Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?
• SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships (pictured), was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II?
• Wing Commander George H. Stainforth AFC RAF was the first man to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft?
• No. 140 Squadron of the Royal Air Force had the help of Mosquitos to take pictures of France during World War II?
• Kenneth St Joseph, who pioneered the use of aerial photography for archaeology, persuaded the Royal Air Force to take photos for him without charging?
• Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?
• Banwell Castle served as the headquarters for a squadron of the Balloon Command of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
• football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?