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Did you know ...

• as well as being Australia's first military pilot, Henry Petre (pictured) led the Australian Flying Corps' first unit on active service and earned the DSO, MC and four Mentions in Despatches?
• at 24, Wilfred Arthur was the youngest Group Captain in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force?
• as a Squadron Leader in 1936, future diplomat Charles Eaton (pictured) was arrested and held for three days in Koepang, Dutch Timor, while undertaking a clandestine mission for the RAAF?
• a purge of senior ranks in 1946 left Air Vice Marshal George Mackinolty (pictured) as one of only two officers in the Royal Australian Air Force who had seen service in both world wars?
• a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?
• before Air Marshal Richard Williams was called "Father of the RAAF", the title was often accorded to Group Captain Eric Harrison, who gave Williams his initial flight training?
• in the 89-year history of the Royal Australian Air Force, only three officers have been promoted to air chief marshal, the service's highest active rank?
• the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Wing was often referred to as the 'Churchill Wing' because of Winston Churchill's key role in its formation?
• two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
• the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged?
• on 31 March 1921, Arthur "Spud" Murphy became "Airman No. 1" on the roll of the newly established Royal Australian Air Force?
• in the early 1950s Air Marshal Donald Hardman (pictured) transformed the Royal Australian Air Force's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function?
• Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams (pictured) is known as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force?
• Neville McNamara (pictured) was only the second RAAF officer to be promoted Air Chief Marshal, and the last Chief of the Air Staff to be knighted before Australia abandoned imperial honours?
• Group Captain (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Frederick Scherger was one of the few senior RAAF officers in Northern Australia to emerge from the inquiry into the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 with his career undamaged?
• RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads?
• Flying Officer (later Air Commodore) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF when it was formed in 1921?
• Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett, the RAAF's senior engineer from 1935 to 1959, was nicknamed "Punch" for his prominent chin and nose?
• Air Marshal John McCauley's (pictured) university degree was an unusual qualification for a pilot in the pre-war RAAF, whose officers generally "valued little beyond flying ability"?
• RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton (pictured) was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an Air Vice Marshal?
• RAAF pilot Allan Walters (pictured) made use of his aerobatic skills while courting his wife-to-be in 1930, performing stunts above the church where her father was rector?
• John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the "The Great Escape", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF?
• Ivor McIntyre (pictured) was lead pilot in two pioneering aviation feats, the first circumnavigation of Australia by air, and the first international flight by an RAAF plane and crew?
• Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school?
• World War II RAAF fighter ace John Waddy later became a Minister of the Crown, while British Army paratrooper John Waddy went on to command the SAS?
• Air Marshal Charles Read broke with tradition by refusing to sit for the usual portrait painted of retiring RAAF Chiefs of the Air Staff?