Major battles of Royal Air Force

Major battles of Royal Air Force Related Important Events ⚡

Date of Event	Event / Incident
03 May 1915	The oldest consecutive current Royal Air Force Station, RAF Northolt, was opened as a house for the number 4 reserve airplane squadron.
09 March 1925	The British Royal Air Force began Pink's War, an air-to-ground bombardment against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan, British Raj, without the support of the British Army.
09 March 1925	The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaignagainst the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in SouthWaziristan.
06 November 1935	The Hawker Storm, responsible for the 60% of the Royal Air Force's aerial victory in the UK battle, made its first flight.
05 March 1936	The prototype of the Supermarine Spitfire, a British single-seat fighter that was later used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries during the Second World War, flew for the first time.
20 August 1940	In the midst of Britain's fight, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech thanking the Royal Air Force, which said, 'never was so outstanding for so many people.
23 April 1942	Several weeks ago in the Second World War, Lubek's retaliation for Royal Air Forcebombing, Luftwaf started a series of ex -exabing raids in England, began with an aceler.
16 May 1943	Royal Air Force Dampers raided the German dams at Operation Chaseis during the Second Freaal War.
17 August 1943	The Second World War-Royal Air Force launched a strategic bombing campaign by attacking the Peenmunde Army Research Center against the Nazi Germany's V-Hathiyar program.
12 November 1944	The Second World War-Royal Air Force drowned the German warship Tirpitz in the ninth attempt, resulting in about 1,000 deaths of sailors.
14 March 1945	The British Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000lb (9.98 t) earthquake bomb, on a strategic railroad viaduct inBielefeld, Germany.
02 June 1994	The Royal Air Force faced its worst disaster, when the Chinook helicopter crashed at the Clare of Scotland, killing 29 people.
15 October 1997	On the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, the first supersonic landslide record was set by Royal Air Force Pilot Andy Green at Jet-Propeled Car ThrustSSC when it gained 1,228 km / h (763Mph).