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1938
1938 - 1466.PDF
506 FLIGHT. MAY 26, 1938. I THE EXPANDED ROYAL AIR FORCE Its Constitution and Administration Simply Explained : Ranks : The Various Commands : Home Defence By MAJOR F. A. de V. ROBERTSON, V.D. . NEXT Saturday, Empire Air Day, the public will see the Royal Air Force " athome." Visitors to Service aerodromes will meet personnel and be shownaircraft, equipment, armament, hangars and barracks. They will see and learn much. But will they understand the vastness and complexity of the organisation which lies behind these outward manifestations ? Many people actively engaged in aviation of one form or another are comparatively ignorant as to details of the constitution and administration of the Royal Air Force. First of all, it must be realised that, almost without exception, when a Service air- craft takes off and flies, it flies for some definite purpose connected with the defence of the country and the Empire. There are still plenty of veterans of the Great War in our midst, and they know well that the Government could not carry on the war by simply raising regiments and sending them across the Channel to fight the enemy. They had to be organised in brigades, divisions, corps and armies. The Royal Air Force has to be organised on somewhat the same lines, though that is seldom
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