They were the Royal Flying Corps-- 39 RFC died here, mostly in crashes, but 1900 combat pilots were trained here. On Memorial Day a special ceremony will be held at the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery ...

The Royal Flying Corps was established in 1912. Joe Crowley looks at how the Corps needed amateur pilots to persuade the government of its value, with the first squadron set up at Lark Hill.

Rickenbacker sailed to England to build a new race car with the Sunbeam Motor Car Company. Britain had already entered World War I, and Eddie watched the Royal Flying Corps in action.

In the meantime, Canadian aviation troops were absorbed into the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service until the Royal Air Force’s creation in April, 1918. 60,661 Canadians lost their ...

An army officer badly wounded in the Boer War, he was among the first British military pilots and the frontline commander of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. The RAF was formed on 1 ...

Tag: Royal Flying Corps. Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 06:09 UTC Falklands donated three aircraft to WW1 effort, and the five Spitfires in WW2. A discovery by the Museum and National Trust has ...

It is 1919. You are 25 years old. Your duty in the deadly skies above Europe is done. Your name is Billy. You have shot down more enemy aircraft than anyone in the Royal Flying Corps. Or you have ...

The other produced heroic fiction, whose best-known exponent was Captain WE Johns, creator of Biggles, who joined the Royal Flying Corps Advertisement. Advertise with NZME ...