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Quentin Roosevelt II
Quentin Roosevelt II (1918–1948) was an American Army officer, aviation executive, and collector of Naxi manuscripts, a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and son of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Question Mark (aircraft)
Question Mark was a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A of the U.S. Army Air Corps that stayed airborne for 150 hours and 40 minutes in January 1929 through in-flight refueling.
Quick access recorder
A quick access recorder (QAR) is an aircraft flight data recorder giving airlines fast, routine access to raw flight data for safety and performance monitoring programs.
R. Richard Heppe
R. Richard (Dick) Heppe (1923–2015) was an American aerospace engineer who spent 41 years at Lockheed, rising to president of the Lockheed-California Company and working on the F-104, L-1011, F-117, and F-22A.
R101
R101 was a British rigid airship built in 1929 that crashed in France on 5 October 1930 on its maiden flight to India, killing 48 of 54 aboard.
Radar altimeter
A radar altimeter, also called a radio altimeter, is an airborne instrument that measures an aircraft's height above the ground by timing radio signals reflected from the surface.
Radial engine
A radial engine is a piston engine with cylinders arranged in a circle around the crankshaft, developed for aircraft because it is light and air-cooled.
Radio-controlled aerobatics
Radio-controlled aerobatics, known to participants as Pattern, is the FAI-judged flying of radio-controlled model aircraft through precision aerobatic schedules; its main class, F3A, held its first world championship in 1960.
Radio-controlled aircraft
A radio-controlled aircraft, also called an RC airplane, is a model aircraft flown from the ground using a hand-held radio transmitter driving its control surfaces.
Radio-controlled glider
A radio-controlled glider, also known as an RC sailplane, is an unpowered model aircraft kept aloft on thermals and slope lift, and raced in FAI class F3.
RAF Ascension Island
RAF Ascension Island, also known as Wideawake Airfield, is a Royal Air Force station on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, a staging post for UK–Falklands flights.
RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command was the Royal Air Force command controlling its bomber forces from 1936 to 1968, best known for the World War II night bombing offensive against Germany.
RAF Boulmer
RAF Boulmer is a Royal Air Force station near Alnwick, Northumberland, England, that controls UK airspace surveillance and provides tactical control of combat and support aircraft.
RAF Coningsby
RAF Coningsby, or Royal Air Force Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, home to Typhoon combat aircraft and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
RAF Cosford
RAF Cosford, also known as DCAE Cosford, is a Royal Air Force technical training station in Shropshire, opened 15 July 1938, home to the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Museum Midlands, and the Cosford Airshow.
RAF Doncaster
RAF Doncaster, also known as Doncaster Aerodrome, was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, operating from 1916 to 1919.
RAF Fairford
RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, opened in 1944 and the US Air Force's only European forward operating location for heavy strategic bombers.
RAF Finningley
RAF Finningley was a Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, opened in 1936 and used as a bomber training base, V-bomber nuclear strike station, and flying training center.
RAF Greenham Common
RAF Greenham Common was a Royal Air Force and US Air Force airbase in Berkshire, England, used from 1941 to 1992 and known for Cold War cruise missiles and a women's peace camp.
RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe, at Walters Ash, Buckinghamshire, is the RAF station hosting HQ Air Command (Air & Space Command from 2026) and UK Space Command; formerly the disguised wartime HQ of Bomber Command, codename Southdown.
RAF Honington
RAF Honington, also known as Royal Air Force Honington, is an RAF station in Suffolk, England, opened in 1937 and home of the RAF Regiment since 1994.
RAF Iraq Command
RAF Iraq Command, also known as British Forces in Iraq, controlled all British forces in Mandatory Iraq from 1922 under an air policing scheme after the 1920 revolt.
RAF Lakenheath
RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England, operated by the United States Air Force and home to the 48th Fighter Wing since 1948.
RAF Menwith Hill
RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, providing communications and intelligence support to the United Kingdom and the United States.
RAF Mount Batten
RAF Mount Batten, formerly RAF Cattewater, was a Royal Air Force flying boat station at Plymouth, Devon, from 1917 to 1992, best known as the wartime base of No. 10 Squadron RAAF.
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant, also called the Mount Pleasant Complex, is a Royal Air Force base in the Falkland Islands opened in 1985 after the Falklands War.
RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in west London, opened in 1915 and used by both military and civilian aircraft for government and VIP flights.
RAF officer ranks
The RAF officer ranks are the Royal Air Force's eleven commissioned ranks, from Pilot Officer up to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, introduced on 4 August 1919.
RAF Tangmere
RAF Tangmere, also called Royal Air Force Station Tangmere, was a fighter station in West Sussex and an 11 Group sector station during the Battle of Britain.
RAF Valley
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on Anglesey, Wales, home of No 4 Flying Training School, which trains the UK's fast jet pilots.