But the RAF wasn’t suddenly conjured up in 1918 out of nothing, before it, there was the Royal Flying Corps and to find out how that operation started, here's Joe Crowley with a report that he ...

The Royal Flying Corps, which became the Royal Air Force in 1918, played an increasingly critical role in the fighting and a new type of hero was born, the flying ace. In the summer of 1918 ...

As a captain in the Royal Flying Corps, Lucas would have known that his death was a very real risk of the work he was doing in support of Britain’s war effort. But Lucas wasn’t a career pilot ...