• when the RAF's High Speed Flight won the Schneider Trophy in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?
• Stefan Knapp, a Polish artist working in Great Britain, used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork?
• Air Marshal Sir Michael Giddings, an RAF officer who flew Spitfires during World War II, chaired the infamous inquiry concerning the Archway Road A1 extension that would have demolished almost 200 homes?

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Royal Air Force

• football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
• Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?
• Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union?
• RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess?
• Royal Air Force pilot Robert Leith-Macgregor was twice shot down during World War II and then strafed by German fighters, but survived uninjured both times?
• SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships (pictured), was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II?
• Wing Commander George H. Stainforth AFC RAF was the first man to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft?
• Banwell Castle served as the headquarters for a squadron of the Balloon Command of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
• Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?
• Kenneth St Joseph, who pioneered the use of aerial photography for archaeology, persuaded the Royal Air Force to take photos for him without charging?