Royal Flying Corps
:For the computer game, see Flying Corps
Some members of the RFC
Militarily prominent
- Billy Bishop, VC - highest scoring allied flying ace of WWI
- Hugh Dowding later commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
- Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris ("Bomber" Harris) later commander of RAF Bomber Command
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory later head of Fighter Command
- John Moore-Brabazon 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara, later Minister of Aircraft Production under Winston Churchill
- Keith Park
- Sir Charles Portal the World War II advocate of strategic bombing
- Henry Tizard, British scientist and inventor, chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee 1933-44.
- Hugh Trenchard - commander of RFC and later Chief of the Air Staff
Otherwise prominent
- O. G. S. Crawford later Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey
- Charles Galton Darwin F.R.S., grandson of Charles Darwin
- Jack Hobbs cricketer
- W. E. Johns, author of the Biggles books
- John Lennard-Jones - scientist
- Oswald Mosley - founder of the British Union of Fascists
- William Stephenson who later played a key role in the creation of the CIA and was the first non-U.S. citizen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
In fiction
- Biggles
- Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
- The Dawn Patrol, starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Origin and Early History |
| ► | Aircraft |
| ► | World War I |
| ► | Training |
| ► | Amalgamation |
| ► | Some members of the RFC |
| ► | External links |
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