Dambusters Exhibition Programme

THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AT 100 –ATIMELINE HISTORY

1920 Geoffrey de Havilland set up the De Havilland Aircraft Company

28 February 1911 Formation of the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers 13 April 1912 The Royal Flying Corps formed by Royal Warrant

7 December 1903 First powered flight by the Wright brothers at Kittyhawk

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

June 1938 Supermarine Spitfire I enters service with No 19 Squadron RAF

16 October 1908 First military flight by a heavier-than-air machine in Britain by Samuel Cody

4 August 1914 Outbreak of the

‘Great War’ 1 April 1918

Formation of the Royal Air Force 11 November 1918 Armistice on the Western Front

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