RAF Fighter Command

Lone Survivor is wrote through a navy SEALs eyes as he is traveling through the Afghanistan and Pakistan border. Their mission is to track down and capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. They are working with the Taliban but the North and South Taliban don’t get along. The seals have to work as a middle man to get the North and South Taliban to work together. Marcus talks about their routine as they go through Navy training and then when they get through the SEAL training. They are going through the…

A book by Mark Lee Greenblatt features a man named Chris Kyle. Chris a Navy seal , independently rescued Marines that were trapped in a house in Fallujah Iraq during his tour. He went to every extent to make sure no man was left behind, even if that meant dragging a Marine fifty yard to safety. In the Military no man is left behind, following that principle comes down to the person's heart. The gut feeling of putting your life or job or time on the line and casting out to see what you can catch…

In today’s aviation world, aircraft are designed with multiple systems to aid aircrew with all aspects of flight; however, the only factor that aircraft manufacturers can’t eliminate is the integration of human error. “Human errors represent the mental or physical activities of individuals that fail to achieve their intended outcome”*. In order to properly predict human error factors we must first understand some factors that make up human error, such as “fatigue” and “situational stress”.…

called the preliminary phase. This phase of the battle took place when The Battle of France had ended and The Battle of Britain was about to begin. Before Britain’s battle begun there were problems the campaigns in France and Norway had left the Fighter Command’s squadrons in a weakened state. There was a lack of equipment, lack of ground crew since many of them were entrap in France, and pilot fatigue. However, these losses were made to good use and pilots, aircrafts, and operational squadron…

whose role was greatly underestimated by high command, “manned with low quality personnel whose inputs were considered of limited usefulness to the conduct of future operations.” As such a number of key mistakes were made, giving rise to some of the poor decisions by Goering. Despite being advocates of Clausewitz, there primary failing was a dramatic misidentification of British centres of gravity. Even with reports of bomber pilots shoring up fighter command they failed to identify Dowding’s…

General Trenchard, the first commander of Royal Air Force (RAF) (and ‘Chief of Staff’ of world’s first independent air force) also continued to develop Britain’s AP Doctrine after the war. He strongly advocated the importance of an offensive role of A. He also believed AP’s primary mission is to annihilate the enemy from the air. He also believed that if that was his strategy, it will be so for other countries as well. Therefore they needed to dedicated resources to air development. He stress…

France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin” Winston Churchill. The Battle of Britain was an aerial battle between Great Britain and the Nazi’s, a battle between Churchill and Hitler, and a battle between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and The Luftwaffe. The Battle of Britain had an affect on World War II because of the Airstrikes on British cities, the first uses of the air force, and the Nazi’s first big loss. A major part of the Battle of Britain was the airstrike's by the…

Air power influenced each member of the Allies and Axis powers uniquely through the context in which they viewed the effects of air power in World War I (WWI), the development of theories and technology in the interwar years, and the geopolitical situation facing the nations at the outset of World War II (WWII). These situations and experiences created a perception of the capabilities of air power that drove the creation and employment of the nations’ air arm. In turn, each belligerents’…

“It may be said that Douhet was the theorist of the air power, Mitchell the publicist and catalytic agent, and Trenchard the organizational genius.” -Harry H. Ransom. Air power generates a new revolution in thought, making way for air power theorist like Giulio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and Billy Mitchell, and they established the basics of strategic, operational, and tactical employment that will generate influences until our time. The airpower theorists over emphasized the long range…

beginner groups of pilots. The 42 Canadian fighter pilots of No. 1 RCAF and 242 Squadron were able to destroy about 60 German aircrafts and had destroyed or damaged another 50 of the total 1733 German aircrafts. Late summer, the commanding officer of the No. 1 Squadron, Squadron Leader Ernest McNab, shot down a German aircraft while in the air with the British pilots. After this, his own squadron was declared operational and were taken out of training and moved to RAF Station Northolt. The…