RAF Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Close combat in the air
  2. 7. 1982 conflict against Argentina
  3. 8. Shape of Spitfire wing
  4. 9. German bombing tactics during WW2
  5. 12. equal to 60 minutes of latitude
  6. 18. The "Few" in a Churchill Speach
  7. 20. The Viking and the Vulcan, for example
  8. 21. RAF multi-role aircraft based at Conningsby
  9. 23. English translation of second word of the RAF motto
  10. 25. firstname of cadet (Sergeant) Davies
  11. 27. Father of the RAF
  12. 29. Predecessor of the RAF
  13. 31. One rank below Sergeant
  14. 32. Cadet training aircraft
  15. 34. RAF symbol
  16. 35. Maker of planes eg Hurricane and Nimrod
  17. 36. year the RAF was founded
  18. 40. Battle of Britain Fighter; quick-tempered
  19. 41. Western alliance: Abbr.
  20. 43. bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action
  21. 45. First Name of PM before Churchill
  22. 48. Main opponent in WW2
  23. 50. weapon of mass destruction
Down
  1. 2. the direction northwards along the lines of a map projection.
  2. 3. aerodynamic condition resulting in loss of lift
  3. 4. Sevenoaks CCF Contingent commander
  4. 5. the act of quickly mobilising military aircraft
  5. 6. Enola Gay target of 1945
  6. 10. British propoganda spoke about these to hide RADAR
  7. 11. Military action
  8. 13. The RAF’s operational headquarters in the Middle East. No _____ Expeditionary Air Group
  9. 14. RAF base in Cyprus
  10. 15. air bag inside the outer envelope of an airship
  11. 16. Type of plane: Avro Lancaster, Bristol Blenheim
  12. 17. First RAF Jet aircraft
  13. 19. Technical planner, vital to RAF
  14. 22. group of soldiers
  15. 24. Double rotor military helicopter
  16. 26. thrust producer
  17. 28. Abbreviation for Miss Tebay's rank
  18. 30. RAF flying ace, training section platoon
  19. 33. Officer rank with single thin line on rank slide
  20. 35. Seize (aircraft)
  21. 37. Abbreviation for the American RAF
  22. 38. RAF college in Lincolnshire
  23. 39. Cockpit occupant
  24. 42. airplane measurement
  25. 44. Rigid airships that bombed London
  26. 46. Volatile gas used in the Hindenburg
  27. 47. "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" clouds
  28. 49. angular turn motion about vertical axis