Royal Air Force Quotes

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

I remember, as a kid, we would go and watch the Red Arrows, and I thought it was similar to British wrestlers and the acrobatic division.

I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

The Red Arrows are the acrobatic division of the Royal Air Force in England.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.