I was stationed outside Hamburg, with an RAF maintenance unit.

我当时随英国皇家空军的维修部队，驻扎在汉堡市郊区。

There the plane was serviced by Imperial Airways along with members of the British RAF.

在里，这架飞机的检查由帝国航空公司和英国皇家空军的成员负责。

In 1952, the RAF was grounded out of respect for King George VI.

1952 年，出于对国王乔治六世的尊重，皇家空军被停飞。

The planes taking part ranged from a 68-year-old Spitfire to the RAF's newest aircraft, the Typhoon.

从服役68年之久的“喷火”战斗机到英国皇家空军最新式飞机“”都参与了此次飞行表演。

The RAF, the Army, the Royal Navy, the Beefeaters, the Gurkhas —everyone will take part.

英国皇家空军、陆军、皇家海军、御用侍从卫士、廓尔喀人——每个人都将参加。

Number six is RAF ghost plane.

第六名是英国皇家空军幽灵飞机。

And the RAF? You could ask them.

空军呢? 您可以问他们。

An RAF plane searched for the missing men.

【search，searcher】一架皇家空军的飞机搜寻了踪者。

" My father was an RAF pilot and my cousin the skipper of a Lancaster lost over Berlin, " he adds.

“我的父亲是英国皇家飞行员，我的堂兄是兰卡斯特机长，曾在柏林上空联，” 他补充道。

He joined the RAF on bombing missions and followed the 4th Infantry across Normandy in the wake of the D-Day invasions.

他加入了英国皇家空军执行了轰炸任务，还在诺曼底登陆日后，着第四步兵师穿越了诺曼底。

The newly created RAF only had a limited role to play in the war in the end, though.

不过，新成立的英国皇家空军最终在战争中发挥的作用有限。

The pilots in the RAF reached the limits of exhaustion and then went beyond those limits, still fighting.

这皇家空军的飞行员已经到了疲劳的极限，却还在超越自身的极限，继续战斗。

Henry sighs. " In school, we all went by Wales. Philip is Lieutenant Windsor in the RAF now, though."

亨利叹了口气。 “在学校里，我们都叫威尔士。不过，菲利普现在是英国皇家空军的温莎中尉。”

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also watched one of the biggest flypasts in recent years to mark the 90th anniversary of the RAF.

女王和爱丁堡公爵还观看了近年来最壮观的飞行表演，此次表演是为了纪念英国皇家空军90周年。

The first pair of Tornados took off from RAF Akrotiri just over an hour after MPs authorized military action against Islamic State targets in Syria.

就在议会通过空袭提案的一小时后，两架“龙卷”在亚克罗提利皇家空军基地起飞。

They had the English Channel as a barrier against the Nazi ground forces, and they had the Royal Air Force (RAF) to battle the Nazis in the sky.

他们有英吉利海峡这道抵挡纳粹地面部队的天然屏障，还有皇家空军在空中与纳粹作战。

He was especially critical of the failure to create a new modern, well-appointed British air-force and the rapidity with which the German Luftwaffe overtook the British RAF from 1935 onwards.

他尤其批评英国未能建立一支装备精良的现代化新空军，以及德国空军从 1935 年起迅速超越英国皇家空军。

Today, it is also a microcosm of the climate culture wars, thanks to a fierce tussle over the fate of Manston airport a former RAF base that played a pivotal role in the Battle of Britain.

今天，它也是气候文化战争的一个缩影，这要归功于对曼斯顿机场命运的激烈争论，该机场曾是英国皇家空军基地，在不列颠之战中发挥了关键作用。

If the Queen dies abroad, a BAe 146 jet from the RAF's No 32 squadron, known as the Royal Flight, will take off from Northolt, at the western edge of London, with a coffin on board.

如果女王在国外去世，英国皇家空军 32 号中队的一架 BAe 146 喷气式飞机将从伦敦西部边缘的诺索尔特起飞，机上配有灵柩。

They then expanded to include nearly four miles of tunnels over the course of the war, and that included a hospital section and a combined headquarters for the army and the RAF as well as the Navy.

然后，它们扩大到包括战争过程中近四英里的隧道，其中包括一个医院分区以及陆军、英国皇家空军和海军的联合总部。