RAF

American  

Or R.A.F.

1. Royal Air Force.

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RAF British  

/ ræf /

abbreviation

1. Royal Air Force

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RAF Cultural  

1. Abbreviation for the British Royal Air Force.

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Example Sentences

The RAF Voyager is the giant petrol station in the sky for the Typhoon and F-35 jets which have been patrolling the skies over Cyprus and Jordan for the past month.

From BBC

Mr. Allport, a historian at Syracuse University, found this lovely missive in the digital archive of RAF Bomber Command, one of the many archives he has culled to put this book together.

From The Wall Street Journal

They use a constellation of satellites from space and powerful radars on the ground - including at RAF Fylingdales in the UK - which can track the missile from launch to target.

From BBC

He did his National Service in the RAF - where he learned spy skills including photography, flying and scuba-diving - before working for brief periods as a railway clerk and an air steward.

From BBC

British sources also point out that aircraft carriers provide a runway where there otherwise wouldn't be one, but the UK has exactly that on land nearby - at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.

From BBC