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  • R.N.A.S.
    R.N.A.S.
    abbreviation
    Royal Naval Air Service.
  • RNAS
    RNAS
    abbreviation
    Royal Naval Air Service(s)

R.N.A.S.

American  

abbreviation

British.
  1. Royal Naval Air Service.


RNAS British  

abbreviation

  1. Royal Naval Air Service(s)

  2. Royal Naval Air Station

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She had mischievously enough, allowed Captain Ross to go on thinking that the young R.N.A.S. officer had held her hand....

From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

"Show——?" said Olwen, forgetting for a second that she had been taken to the theatre by Mr. Ellerton, the young R.N.A.S. officer.

From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

The great feat of Sub-Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, R.N.A.S., who single-handed attacked and destroyed a Zeppelin, has already been referred to in Chapter XIII.

From The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton

Wandered down to Vlamertinghe this morning early to see about some sandbags, and while I was there I met that flying wallah Petersen in the R.N.A.S.

From Men, Women and Guns by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

Bombing raids had always been looked on with favour by the R.N.A.S. and were used throughout the war as a means of countering hostile aircraft operations from bases in Belgium.

From Aviation in Peace and War by Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

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