| 单词 | fleet air arm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFleet Air Arm d. Fleet Air Arm, the branch of the air force formed to operate with the fleet. (First formed 1923; came under the Admiralty's control in 1938.) Abbreviated F.A.A. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] > branches of air arm1913 W.R.A.F1918 Fleet Air Arm1923 Bomber Command1939 WAAF1939 Coastal Command1940 Air Training Corps1941 Fighter Command1941 WASP1943 1923 Rel. Navy & Air Force 2 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 1938) XV. 827, 1. Navy and Air Force..Naval officers belonging to the Fleet Air Arm are therefore to be attached to the Air Service on the nomination of the Admiralty. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 337 The references made..to the activities of the Fleet Air arm were fully justified... It was surprising how tiny a speck on the ocean an aircraft carrier could appear when one had to return to it after a sea reconnaissance. 1939 Navy List Sept. p. xiii F.A.A.—Officers serving with or undergoing training in the Fleet Air Arm. 1940 E. C. Shepherd Britain's Air Power 27 But for the Fleet Air Arm, which is exclusively controlled by the Admiralty, the whole of British Air Power is thus under the direction of a single staff—the Air Staff—and is commanded by R.A.F. 1953 Times 21 May 8/2 The Admiralty has decided to reintroduce the term ‘Fleet Air Arm’ after a lapse of seven years, during which the air forces of the Royal Navy have been known officially as ‘Naval Aviation’. < as lemmas |
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