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No. 101 Squadron Squadron badge Information Role Aircraft Operated Vickers VC10 Home Station RAF Brize Norton Motto "Mens agitat molem (Mind over matter)" History Date Founded 12 July 1917 Badge Notable Battle Honours No. 101 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Vickers VC10 K3 and K4 from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire. Foillowing the disbandment of fellow VC-10 squadron 10 Squadron it is now the only RAF Squadron to operate the type. This image is Crown copyright protected. ... The VC-10 airliner was designed and built by Vickers in the 1960s. ... RAF Brize Norton is a Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire about 50 miles west of London, England, United Kingdom. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The VC-10 airliner was designed and built by Vickers in the 1960s. ... RAF Brize Norton is a Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire about 50 miles west of London, England, United Kingdom. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Latin Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... No. ... 101 Sqn previously operated the Avro Vulcan as part of the V Bomber force. The squadron received the Vulcan B1 in 1958, graduating to the B2 in 1968. Prior to this, they had operated Canberra B2s. The VC10 K2 was delivered to the RAF in 1983, when 101 Squadron was officially reformed. 101 Squadron's VC10s differ from those of 10 Squadron as the K2, K3, and K4 were all civil airliners acquired by the Ministry of Defence for conversion to AAR tankers. The Avro Vulcan was a British-built jet-engined, delta-winged subsonic bomber, once part of the RAFs V bomber force. ... The term V bomber was used for the Royal Air Force aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the UKs strategic nuclear strike force. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... English Electric Canberra B.2. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... No. ... Main Building - The Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, Westminster, London Tri-service badge of the UK armed forces The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and the headquarters of the UK military. ... Aerial refueling, also called in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR), is the practice of transferring fuel from one aircraft to another during flight. ... The VC10 K2, K3 and K4s began their lives with British Airways (delivered to BOAC,) Gulf Air and East African Airways. All were converted by British Aerospace and delivered between 1983 and 1993. British Airways is the largest airline of the United Kingdom. ... After technical problems with the Comet, BOAC resumed jet service with imported Boeing 707s. ... Gulf Air (Arabic: طيران الخليج) is the national carrier airline of Bahrain, Oman, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Notable deployments of 101 Squadron include the Gulf War, Operations Northern & Southern Watch, Operation Allied Force (Kosovo), Operation Desert Fox, Afghanistan, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ... Categories: Stub | 2003 Iraq conflict ... An USAF F-15E takes off from Aviano, Italy Operation Allied Force was NATOs military operation against Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. ... A Tomahawk cruise missile (TLAM) is fired from an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during the fourth wave of attacks on Iraq. ... The 2003 Invasion of Iraq began on March 20 comprising United States and United Kingdom forces (98%), and several other nations. ... 101 Squadron VC10 Variants K2 - Gulf Air Standard VC10s (now retired) K3 - Repossessed East African Airways Super VC10s K4 - Of fourteen BA Super VC10s placed in storage, only five survived to be converted. Gulf Air (Arabic: طيران الخليج) is the national carrier airline of Bahrain, Oman, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ... The VC10 will remain in service with 101 Squadron until around 2008, when the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft is due to start replacing them (most likely the C1s first.) The Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) will provide aerial refueling (AR) and Air Transport (AT) for the Royal Air Force using a version of the Airbus A330 MRTT. The Royal Australian Air Force announced in April 2004 that they had selected Airbus to provide tankers to a similar specification. ... List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons Category: Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons This is a list of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons. ...

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