| No. 3 Squadron |
 | | Role | Offensive Support | | Aircraft | Typhoon F2 | | Home station | RAF Coningsby | | Motto | Tertius primus erit (Latin: "The third shall be the first") | | Badge | On a monolith, a cockatrice | | History | | Founded | 18 May 1912 (RFC) | | Notable Battle Honours | Western Front 1914-1918, Mons, Somme 1918, Low Countries 1940, Battle of Britain 1940, Normandy 1944, Arnhem, France and Germany 1944-1945, Iraq 2003 | No. 3 (F) Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Typhoon F2 from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire. This image is Crown copyright protected. ...
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers, Eurofighter GmbH, formed in 1983. ...
RAF Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England. ...
Latin is an ancient Indo-European language. ...
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers, Eurofighter GmbH, formed in 1983. ...
RAF Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England. ...
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ...
History No. 3 Squadron (Royal Flying Corps) was formed at Larkhill in May 1912 from No 2 Company of the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers. 3 Sqn was actually the first squadron to receive heavier than air flying machines, hence the motto "Tertius primus erit", meaning "The third shall be the first". Sent to France on the outbreak of the First World War, the squadron initially operated in the reconnaissance role using a variety of aircraft types. Later, with the introduction of Sopwith Camels, a fighter/scout role was taken on. The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of World War I. Origin and Early History Formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912, the RFC superseded the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. ...
Larkhill is a village in Wiltshire, England, on the edge of Salisbury Plain. ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire Canada France Italy Russian Empire United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Sir Arthur Currie John Jellicoe Ferdinand Foch Nicholas II Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar Potiorek Ä°smail Enver Ferdinand I...
A Sopwith Camel at the Imperial War Museum in London. ...
The inter-war years saw the squadron operate a variety of different types, based in the UK. The only highlight of these years was the 1935 deployment to the Sudan during the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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World War II began with 3 Sqn in Scotland with the Hawker Hurricane, as part of Fighter Command. The squadron took part in the Battle of Britain, and later in the war, equipped now with Tempests, it shot down several hundred German V1 flying bombs over England. This article is becoming very long. ...
The Hawker Hurricane is a fighter design from the 1930s which was used extensively by the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. ...
Fighter Command was one of three functional commands that dominated the public perception of the RAF for much of the mid-20th century. ...
Combatants United Kingdom Germany Commanders Hugh Dowding Hermann Göring Albert Kesselring Strength 700 fighters 1,260 bombers, 316 dive-bombers, 1,089 fighters Casualties 1,547 aircraft, 27,450 civilian dead, 32,138 wounded 2,698 aircraft One of the major campaigns of the early part of World War...
Hawker Tempest II, RAF Museum, Hendon The Hawker Tempest was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter aircraft of World War II, an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, and one of the most powerful fighters used in the war. ...
The term V1 can refer to: The V-1 flying bomb, the first modern cruise missile, developed by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War Decision speed, where an aircraft pilot must opt to abort the take-off or continue the run for lift-off at V2 speed. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification - by Athelstan AD927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi - Water (%) Population...
The squadron moved onto jets with the De Havilland Vampire during 1948, in Germany, where it had remained after moving there in the latter stages of the war. Sabres and Hunters replaced the Vampires during the 1950s, followed by Gloster Javelins and then a conversion onto Canberra bombers. The de Havilland Vampire, or DH.100, was the second jet-engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II (the first being the Gloster Meteor), although it did not see combat in that conflict. ...
Sixteen Hunters of the RAF Black Arrows perform aerobatics at the Farnborough Air Show, England. ...
The Gloster Javelin was an interceptor aircraft that served with Britains Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. ...
The English Electric Canberra was a first-generation jet bomber manufactured in large numbers through the 1950s, and as of 2006 some still remain in service. ...
3 Sqn's association with the Harrier began in the early 1970s with the Harrier GR1. The squadron received the later GR3 and GR5 model Harriers successively at its Gutersloh base, finally receiving the GR7 and relocating to Laarbruch in the 1990s. In the 1999, with the drawdown of the RAF in Germany, 3 Sqn moved back to the UK along with its sister 4 Sqn. The two squadrons operated at RAF Cottesmore, being joined by the other Harrier operator, 1 Sqn, in 2001. RAF Harrier GR7 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier and the AV-8A are the first part of the Harrier series, a ground-breaking close-support and reconnaissance fighter aircraft with matchless V/STOL capabilities. ...
RAF Harrier GR7 The Harrier GR5, GR7, GR7A, GR9 and GR9A are all Royal Air Force variants of the BAE Systems/Boeing Harrier II. The Aircraft was solely designed and built by British Aerospace, though the US eventually purchased them, as well (In US service, they go by the designation...
Gütersloh is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, capital of the Gütersloh district. ...
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RAF Cottesmore is a Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England. ...
Once upon a time, there was a place called Mount Olympus, which was far up in the sky on a mountain. ...
No. 3 Sqn, as part of Joint Force Harrier, operated alongside the Fleet Air Arm Sea Harriers, and itself was capable of deployment from the Royal Navy aircraft carriers. Operations have included Operation Allied Force over Kosovo in 1999, Operation Basilica over Sierra Leone in 2000 and Operation Telic over Iraq in 2003. In August 2004 it was announced that 6 Harriers will be deployed to Afghanistan in support of NATO forces. Missing image RAF Harrier GR7 Joint Force Harrier is a defence proposal brought by the British Government as part of Strategic Defence Review. ...
The BAE Systems Sea Harrier is a naval VTOL/STOVL jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
An USAF F-15E takes off from Aviano, Italy Operation Allied Force aka Kosovo-NATO War was NATOs military operation against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that lasted from 24 March to 11 June 1999 and is considered a major part of Kosovo War. ...
Kosovo (Albanian: Kosovë/Kosova, Serbian: КоÑово и Метохија/Kosovo i Metohija) is one of two autonomous provinces in Serbia (the other being Vojvodina, in northern Serbia). ...
Operation Telic is the codename under which all British operations of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and after are being conducted. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
No. 3 Sqn became the first operational front line squadron equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon on March 31 2006. 3(F) Sqn is due to be declared operational in 2007. Its Harrier GR7s have now been passed to the Fleet Air Arm to be used by the recommissioned 800 Naval Air Squadron. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers, Eurofighter GmbH, formed in 1983. ...
March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ...
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The Fleet Air Arm is the operational group of the Royal Navy responsible for the operation of the aircraft on board their ships. ...
No 800 Squadron Naval Air Service was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed on 3 April 1933 by amalgamating Nos 402 and 404 (Fleet Fighter) Flights. ...
Previous Aircraft Operated A Sopwith Camel at the Imperial War Museum in London. ...
The Sopwith Snipe was a single-seat bi-plane fighter of the Royal Air Corps (RAC), designed and built by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War and was arguably the definitive fighter of the Allied side by the end of World War I. // History The Snipe was...
// Initial Design The Hawker Woodcock was designed as a night fighter in 1922. ...
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General History The Bristol Bulldog was a Royal Air Force (RAF) single-seat biplane fighter designed during the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, with over three hundred Bulldogs produced, that arguably became the most famous aircraft during the RAFs inter-war period. ...
Gloster Gladiator photographed in England in 2002 The Gloster Gladiator was a biplane fighter, used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, as well as a number of other air forces, during World War II. The aircraft had a top speed of around 414 km/h. ...
The Hawker Hurricane is a fighter design from the 1930s which was used extensively by the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. ...
The Typhoon was a British single-seat fighter aircraft, produced by Hawker Aviation starting in 1941. ...
Hawker Tempest II, RAF Museum, Hendon The Hawker Tempest was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter aircraft of World War II, an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, and one of the most powerful fighters used in the war. ...
The de Havilland Vampire, or DH.100, was the second jet-engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II (the first being the Gloster Meteor), although it did not see combat in that conflict. ...
The North American F-86 Sabre was a subsonic combat aircraft developed for the US Air Force. ...
Sixteen Hunters of the RAF Black Arrows perform aerobatics at the Farnborough Air Show, England. ...
The Gloster Javelin was an interceptor aircraft that served with Britains Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. ...
The English Electric Canberra was a first-generation jet bomber manufactured in large numbers through the 1950s, and as of 2006 some still remain in service. ...
RAF Harrier GR7 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier and the AV-8A are the first part of the Harrier series, a ground-breaking close-support and reconnaissance fighter aircraft with matchless V/STOL capabilities. ...
RAF Harrier GR7 The Harrier GR5, GR7, GR7A, GR9 and GR9A are all Royal Air Force variants of the BAE Systems/Boeing Harrier II. The Aircraft was solely designed and built by British Aerospace, though the US eventually purchased them, as well (In US service, they go by the designation...
See also This is a list of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons. ...
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