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Indian Ocean Flying Boat Association - Open to RAF and Commonwealth aircrew, ground staff and WAAF who served with Flying Boats in the Indian Ocean between 1939 and 1959. Information on reunions and other activities, history, membership details and contact information.
RAF Lichfield Association - Dedicated to all those Service and Civilian men and women who served at RAF Lichfield from 1939 until its closure in 1958.
RAF Mountain Rescue Association - Offers past and present members a walk route planner, RAFMRA news and a variety of other useful mountaineering items and links.
Royal Air Force Police Association - The RAF Police Association was formed by serving members of the RAF Police and Provost Branch at a meeting of interested persons held at RAF Newton in 1984. Membership is open to persons who have served, or who are serving, in the Royal Air Force Police, Provost Branch, Admin (Prov & Sy) Branch or Auxiliary Police.
The Royal Air Forces Association - The home page of the Official Website of the Royal Air Forces Association, the leading organization for ex-members of the RAF.
Royal Air Forces Association, Camberley - Local branch of the Royal Air Forces Association in Camberley, Surrey.
Royal Air Forces Association (South Africa) - South African branch of the RAFA.
201 Squadron Association - Online newsletter for ex- and serving members of the RAF's 201 Squadron, also providing articles and a picture library.
202 Squadron Association Royal Air Force - Site for serving and ex members.
207 Squadron Royal Air Force Association - Provides a brief history of the squadron and association, along with news, information on memorial and assistance in tracing ex-members.
99th Entry, RAF Locking Apprentices - Re-union site of the 99th Entry at Locking. Looking for ex-members, contact lists of known ones. Information on reunions and get-togethers.
Women's Auxiliary Air Force Association - The official WAAFA website, dedicated to all the WAAF who lost their lives in the cause of freedom.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin RAF Associations The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) RAF Associations I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch RAF Associations She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez RAF Associations Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac RAF Associations I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and RAF Associations Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human RAF Associations Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. RAF Associations May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery RAF Associations There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton RAF Associations Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) RAF Associations Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton RAF Associations I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill RAF Associations "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died RAF Associations If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. RAF Associations My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show RAF Associations Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin RAF Associations "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball RAF Associations "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick RAF Associations A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) RAF Associations Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any RAF Associations Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life RAF Associations
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