{"id":2577,"date":"2023-04-02T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:11:08","slug":"celebrating-105-years-of-the-royal-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/celebrating-105-years-of-the-royal-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 105 years of the Royal Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-23\/RIAT-Typhoon.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT Typhoon\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a very important day in the aviation calendar, as we wish happy 105th birthday to the Royal Air Force, who were formed on\u00a01st April 1918.<\/p>\n<p>The RAF are a major part of RIAT each year with their presence felt in all areas of the show, from their world-class flying displays to all those who proudly represent them on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>We have already confirmed the Red Arrows and a Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4, as well as a Hurricane, Spitfire, and Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight for July&#8217;s show. Keep an eye out for further updates in the coming weeks!<\/p>\n<p>The RAF Experience will also return to Fairford, providing the opportunity to meet serving personnel, discover the career and sporting opportunities available, and discuss their day-to-day roles and experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a very important day in the aviation calendar, as we wish happy 105th birthday to the Royal Air Force, who were formed on\u00a01st April 1918. The RAF are a major part of RIAT each year with their presence felt in all areas of the show, from their world-class flying displays to all those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/celebrating-105-years-of-the-royal-air-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating 105 years of the Royal Air Force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[331,61,10,179],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-331","tag-march","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}