RAF - News by Date n 1914, when World War 1 began the aeroplane was so new the British had never used it in battle before. Eager recruits, some as young as seventeen, rushed to join the British army’s new aircraft service – the Royal Flying Corps-and quickly came up against the Red Baron and the German hunting squadrons. By the end of the war in 1918the Royal Air Force had been formed to countera new and terrifying form of warfare and has been a force for good in the world ever since. Fighting the Red Baron - Channel 4 Fighting the Red Baron follows two modern-day, elite Red Arrows pilots as they take on the challenges that faced the aviators of World War I, in order to find out how aerial warfare changed…
