So the RAF formed out of the army and navy?
How about the pilots nowadays? Is there one central training place for pilots from all three arms or do they train separately?
As a non military person and without wishing to offend any of the other branches of the military there's something so viscerally cool about the R.A.F. I guess it's the noise and speed and other worldlyness of planes. It's probably partly to do with the mythology of the Spitfire and the battle...