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<p>world's second independent air force (after the <a href="page.php?w=Finnish_Air_Force">Finnish Air Force</a> founded on 16 March 1918).</p>

<p>It was replaced by the <a href="page.php?w=Fleet_Air_Arm">Fleet Air Arm</a>, initially consisting of those RAF units that normally operated from ships, but emerging as a separate unit similar to the original RNAS by the time of the <a href="page.php?w=Second_World_War">Second World War</a>.</p>

<p><big> History </big></p>
<p><big> Background </big></p>
<p>On 21 July 1908 Captain <a href="page.php?w=Reginald_Bacon">Reginald Bacon</a>,</p><p>
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