WWI Recruits of the British Royal Flying Corps Mechanics at Farnborough in their distinctive khaki wrap-over tunics. The Royal Naval Air Service or RNAS was the air arm of the Royal Navy. under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally in April 1918, it merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps and became the world's first independent air force, the Royal Air Force,

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