Air Fighting Development Unit
Encyclopedia
The Air Fighting Development Unit (AFDU) was an air technical intelligence
part of the Royal Air Force
which developed operational tactics and tested captured enemy aircraft. It was based at Royal Air Force Stations at Northolt
, Duxford
and Wittering
.
Operation Banquet
The Air Fighting Development Unit
, under Operation Banquet anti-invasion plans, was allocated the title No. 550 Squadron RAF
.
Military intelligence
Military intelligence is a military discipline that exploits a number of information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to commanders in support of their decisions....
part of the Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
which developed operational tactics and tested captured enemy aircraft. It was based at Royal Air Force Stations at Northolt
RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station situated in South Ruislip, east by northeast of Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, West London. Approximately north of London Heathrow Airport, the station also handles a large number of private civil flights...
, Duxford
Duxford Aerodrome
Duxford Aerodrome is located south of Cambridge, within the Parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly west of the village.The airfield is owned jointly by the Imperial War Museum and Cambridgeshire County Council and it is the site of the Imperial War Museum Duxford and the American...
and Wittering
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station within the unitary authority area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Although Stamford in Lincolnshire is the nearest town, the runways of RAF Wittering cross the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire....
.
Operation BanquetOperation BanquetOperation Banquet was a British plan to use every available aircraft in a last ditch effort to repel an expected German invasion in 1940 or 1941. During the Second World War, in May 1940, the Air Ministry realised that beyond the normal reserves of the Royal Air Force , it may be necessary to throw...
The Air Fighting Development UnitAir Fighting Development Unit
The Air Fighting Development Unit was an air technical intelligence part of the Royal Air Force which developed operational tactics and tested captured enemy aircraft. It was based at Royal Air Force Stations at Northolt, Duxford and Wittering....
, under Operation Banquet anti-invasion plans, was allocated the title No. 550 Squadron RAF
No. 550 Squadron RAF
No. 550 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War II.-History:No. 550 squadron was formed at RAF Waltham , Lincolnshire on 25 November 1943 from 'C' Flight of 100 Squadron. Equipped with Avro Lancasters, they began operating in the same month, as part of No. 1...
.