[
US
/ˈɹæf/
]
NOUN
- the airforce of Great Britain
- a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
How To Use RAF In A Sentence
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- I was always a bit arty-crafty. Times, Sunday Times
- The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
- The maximum penalty for running grog into a restricted area is $1000 or six months for a first offence, and $2000 or 12 months for a second, plus forfeiture of the vehicle or aircraft.
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
