KEIGHLEY Men's Forum is flying high.
Members were given a talk about 100 years of the RAF.
Speaker George Martin, who was making a return visit to the forum, spent more than 30 years with the service.
He explained that the RAF was founded in 1918, towards the end of the First World War, when its aircraft were mainly used for reconnaissance purposes and occasionally dropping small bombs by hand on the enemy.
Most of the aircraft were gifted to commonwealth countries after the war, and numerous personnel were demobbed.
During the Second World War the de Havilland Spitfire, which had been breaking airspeed records in the late 1930s, played a major role in winning The Battle of Britain.
And as the war progressed, aircraft were involved in daring raids in Europe – such as the Dambusters operation, said Mr Martin.
He was thanked by forum president, Dave W Smith.
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