The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air force.. It was replaced by the Fleet Air Arm, initially consisting of those …

The Blackburn B-25 Roc was a British Second World War-era Fleet Air Arm fighter aircraft designed by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd.It took its name from the mythical bird of the tales of the Arabian Nights, the Roc.Derived from the Blackburn Skua and developed in parallel, the Roc had its armament in a turret.The Roc came to be viewed as inferior to existing aircraft such as the …