The Future of the Staff Ride in the RAF
Jun 2008, Vol. 153, No. 3
By Neville Parton
Although the first mention of staff rides in an official RAF document occurs extremely early on in the history of the service, and at the very highest of levels,
over the subsequent nine decades in fact very little use was made of what was
predominantly seen as an Army training tool. For those used to the concept of a
classic battlefield tour in which tactical minutiae are examined across the very
ground on which history was made, the idea of repeating the process in an air
power context perhaps conjures up scenes of blue skies, fluffy cumulus, and a tour in an airliner.
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By Neville Parton
Although the first mention of staff rides in an official RAF document occurs extremely early on in the history of the service, and at the very highest of levels,
over the subsequent nine decades in fact very little use was made of what was
predominantly seen as an Army training tool. For those used to the concept of a
classic battlefield tour in which tactical minutiae are examined across the very
ground on which history was made, the idea of repeating the process in an air
power context perhaps conjures up scenes of blue skies, fluffy cumulus, and a tour in an airliner.
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