WAir Commodore Peter Malam "Pete" Brothers, was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. Brothers was credited with 16 aerial victories, 10 of which he achieved during the Battle of Britain.
WAir Commodore Charles Henry Clarke, was a British Royal Air Force officer. Having served in Bomber Command in the Second World War, he was shot down and interned at Stalag Luft III—this was The Great Escape camp and he acted as a watcher but was not involved in the escape itself. He remained in the RAF after the war, commanded RAF Stafford, served in Palestine, Aden and Malta, before retiring in 1978. He later campaigned for a memorial to Bomber Command: one was finally erected in 2012 in London.
WAir Commodore Barbara Cooper, is a retired Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and former Commandant of the Air Cadet Organisation. She was promoted to air commodore in 2008 and became the RAF's highest-ranking female. She became the Assistant Chief of Staff (Manning) at Air Command headquarters. She previously served at the tri-service military Defence Academy in Shrivenham as Division Director.
WGeoffrey Strickland Cooper OBE was a Royal Air Force officer of the post-Second World War era who as a fighter pilot saw action in the Middle East and Malaya.
WAir Commodore Alan Christopher "Al" Deere, was a New Zealand fighter ace with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He was also notable for the number of near death experiences he had during the course of the war. This led to his published autobiography being titled Nine Lives.
WAir Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, was a Scottish nobleman and aviator who, together with D.F. McIntyre, was one of the first men to fly over Mount Everest.
WAir Commodore Richard David Mason OBE is a Royal Air Force officer.
WAir Commodore Dawn Allison McCafferty, is a former officer in both the RAF Reserve and the regular Royal Air Force. She was appointed as Commandant Air Cadets in August 2012, taking over from Barbara Cooper. She retired in July 2020 and was succeeded by Gp Capt John Lawlor as Acting Commandant.
WAir Commodore Jayne Millington was an air defence specialist with the Royal Air Force who was deputy chief of staff at NATO Allied Air Command in Germany after which she became UK national military representative at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium. She was closely involved with the ThrustSSC land speed record attempt.
WAir Commodore Michael John Smeath is a senior Royal Air Force officer.
WAir Commodore Ian Richard William Stewart is a retired British Royal Air Force officer. His last posting was as the United Kingdom National Military Representative at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. He was Commandant Air Cadets between 2008 and 2010, and Air Commodore, Royal Air Force Reserve from 2014.
WAir Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, was an English Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Hans von Ohain who was the designer of the first operational turbojet engine.