SAAF, noun

/es eɪ eɪ ˈef//sæf/
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Also S.A.A.F.
Initial letters of South African Air Force. Also attributive.
1940 Star 2 Mar. 12The machines transferred from the S.A.A. to the S.A.A.F. are unsuited to our military requirements, being too large, too slow, too expensive and inadequately armed either for offence or defence.
1941 C. Birkby Springbok Victory 103The troops on the ground saw the S.A.A.F. helping them throughout the operation. Our bombers came over early on Dingaan’s Day and plastered El Wak.
1944 ‘Twede in Bevel’ Piet Kolonel 101The sporting soldier-girl (transferred to the S.A.A.F., and unaccountably dressed in yachting clothes).
1945 S. De Wet Shifty in Italy 107I..was distracted by a young S.A.A.F. officer, a trifle merry.
1961 L.C.F. Turner et al. War in Sn Oceans 100The survivors from Brandford City..wrote food and water in large letters on the beach, and on their second day a S.A.A.F. aircraft saw them and dropped its crew’s emergency rations.
1979 Paratus Jan. 27The SAAF also provides a valuable service to the Caprivi government when it provides aircraft to assist in game counting from the air.
1987 S. Afr. Digest 10 July 8The inter-war history of the Union Defence Force was largely one of retrenchment and economy. In 1920, however, the South African Air Force (SAAF) was founded.
1990 Sunday Times 30 Sept. 13The SAAF’s Second World War Spitfire..has changed hands again — this time fetching a whopping R2587000 at an auction in the United States.
Initial letters of South African Air Force. Also attributive.
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