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USAF, HGU-33P
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X008-4484
HGU-33 Glass fibre helmet shell fitted with a single visor assembly (knob missing) and receivers for US J-type oxygen mask bayonets. Visor cover painted with a tiger's head motif and the rest of the helmet is painted with tiger stripes.
Rolls-Royce R Engine
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 65/E/1139
1,900/2,350 hp twelve cylinder liquid cooled V-type racing engine on display stand. Front half of gear housing is actualy a wooden replica replacement. Inspection November 2017 noted some chipping and separation/visible jointing of this section.
Compact, Powder, Presentation, with RAF Wings
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X006-0092
Square silver compact with golden RAF badge mounted on the centre of the lid. Small golden thumb catch and polished metal interior with sifter and a mirror mounted to the reverse of the lid. Comes with case.
Unit Badge
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X004-6286
Woven as a triangular patch with rounded corners, a cartoon figure of an eagle in overalls standing on a Jaguar aircraft with a sunburst behind. On a pale blue border START IT + FINISH IT GROUNDCREW in green lettering. Lock-stitched all round in black.
Steel Helmet Mark II
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 78/U/848
Shallow domed (non magnetic) steel shell with stainless steel lip. Fitted with a Mk.II oil skin liner and lining securing bolt with a Mk.II sprung adjustable chin strap. Covered in rough matt green sand paint.
Service Dress Hat of Women's Royal Air Force Other Ranks
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1998/0253/U
Low-crowned round hat with brim made up from B/G fabric. The brim stiffened with numerous rows of concentric stitching and turned up all round except at the front. With black woollen band and staybrite badge.
Letter to Miss Sheila Tremaine as a child from Cpl Wladyslaw Ciesielski, a Polish airman serving with her father at RAF Cranwell, 30 January 1944
Archives, London, Hangar One, X002-9395
Manuscript letter on headed paper showing the RAF and Polish Air Force badges. Previously folded.
Viewer, Stereoscopic
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 81/I/626
Vertical rectangular wooden box fitted with "binocular" type eye piece at the top front, with an access door (for slides) at the top. Six adjustable knobs on either side rotate the slides and adjust focus. Complete with a box of original bomb damage transparencies.
Queen's Colour Squadron, OR's, B/G
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X008-4737
No 1 Dress Jacket, other ranks, Blue-Grey, complee with Lance Corporal stripes on upper arms and Sierra Leone campaign medal ribbon on left breast. RAF Regiment Shoulder titles, RAF eagle on shoulders, side pockets and breast pockets both sides.
RAF, Mk. I (Mae West)
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1989/0193/S
Yellow cotton waistcoat fastening with three buttons and with tie tapes across the breast and at waist level. The sections over the chest and behind the neck formed as a container for a rubberised fabric, inflatable bladder with a snap-neck gas cylinder in the right lower side and an oral inflation tube in the left breast. The snap-neck lever contained in a housing and the tube passing up round the neck in a fabric sleeve. Zip under neck pocket for access to inner compartments. Two webbing pockets at right side for electric torch and battery holder. Flourescine sea marker pad in a ripping panel on left lower side. Two pairs of webbing tapes front and back to tie between legs. Pair of webbing loop handles on chest for pulling helpless wearer out of water. Small patch pocket on left breast, closing with a press-stud for heliograph mirror. Toggle and cord let into lower left hem for securing to dighy when in the water. Fitted with set of three kapok flotation pads.