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Jig, Propeller Laminating
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X002-7578
Clamp for holding propellers during construction and glueing for laminating. Consists of very large, thick wooden base plate, supported on 17 transverse sections of angle iron, and above, 16 individual screw-down iron clamps to press down the propeller sections. Each with wooden chocks to support and fit around the prop.
Card and envelope with two German rifle bullets which struck Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté's 3 Squadron aircraft whilst over the battlefield of Mons, 23 August 1914
Archives, London, Hangar Two, AC71/14/2/10
Manuscript card and two bullets (one flattened) in envelope.
Tropical, Wolseley, OR's, Ptn 1918
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 70/U/1081
Cotton-covered, domed cork helmet with broad brim, pointed at the front and square at the back, having a domed ventilator button in the top. Leather chin strap. The interior lined in heat dissipating aluminium foil with a leather head band. Pugaree with RFC flash on the left.
Type T52a
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 1996/0200/R
Rectangular wood and bakelite sealed box with hinged side compartment having key and battery terminals. A spiral inductor is mounted on the face with earth, spark gap adjuster, and aerial clip terminals and two moveable clips. A window on one side allows viewing of the spark gap with aerial tuner knob.
Satchel, Tools, RMAC
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 70/U/490
Gusseted webbing and leather bag with double buckled flap and leather adjustable shoulder strap. Issued for use with the Lewis and Hotchkiss Machine Guns?. On the inside back of the bag are 3 pockets for (from left to right) oilcan, cleaning materials and tin box containing small spare parts.
Norman, Vane Type
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 69/I/395
Norman Deflection Foresight 1915. Black metal carriage, supporting brass plate made from three sections, two semi circular and one rectangular with rounded ends. The rotating carriage is in four sections, and has a large spike protruding, with a red circular sighting ball on the tip. The base has a crew fitting.
Motorcyclist, Drab, Ptn 1917
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 66/U/310
Khaki peaked cap with soft crown gathered into a band. Fabric front peak reinforced by multiple rows of stitching, and plain, rear peak, latter turned up. Adjustable, fabric chin strap secured with tiny General Service Pattern buttons at each end, turned up over peak.
RFC, Private Purchase
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X003-1683
Brown leather, combination type gauntlet with mitten extension for the fingers. The interior lined in woollen fabric. The whole of the outer, back part of the hand including the thumb covered in fur. The mitten pouch also lined in fur. Left hand. The palm at the base of the thumb very neatly patched with leather.
Wing Spar
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 78/C/944
Split oblong section of ash aircraft wing spar embedded with enemy bullet and held together with string. Written in ink pen is "Strut of Aeroplane, hit by enemy's bullet, Pilot-Capt. L da C. Penn-Gaskell Royal Flying Corps GREAT WAR 1915. Four small holes for metal fittings can be seen in the centre, two either side.
Royal Flying Corps, Emb., Ptn 1912
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 73/U/89
On a patch of black melton cut to shape, the words ROYAL FLYING CORPS embroidered in off-white arranged in two lines, the upper, first two words, curved, the lower straight. The back reinforced with gummed skrim and the letters embroidered through. Still attached to a scrap of khaki serge.