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Aircrew Helmet Mark 4B

Aircraft & Exhibits, Array, 1996/0423/U

Aircrew protective helmet consisting of a rigid glass fibre shell painted green. Styrene liner with nylon webbing neck strap and cradle to separate head from lining. Leather covered foam pads front and rear. Ear capsules, fitted with finger loops to aid donning, are attached via Velcro pads to nylon straps which can be loosed by external clips on each side of the helmet. Wired for use with US radio equipment while receivers for US J-Type oxygen mask bayonets have been added to the sides of the helmet. Helmet is fitted with a twin visor assembly with controls in housing on the left. A cross of reflective tape is fitted to the top of the helmet. Chin strap with quick locking buckle and Velcro adjustment.

Flying Helmet Type C

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1996/0433/U

Brown leather helmet lined in chamois constructed in strips passing from front to rear of the wearer's head with a brow band, lined in velvet. Fitted with circular, black rubber telephone holders. Connector Type 2808 combined microphone and telephone wiring attached to the centre rear of the helmet and is then fed through press studded tabs and channels to the earphones and to a microphone plug below the left ear. Three male press studs on left side of face aperture for connection of Type G/H Oxygen mask. Right side fitted with hook to receive loop from mask harness. Centre rear fitted with short buckled strap to retain goggles strap. Two vertical leather tabs sewn at top and with press studs at bottom placed behind telephone holders to steady goggles strap. This example fitted with jack plug.

Cowl Type, Ptn 1916, Converted

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 70/U/258

Helmet substantially modified to convert it from a cowl type into a cap type helmet. Brown leather cap type helmet lined in chamois at the crown and in fur at neck, ears and forehead. Ear flaps, covering single, large round hole, pierced by nine holes arranged in a circle, retained by press studs: the flaps having cylindrical wind deflectors on their front, vertical edge. Adjustable leather strap with buckles at left upper, outer corner of face aperture but the right side one removed. A chin strap (right) and buckle (left) added at the lower front corners. The front of the helmet decorated with a black cat lucky charm cut from thick felt with a red collar and glass eyes. Condition -good, worn, dirty inside and very faded, but displayable.

Incomplete text of speech given by AM Sir John Maitland Salmond to the first Royal Air Force Iraq dinner, 27 June 1925

Archives, In Storage, A1050

Six manuscript sheets.

Sketch book believed from possessions of FS Norman Jennings, containing pencil and ink sketches of RAF Station life, 1943-1944

Archives, In Storage, X002-6831

Twenty-six page hard backed sketch book with brown covers.

Set of five invitations, with one menu, to Gen Sir William Sefton Brancker, as the British delegate to the International Aerial Navigation Commission meeting in Rome, 1923

Archives, In Storage, A547

Six printed cards.

List of qualifications and of societies, associations, clubs etcetera of which Gp Capt Conrad Edward Howe Verity was a member, n.d.

Archives, In Storage, AC84/1/1/5

Six page manuscript.

P.R.4 biographical file on Air Cdre John Lawrence Wemyss Ellacombe, 1951-1973

Archives, In Storage, DC76/74/326

Six typescript sheets in a buff file. No access to record of service.

P.R.4 biographical file on Air Cdre Harold Martin Russell, 1958-1963

Archives, In Storage, DC76/74/892

Six typescript and mauscript sheets in a buff file. No access to record of service.

P.R.4 biographical file on Air Cdre Ivoe Curtis Bird, 1949-1950

Archives, In Storage, DC76/74/110

Six typescript and manuscript sheets in a buff file. No access to record of service.