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Beer Mat from RAF Gan

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1975-1976, London, Hangar One, X002-3492

One of the remotest of these was RAF Gan, an airfield clinging to an atoll of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

White circular cardboard disc with light blue motif featuring a palm tree, © RAF Museum

Anglo-American Airlift, Berlin

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 79/C/304

This plate was produced to mark the achievement of the Berlin Airlift.

Image of a painted commemorative dining plate., Unknown

Berlin Airlift 1948

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 79/C/303

This plate was produced to mark the achievement of the Berlin Airlift.

Image of a painted commemorative dining plate., Unknown

Swagger Stick of Other Ranks

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 79/U/2149

The swagger stick was originally carried by non-commissioned ranks as part of their walking out (off-duty) uniform. Carrying the stick was designed to give an air of respectability and authority, hence use of the term swagger. The practice was discontinued in the RAF between the First and Second World Wars.

Wooden cane with a small silver ball at the top and a brass ferrule at the bottom, © RAF Museum

P-51 Mustang Canopy

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 71/A/508

Canopy rail from a P-51 Mustang flown by Captain Howard ‘Pete’ Wiggins, who joined the USAAF in 1942. As part of the US Army 8th Air Force, Howard Wiggins flew fighter aircraft such as P-51 Mustangs and P-47 Thunderbolts on bomber escort missions from bases in the UK.

Aircraft canopy on a stand, broken glass, two metal arches, metal surround, blue paint and rusting, Iain Duncan

RAF, Mk. 10, Immersion Suit worn by Gp Capt Bob Iveson, 1982

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Six, 1993/0606/U

Immersion suits are worn by pilots in case they have to eject over water. Bob Iveson wore this Immersion Suit when flying Hawker-Siddeley Harriers during the Falklands Conflict, 1982.

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Tapestry depicting a Short Sunderland

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1996/0236/C

Hand embroidered coloured tapestry depicting an RAF Short Sunderland aircraft flying over the sea above a surfaced submarine.

hand embroidered coloured tapestry depicting an RAF Short Sunderland aircraft flying over the sea above a surfaced submarine, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

Westland Whirlwind HAR.10

Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1961-DEC 1981, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1987/0012/A

This airframe is the first Bristol Siddeley Gnome engined Whirlwind HAR.10 aircraft to have been manufactured. It made its first flight on 28 March 1961. The Whirlwind HAR.10 was so successful that it remained in RAF service for 21 years, the last squadron converting to the Westland Wessex in 1982

Westland Whirlwind HAR 10 on display at Hendon, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Westland Lysander Mk. III

Aircraft & Exhibits, AUG 1940-1971, In Storage, 74/A/21

Westland Lysanders are best known for transporting secret agents to and from occupied France during the Second World War. This Lysander first flew with No. 255 Squadron in 1940, but later flew with No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron from October 1944.

Port side view of Westland Lysander on a white background., © RAF Museum

The Enigma Machine

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1940-1945, London, Hangar Five, 82/R/503

Engima was the trade name for the cypher machine used by the Germans to code their communications, the codes of which changed daily. British listening stations intercepted messages which were then passed to cryptographers at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park to decode.

Metal machine with individual keys for each letter and interconnecting wires, inside a wooden box, © RAF Museum

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