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No. 417 Squadron Air Training Corps badge, Alan Chew
Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Three, X003-1969
Navigator Alan Chew died on 12 August 1944 when his Lancaster was shot down. Prior to joining the RAF Alan was a cadet in his local Air Training Corps squadron, No. 417 based in Bilston.
No. 601 Squadron Pennant
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 76/Y/1825
This pennant was worn by an aircraft participating in an air show at RAF North Weald in 1954. It depicts the County Arms of London beside the Winged Sword of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, whose Meteor fighters were resident at the base at the time.
Gosport Tube Assembly
Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 66/R/608
The Gosport tube was a speaking funnel connected via rubber tubes to ear plates which were fitted inside a pupil's helmet. It allowed the flying instructor in a tandem open cockpit to speak and give their pupil instructions while in the air. Before its introduction, verbal instruction had been impossible.
Commander, Civil, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Badge of Group Captain John Ferguson Barton
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1992/0476/D
Awarded in the New Years Honours List 1953.
RAF, Type G.28 Camera Gun
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 72/I/1640
Gun cameras could be used to record combat or, in the case of this G.28 ‘Lewis’ type gun camera, used to train air gunners in the vital skill of sighting their weapon against a moving target.
Service Dress Cap of a Women's Royal Air Force Air Officer
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X002-8362
In 1949 the gold embroidered badge, patent peak and two rows of embroidered oak leaves identifies the wearer of the newly-formed Women's Royal Air Force as an officer holding the rank of Air Commandant.
Fédération Aéronatique Internationale Medallion, England to Australia Record Flight, 1938
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1994/0364/C
Fédération Aéronatique Internationale Medallion awarded to Flight Lieutenant Henry Hogan, pilot of one of three Vickers Wellesley bombers which took part in an attempt to establish a non-stop world record flight from Egypt to Australia in 1938
Belgian Congo Coffee Beans
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 80/Z/1199
In an effort to raise morale, RAF aircraft would occasionally drop items that had become unobtainable in occupied countries.
Elsanol Chemical Toilet Fluid
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 78/Z/1255
Most multi-crewed aircraft of the 1940s were equipped with an Elsan toilet which required a healthy dose of Elsanol toilet fluid to sanitise the contents.
Service Dress Hat of Women's Auxiliary Air Force Other Ranks
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X003-3619
At its formation in 1939, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force adopted a cap which was reminiscent of the Women's Royal Air Force cap from the First World War.
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