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Aircraft recognition training - Valiant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/25/23

Aircraft recognition training film on the RAF’s Vickers Valiant bomber aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s recognition features. Film shows Valiants in the air and on the ground.

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Aircraft recognition training - Bear

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/25/30

Aircraft recognition training film on the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 bomber aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s recognition features. The Tu-114, the civilian version of the Tu-95, also appears.

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Aircraft recognition training - Vulcan

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/567

Aircraft recognition training film on the Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft, in which Vulcans are seen in the air and on the ground and the aircraft’s key recognition features are highlighted.

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Aircraft recognition training - Victor

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/13

Aircraft recognition training film on the Handley Page Victor bomber aircraft. The prototype Victor is seen in the air and on the ground and the aircraft’s recognition features are highlighted.

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Air Crew Survival at Sea part two: The Multi Seat Dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-4004/002

Training film on survival at sea. The crew of a ditched aircraft board their dinghy and demonstrate survival drills and dinghy features before being found by a maritime patrol aircraft.

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Air Crew Survival at Sea part one: The Single Seat Dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-4004/001

Training film on survival at sea. A pilot ejects from his aircraft and demonstrates the use of features included with his single-seat dinghy before being rescued by a Whirlwind helicopter.

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Aircraft recognition training - Hunter

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/14

A number of RAF aircraft are seen at the 1953 Coronation Review at RAF Odiham, including Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft. Film and animated diagrams highlight the Hunter’s key recognition features.

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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftsman Alfred Edward Wallis Martin, 28 January 2006

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6760

Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftsman Alfred Martin, who served in the RAF as ground crew before the Second World War, including a posting to 99 Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford.

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Defensive Radio Warfare (Radar Aspects) / Anti-Jamming Procedures at Control Stations - Recognition of jamming signals

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3684

Film in which several different methods of radar jamming are described and illustrated for the benefit of RAF radar operators. This includes ‘Window’ and simple, amplitude-modulated, frequency-modulated and pulse-modulated methods.

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Recorded interview with Joyce Cesarani, 27 March 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6741

Recorded interview with Joyce Cesarani, who served as a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force driver and Educational and Vocational Training instructor at RAF Portreath during and after the Second World War.

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