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1935 RAF Pageant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/6

Footage of the 1935 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes an in-flight refuelling demonstration by a Westland Wallace and a Hawker Hart and formation aerobatics by Bristol Bulldog aircraft.

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Recorded account of the first commercial charter flight from London to Paris, made by Captain Henry Shaw, January 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/67

Recording in which Captain Henry “Jerry” Shaw tells the story of the first commercial charter flight from London to Paris, for which he was the pilot.

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Fly in of Blackburn Beverley XH124 at Hendon, 1968

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/52

Amateur colour film in which an RAF Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft (XH124) is seen briefly passing overhead before approaching low over hangars, landing and taxiing at RAF Hendon in 1968.

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1928 RAF Pageant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/3

Footage of the 1928 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes flypasts, aerobatics, a low-flying Avro 504, the destruction of a balloon and an attack on structures on the airfield.

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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander A.J. Edmunds, part one, 22 October 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/9

Interview with Wing Commander A.J. Edmunds, who worked as an air taxi pilot and ground engineer during the 1930s. During the Second World War he was an RAF ground engineer.

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RAF Hendon sequences, 1957

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/58/11

RAF officers and several aircraft are seen at RAF Hendon as flying operations ended, including a de Havilland Devon, a Sopwith Camel, an Avro Anson and a de Havilland Chipmunk.

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Royal Air Force Display Hendon, 25 June 1932

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/66/8

Footage of the 1932 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes formation aerobatics, a display by Gugnunc, autogyro and Pterodactyl experimental aircraft and the destruction of a large observation balloon.

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R.A.F. Pageant June 1934

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/2

Footage of the 1934 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes displays of parachuting from Vickers Virginia bomber aircraft, formation aerobatics and flypasts and the destruction of a large balloon.

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RAF 1933 and 1934 Air Displays, Hendon

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/148

Film taken during the 1933 and 1934 RAF air displays at RAF Hendon shows RAF aircraft in the air and on the ground, and the destruction of a barrage balloon.

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Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 13 July 1929

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3276

Footage of the 1929 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes aerobatics, formation flying, ‘crazy flying’, parachuting, mock aerial combat, attacks on ground targets and the destruction of a balloon.

Image pending