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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Brian Spurway, 29 April 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6800

Brian Spurway trained as an apprentice airframe fitter at RAF Halton and worked on Hunter, Dakota and Hastings aircraft and as an air engineer in Hastings and Hercules transport aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Group Captain Thomas Eeles, 29 June 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3305

Recorded interview with Tom Eeles, who served as a pilot in Canberras in Germany, in Buccaneers of the RAF and Royal Navy and as an instructor at Brawdy and Honington.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Martin Mayer, 17 August 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3309

Martin Mayer describes his experience as a pilot in Whirlwind, Puma, Wessex and Chinook helicopters, as an instructor and as a test pilot in various aircraft types at Boscombe Down.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Brian Bernard Burdett, 1 October 2015, 4 April 2016

Film & Sound, X008-3315

Brian Burdett served as a pilot in Hawker Hunters and in Hastings, Comet and VC10 transport aircraft. He gives detail on fighter operations in the Hunter and on transport operations.

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Recorded account of Royal Flying Corps and RAF service by Wing Commander William John Elvin, 1970s-1980s

Film & Sound, X008-3314

William Elvin joined the Royal Flying Corps as an aircraft rigger in 1917, and continued to serve in engineering and training roles through the interwar and Second World War periods.

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Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Jonathan Kenneth Lister Williams, 2 November 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3319

Jonathan Williams served in the Supply Branch during the 1980s and 1990s. During this time he served in Germany, and with the Tactical Supply Wing in Northern Ireland and Bosnia.

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Recorded interview with Sergeant Vincent Hawkett, 8 October 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3316

Vincent Hawkett served as a radio mechanic in India during the Second World War, working with Vengeance, Hudson and Dakota aircraft. He comments on various aspects of Allied air operations.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Caroline Rebecca Paige, 9 November 2015 and 8 January 2016

Film & Sound, X008-3321

Recorded interview with Caroline Paige, who was a navigator in Phantom, Wessex and Merlin aircraft. During this time she became the first serving member of the RAF to transition gender.

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Recorded interview with Air Commodore Malcolm White, 2016-2017

Film & Sound, X008-3334

Malcolm White flew Harriers during the 1970s and 1980s in Germany and the UK. He flew on exchange with the US Marine Corps and commanded 4 Squadron and RAF Laarbruch.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant James Grant Meiklejohn, 28 April 1996

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3344

James Meiklejohn trained as a pilot in Spitfires, Mustangs and gliders during the Second World War. He explains how, due to the end of the war, he didn’t fly operationally.

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