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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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Mr Grahame-White's 1st annual sports, Hendon 24 August 1918

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/71/8

Film in which injured soldiers are seen watching, and participating in, sports at Hendon aerodrome. Events include tug-of-war, a three-legged race and a cycling race. Claude Grahame White also appears.

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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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Daily Express Air Pageant, 23 July 1949

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/4

Film taken at the Daily Express international air pageant, held at Gatwick Airport, shows Spitfire, Vampire, Stampe, Sunderland, Superfortress, Dakota, Cierva Skeeter and Pitts Special aircraft displaying over the airfield.

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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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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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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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111 Squadron, Wattisham

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/57/4

Ground-to-air and air-to-air sequences showing RAF Hawker Hunter F6 fighter aircraft of 111 Squadron, known as the ‘Black Arrows’, performing formation aerobatic routines over RAF Wattisham, the squadron’s home base.

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The last Mosquitoes, May 1963

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/58/13

Film in which Mosquito TT.35s and a T.3 of No.3 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit (CAACU) are seen at Exeter and in flight at the time of their retirement from service.

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Skynet satellite military communications

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/46

Film illustrating the preparation of a Skynet 2 communications satellite and its launch from the Kennedy Space Centre. The film shows satellite communications in use on land and at sea.

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