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Lightning scramble

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC79/151/1

Film in which RAF Lightning fighter pilots of 111 Squadron are seen while on quick reaction alert at RAF Wattisham. A pilot runs to his aircraft, taxis and takes off.

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RAF Eastcote collection - Operation Mayflight and Operation Matador, 1961

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC98/89

Film in which Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor bomber aircraft and Gloster Javelin and English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft are seen parked on the ground, taxiing and on take-off.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Andy Green, 16 April 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7398

Interview with Andy Green, who served as an RAF pilot in Phantom and Tornado F3 aircraft and broke the sound barrier on the ground in 1997, driving the purpose-built Thrust-SSC.

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Recorded interview with William Ian Harvey, 24 April 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6742/010

Recorded interview with Ian Harvey, who flew as a flight engineer in Hercules and Nimrod aircraft during the 1970s, during and after the Falklands War and the 1991 Gulf War.

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Recorded interview with Air Commodore John Mitchell and Air Vice Marshal Leslie Phipps, 25 February 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6790/017

John Mitchell and Les Phipps discuss their experience of the early development of the Lightning in RAF service. This includes various aspects of the Lightning’s capabilities, including weapons and interception.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Alan Swan, 17 May 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4846

Interview with Alan Swan, who served as an RAF armourer and bomb disposal specialist, including service during the 1982 Falklands War. He describes his bomb disposal work during the conflict.

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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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Recorded interview with Air Vice Marshal George Philip Black, 20 January 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6790/015

George Black flew Meteor, Hunter and Lightning aircraft. He flew Royal Navy Sea Hawks in the Suez Crisis, was a Lightning instructor, commanded 111 and 5 Squadrons and RAF Wildenrath.

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