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Flying Trousers, Long Range Development Unit, RAF

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1938, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0328/U

These flying trousers were produced for the RAF’s Long Range Development Unit whose Vickers Wellesleys set a long-distance flight record flying direct from Egypt to Australia in November 1938.

Flying Trousers, Long Range Development Unit, RAF | 1994/0328/U, © RAF Museum

Flying Jacket Liner, Long Range Development Unit, RAF

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1938, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0329/U

This flying jacket liner was produced for the RAF’s Long Range Development Unit whose Vickers Wellesleys set a long-distance flight record flying direct from Egypt to Australia in November 1938.

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Flying Jacket, Long Range Development Unit RAF

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1938, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0327/U

This flying jacket was produced for the RAF’s Long Range Development Unit whose Vickers Wellesleys set a long-distance flight record flying direct from Egypt to Australia in November 1938.

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Parachute Release Handle

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 79/S/152

Squadron Leader Henry Hogan was the Commanding Officer of No. 501 Squadron during the Battle of Britain, 1940.

Rectangular chrome handle with trailing metal wire, © RAF Museum

FAI, England-Australia Record Flight, 1938

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X005-8233

The Fédération aéronautique internationale (FAI) Henry De La Vaulx prize awarded to Flight Sergeant Thomas David Dixon a wireless operator on the Royal Air Force’s attempt to establish a new long-distance non-stop record flight in 1938

Rectangular plaque with eagle looking at aeroplane and balloon above inscription FEDERATION AERONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE PRIX, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Photographs relating to the forced landing of Vickers Wellesley L2639 in the Australian Outback, December 1938

Archives, In Storage, AC94/2/20

L2639 was one of three aircraft of the Long Range Development Unit that participated in a world record long distance flight from Egypt to Australia in November 1938.

Photographs relating to the forced landing of Vickers Wellesley L2639 in the Australian Outback, December 1938 | AC94/2/20, Ask Curator

Heliograph

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0323/I

A heliograph can be used to send morse coded messages using a mirror to reflect flashes of sunlight. They were carried in survival kits on board RAF aircraft in the 1930s.

Heliograph | 1994/0323/I, IAIN DUNCAN / RAFM/Iain Duncan

Pilot's flying log book of Air Vice Marshal Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, 1937-1943

Archives, In Storage, AC94/2/4

Henry Hogan was a member of the Long Range Development Units, that in December 1938 broke the world non-stop distance record by flying from Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia. The aircraft that Hogan was piloting did not make Darwin, it landed in West Timor being short of fuel.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Fédération Aéronatique Internationale Medallion, England to Australia Record Flight, 1938

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1994/0364/C

Fédération Aéronatique Internationale Medallion awarded to Flight Lieutenant Henry Hogan, pilot of one of three Vickers Wellesley bombers which took part in an attempt to establish a non-stop world record flight from Egypt to Australia in 1938

Rectangular silver plaque in presentation box lined with green silk and velvet., IAIN DUNCAN