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Recorded interview with Captain Eric Melrose Brown, 3 December 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6791

Recorded interview with Eric Brown, who served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and as a test pilot, working on deck landing and the testing of captured aircraft.

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Recorded recollections of Flight Lieutenant Arthur Edgar Taylor, 1980s

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6746

Recorded recollections of Arthur Taylor, who served as a boy entrant, aeroengine fitter, Fitter I and engineering officer from 1923 to 1946, including service in the Middle East and India.

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Recording of an interview with Group Captain Leonard Snaith, 14 October 1975

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/42

Interview with Group Captain Leonard Somerville Snaith, who served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force as a draughtsman, aero-engine fitter and pilot from 1917.

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Power Jets W2/500

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1943-1945, London, Hangar One, 71/E/1313

The Power Jets W2 series of experimental gas turbines, like this W2B dating from 1942, led to the development of Britain's first production jet engine – the Rolls-Royce Welland.

Compact cylindrical engine mounted on a metal stand, © RAF Museum