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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Christine Dziuba, 11 February 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9929

Chris Dziuba remembers her service as an RAF nurse, marriage to an RAF officer, his loss to cancer on 15 January 2006 and her involvement with the RAF Widows Association.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Harry Apiafi, 20 November 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9918

Harry Apiafi gives an account of his RAF career, initially as an aircraft electrician before becoming a pilot in Hercules transport aircraft with 47 Squadron and on weather reconnaissance operations.

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Recorded interview with Sergeant Chris Bradshaw, 13 August 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9930

Chris Bradshaw describes his experience of RAF Sea King search and rescue helicopter operations in the UK and of the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT), using Chinook helicopters in Afghanistan.

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Bristol Pegasus I

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1934-1973, London, Hangar Three/Four, 73/E/1111

Medium supercharged, poppet valve, left hand tractor drive, nine cylinder single row, air cooled 620hp radial aero engine. Sectioned.

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Battle of Britain 21st anniversary souvenir book

Library, In Storage, X004-0388

Souvenir book for RAF Finningley’s ‘At Home’ Day on Saturday 16 September 1961 commemorating the twenty first anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The flying programme and station plan is not included

Page showing five grey aircraft against blue sky. With white and black text and white box with blue and red text, Royal Air Force Museum

Slingsby Type 31 Tandem Tutor

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1950-1996, London, Hangar Five, X003-7970

Twin (tandem) seat high-wing basic training glider of wood and fabric construction.

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De Havilland Goblin 35

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1945, Cosford, Hangar Three, 69/E/905

The Goblin engine, designed by Frank Halford, and the first jet engine to be produced by de Havilland. Goblins equipped some variants of the Gloster Meteor as well as the de Havilland Vampire.

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Air Cadet Training Handbook: Book 3 - Principles of Flight Gliding

Library, In Storage, X004-6393

The aim of this manual was to provide cadets in the RAF with information about the principles of flight and explain how an aeroplane can fly and remain stable and controllable in the air.

Front Cover of Air Cadet Training Handbook: Book 3, Crown ©

Part-time National Service in the RAF Reserve (Class H) and voluntary service in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force or the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in lieu of part-time National Service

Library, JAN 1957, In Storage, X005-7786

5th edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet 273 ‘Part-time National Service in the R.A.F. Reserve (Class H): And voluntary service in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force or the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in lieu of part-time National Service’. Issued by the Air Ministry January 1957

Cream coloured page with black text and RAF emblem of a circle surmounted by a crown and flying bird in centre, Royal Air Force Museum

Hawker Hart Trainer

Aircraft & Exhibits, NOV 1935-SEP 1943, In Storage, 71/A/1415

This aircraft was built in 1935 by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. After a brief flying career with No. 2 Flying Training School, it was placed in storage in 1938.

Yellow-coloured bi-plane aircraft with RAF roundels, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / (c) RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan