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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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Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (VX642) on ground, with war load

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6363/7

Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (VX642) on ground, with a display of bombs, mines, rockets and drop tanks

Single engined monoplane viewed from front starboard with rockets under wing and display of mines and bombs in front, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Recording of an interview with Ronald Fuller, 27 May 1975

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC76/1

Interview with Ronald Charles Fuller, who flew in Fairey Battles in France in 1940 and later in flying boats. He was a ground engineer with 463, 467 and 617 Squadrons.

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Recording of interviews with Mr Leslie Kemp and Mr R.B. Brigham, 13 November 1978

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/24

Interviews with Leslie Kemp, who served in the Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm, and R.B. Brigham, who was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps.

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McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG1, Cockpit Section

Aircraft & Exhibits, JUN 1969-JAN 1994, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1994/1474/A

One of the most successful and widely-used warplanes of all time, originally designed to meet a US Navy requirement for a supersonic two-seat carrier-borne air defence fighter, the Phantom first flew in May 1958 and entered US Navy service in July 1961. This Cockpit section is from Phantom FG1 XV591 – one of 48 production Phantom FG1 aircraft initially purchased for British service, 20 for the RAF and the remainder, including XV591, for the Royal Navy.

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Sikorsky Whirlwind and Westland Whirlwind aircraft of No. 705 Squadron (FAA), Ford, August 1957

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6730/12

Sikorsky Whirlwind HAS.22 and Westland Whirlwind HAS.3s of No. 705 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm), at HMS Peregrine (FAA Ford), August 1957.

Sikorsky Whirlwind and Westland Whirlwind aircraft of No. 705 Squadron (FAA), Ford, August 1957 | PC98/173/6730/12, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Blackburn Buccaneer S.1, Cockpit Section

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1963-1995, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1995/1002/A

Designed as a low-level maritime strike aircraft, the Blackburn Buccaneer was first used by the Royal Navy.

Blackburn Buccaneer S1 nose-section on display in the National Cold War Exhibition Cosford., © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Spitfire Mark I Windscreen

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1940, In Storage, 80/A/1142

This armoured windscreen from a Spitfire Mk I was damaged by machine gun fire on 9 September 1940 during the Battle of Britain. The pilot was Sub Lieutenant Arthur Blake RN from No. 19 Squadron based at Fowlmere.

Shattered glass in an arch-shaped thick metal frame, © RAF Museum