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Sea Marker Float

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1939-Circa 1957, London, Hangar Three/Four, X002-7585

Boat-shaped wooden mooring/marking buoy, painted white overall, with bell-shaped metal fitting mounted on pole above the hull, and rope on top of deck.

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Fifty Five Miles to Baghdad - RAF Habbaniya

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-4027

Film shot at RAF Habbaniya during the 1930s illustrates various aspects of life on and around the station, including a parade, road surfacing work and a range of recreational activities.

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Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 13 July 1929

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/12

Footage of the 1929 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes aerobatics, formation flying, ‘crazy flying’, parachuting, mock aerial combat, attacks on ground targets and the destruction of a balloon.

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RAF Pageant, 1931

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/36/1

Various RAF aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground at the 1931 Royal Air Force Display at RAF Hendon. Demonstrations include parachuting, bombing, formation flypasts and aerobatics.

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Pilot Officer Potier - a dangerous landing

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1863

Recording in which Pilot Officer Potier describes a difficult landing on rough seas following a convoy escort sortie in a Catalina flying boat.

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Air Commodore W.H. Primrose - The RAF in Iceland

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1852

Recording in which Air Commodore Primrose gives a brief account of RAF operations from Iceland during the Second World War, including bases, interservice and international cooperation and the weather.

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Supermarine Southampton Mk. I (N9899), No. 480 (CR) Flight, starboard front view on beaching trolley, badly damaged after being wrecked in gale, Calshot, circa November 1928

Photographs, In Storage, P008877

Supermarine Southampton Mk I (N9899) of No. 480 (CR) Flight was badly damaged during a gale at RAF Calshot on 23 November 1928

Supermarine Southampton Mk. I (N9899), No. 480 (CR) Flight,  starboard front view on beaching trolley, badly damaged after being wrecked in gale, Calshot, circa November 1928 | P008877, Crown Copyright, RAF Museum

Interviews with crew of Sunderland

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6444

Recording in which the Australian crew of a Short Sunderland give an account of an engagement with a Focke-Wulf 200.

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Pilot Officers Milson & Careless - eleven and a half hours in a dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-1896

Recording in which the pilot and rear gunner of a bomber describe a raid on Berlin and their subsequent ditching in the North Sea.

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Pilot Officer Briggs - Catalina pilot reporting on the sighting of the Bismarck

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6370

Recording in which Pilot Officer Briggs explains how he and the crew of his Catalina located the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic.

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