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Bomber evasion tactics, Spitfire versus Stirling

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/34

Film in which animated diagrams and film taken from the perspectives of a fighter pilot and bomber’s gunner show how a bomber aircraft can manoeuvre to avoid a fighter attack.

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Gun camera material - Spitfire Vs

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/152

1942 gun camera footage recording attacks on Luftwaffe aircraft by RAF Spitfire Mk Vs and a Hawker Typhoon. German aircraft seen include Messerschmitt 109, Focke Wulf 190 and Dornier 217.

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The crew of NO. 9 Squadron RAF Lancaster Mk I W4964/WS-J 'Johnny Walker', 31 July 1944

Photographs, In Storage, P032502

A Lancaster crew pose beneath 'Johnny Walker', with its decorated nose showing that this aircraft had already completed over 100 missions when this photograph was taken.

Black and white photograph of 7 aircrew in front of a parked Lancaster bomber, Crown

601 Squadron summer camp, Lympne, 1928 {cg}

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/366

Film taken at Lympne airfield during 601 Squadron’s summer camp of 1928 shows civilians and squadron personnel with their DH9A aircraft. DH9As appear in the air and on the ground.

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Camouflaged Bombers by Graham Sutherland, gouache on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1754

Better known for his grotesque and surreal visions of bomb damage, Graham Sutherland had also made gouache paintings of bomber aircraft early in the Second World War. Three were purchased by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC).

Graham Sutherland watercolour and gouache of camouflaged bombers, RAF Museum

Aircraft recognition training - Valiant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/25/23

Aircraft recognition training film on the RAF’s Vickers Valiant bomber aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s recognition features. Film shows Valiants in the air and on the ground.

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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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RAF Eastcote Collection - Blue Steel maintenance and handling, reel 2, circa 1965

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC98/132/2

Film in which RAF personnel work on Blue Steel missiles and their components. A Blue Steel is moved into position under a Vulcan bomber aircraft and the Vulcan takes off.

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Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02819

This is one of a number of watercolours Paul Nash produced when commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee as the Air Ministry’s Official War Artist from March to December 1940.

Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and chalk on paper, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum / u00a9 RAF Museum

Pilot Officer Patterson - Talk by Bomber pilot following attack on Brest

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6362

Recording in which Pilot Officer Patterson gives an account of a night raid on the harbour at Brest.

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