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RAF Morse School at Olympia, Blackpool by Charles Cundall, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1803

Cundall produced a series of panoramic views of Admiralty and Air Ministry subjects for his Official War Artist commissions in the Second World War. In this work a large cohort of RAF wireless operators undergo initial training to decipher Morse Code.

RAF Morse School at Olympia, Blackpool by Charles Cundall, oil on canvas, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

The Bastard Word Studies by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, graphite on Fabriano paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, X008-7568

Fiona Banner's art explores the relationship between language and conflict. Her suite of drawings, The Bastard Word Studies, signifies how the failure of language fuels war.

The Bastard Word Studies by Fiona Banner, graphite on paper, 2006-7., Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press / RAF Museum

Air Sea Rescue Launch by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00993

This is one of seven paintings Andrews made about boat building, which she developed after the war from wartime sketches taken while working for the British Power Boat Company in Hythe, Southampton, which built high-speed launch craft for RAF air sea rescue missions.

Sybil Andrews painting of an Air Sea Rescue boat, ready for launch, Glenbow Museum of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. / RAF Museum

WRAF Technician Servicing a Helicopter at Shawbury by Boyd & Evans, crayon on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00495

Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans work inter-dependently as an artistic partnership, at times drawing on the same leaves of paper to realise a shared vision. Photography is central to their practice. In the studio, when away from the subject, they based their drawings on photographs, and today photography is their main medium.

WRAF Technician Servicing A helicopter at Shawbury by Leslie Evans and Fionnuala Boyd, pencil crayon on paper, Boyd & Evans / RAF Museum

Fighter Affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane by Walter Thomas Monnington, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1755

This is one of two paintings representing a Fighter Affiliation exercise in which the crew of a Halifax bomber were trained to out-manoeuvre a naturally faster and more agile Hurricane fighter. The exercise was designed to emulate the real-life situations faced by bomber crew pursued by enemy fighters, enabling them to practice positioning their turrets and gunsights, and make evasive manoeuvres, in response to attacks from challenging angles. This painting's companion picture is in the collection of Imperial War Museums (LD 3769).

Fighter affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane by Walter Thomas Monnington, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

The Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00991

A decade after his musical explorations with singer Ian Dury’s band Kilburn and the High Roads, painter Humphrey Ocean was commissioned by the RAF Museum to represent the English Electric Lightning F6 aircraft at RAF Binbrook just before its withdrawal from service.

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Hawker Harrier by Bryan Organ, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05592

Two years after the RAF Museum opened to visitors, it commissioned Bryan Organ, known for his depictions of famous people, to paint a ‘portrait’ of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier aircraft. Several years later, he also drew the Museum’s founding Director, Dr John Tanner.

Hawker Harrier by Bryan Organ, oil on canvas, Bryan Organ and the Redfern Gallery / RAF Museum

Walrus Amphibian Aircraft by Raymond McGrath, watercolour on canvas board

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1785

An amphibious biplane, the Walrus was used for RAF air-sea rescue missions to patrol British waters, the Mediterranean and the Bay of Bengal, to recover crew from downed aircraft.

Walrus amphibian aircraft. Raymond McGrath. Watercolour on paper., Crown copyright (expired) / RAF Museum

Pegu Airstrip: Afternoon Storm by Thomas Hennell, graphite and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1859

After Eric Ravilious’ death, Hennell, an esteemed watercolourist, replaced him in an Official War Artist's Admiralty assignment to Iceland. Then from May 1945 he undertook a six-month commission with the Air Ministry in India and Burma (now Myanmar), sending watercolours to London ‘via the hand of a squadron leader’.

Pegu Airstrip: Afternoon Storm by Thomas Hennell, graphite and watercolour on paper, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Veteran Mechanic by Robert Austin, charcoal and pastel on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1903

From the Air Ministry allocation of works from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, 1947. Original accession number: LD607. On loan from the RAF Air Historical Branch (MOD).

Robert Austin pastel drawing of a veteran mechanic, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum