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Recorded interview with Captain Eric Melrose Brown, 3 December 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6791

Recorded interview with Eric Brown, who served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and as a test pilot, working on deck landing and the testing of captured aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Senior Aircraftsman Alan Geoffrey Vincent, 14 April 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/010

Alan Vincent completed RAF national service as an operations clerk. He describes his work at RAF Honington, including involvement with aircraft movements and in the context of the Cold War.

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Royal Aircraft Factory certificate of identity, No. 352, issued to John George Hall, 29 June 1916

Archives, In Storage, A23

During the First World War there was a movement to shame men of military service age who were not fighting, known as the 'white feather movement'. This pass could be produced to show that the bearer had performed military service and was entitled to wear civilian clothing.

Royal Aircraft Factory certificate of identity, No. 352, issued to John George Hall, 29 June 1916 | A23

Pilot's flying log book of Air Vice Marshal Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, 1937-1943

Archives, In Storage, AC94/2/4

Henry Hogan was a member of the Long Range Development Units, that in December 1938 broke the world non-stop distance record by flying from Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia. The aircraft that Hogan was piloting did not make Darwin, it landed in West Timor being short of fuel.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant David Cox, 7 August 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9953

David Cox served as an air wireless fitter and then as an engineering officer at several RAF stations and on various aircraft in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Deep Blue Sky

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5625

Film on the development of RAF jet aircraft in the 1940s and 1950s, featuring various scenes of Hunter and Javelin fighter aircraft and Canberra, Valiant, Victor and Vulcan bomber aircraft.

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De Havilland 16mm reduction, can 100A - De Havilland diary, 1946-1949

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/184

Film on the work of the de Havilland Aircraft Company during the late 1940s, including D.H.108 experimental aircraft, Vampire fighter aircraft, aircraft carrier deck landings and the prototype Comet airliner.

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SBAC 1952

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3307

Film in which a number of airliners, helicopters, prototype aircraft and experimental aircraft are seen during low-level displays over Farnborough airfield during the 1952 Society of British Aircraft Constructors display.

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Aircraft recognition training - Javelin

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/37/4

Aircraft recognition training film on the Gloster Javelin fighter aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s various recognition features. Film shows Javelins in the air and on the ground.

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De Havilland Venom NF.2 (WL808) flying, SBAC Farnborough, September 1952

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6488/3

The De Havilland DH.112 Venom was designed to specification F.15/49. It resembled the Vampire, the aircraft it replaced, but was a new design powered by the De Havilland Ghost 103 engine.

A camouflaged jet in flight, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection