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Gloster Javelin FAW.8 (XH966) in flight, SBAC Show, Farnborough, September 1958

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6772/12

The Gloster GA.5 Javelin was an all-weather fighter designed to specification F.4/48. It was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire engines and funded by the US Mutual Defence Aid Plan.

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

English Electric Canberra B.(I) 8 (XK951) flying, SBAC Show, September 1956

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6675/2

The English Electric Canberra was designed by W.E.W. ‘Teddy’ Petter to specification B.3/45. The prototype Canberra made its first flight on 13 May 1949.

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

English Electric Canberra T.11 (WJ610) in flight, SBAC Show, Farnborough, September 1958

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6768/3

The English Electric Canberra was designed by W.E.W. ‘Teddy’ Petter to specification B.3/45. The prototype Canberra made its first flight on 13 May 1949.

A silver jet with a black nose in flight, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

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

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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Pilot's flying log book of Maj Robert Edward Aylmer Werge Hughes-Chamberlain, 17 March 1915-26 September 1917

Archives, In Storage, X001-2302/001

Born in South Africa Hughes-Chamberlain gained his Royal Aero Club license at Brookland in February 1915.

Small manuscript log book, Crown

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

Bristol Type 188

Aircraft & Exhibits, APR 1963-JAN 1964, In Storage, 83/A/1112

Twin engine stainless steel supersonic research monoplane.

Bristol Type 188 | 83/A/1112, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

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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Bristol Aircraft material including Olympus test bed Canberra, Britannia demonstrator and Bloodhound missile

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/113

Film featuring a Saro Princess flying boat and a Canberra bomber aircraft in flight. Various views show passengers and crew onboard a Bristol Britannia airliner and a Britannia production line.

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