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RAF Hendon sequences, 1957

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/58/11

RAF officers and several aircraft are seen at RAF Hendon as flying operations ended, including a de Havilland Devon, a Sopwith Camel, an Avro Anson and a de Havilland Chipmunk.

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1928 RAF Pageant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/3

Footage of the 1928 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes flypasts, aerobatics, a low-flying Avro 504, the destruction of a balloon and an attack on structures on the airfield.

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R.A.F. Pageant June 1934

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/2

Footage of the 1934 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes displays of parachuting from Vickers Virginia bomber aircraft, formation aerobatics and flypasts and the destruction of a large balloon.

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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

Fly in of Blackburn Beverley XH124 at Hendon, 1968

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/52

Amateur colour film in which an RAF Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft (XH124) is seen briefly passing overhead before approaching low over hangars, landing and taxiing at RAF Hendon in 1968.

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Recorded account of the first commercial charter flight from London to Paris, made by Captain Henry Shaw, January 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/67

Recording in which Captain Henry “Jerry” Shaw tells the story of the first commercial charter flight from London to Paris, for which he was the pilot.

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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander M.M. Kaye, 30 May 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/23

Interview with Wing Commander M.M. Kaye, who trained as a pilot at Hendon and flew F.E.2bs with 18 Squadron Royal Flying Corps before being shot down and taken prisoner.

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Recording of an interview with Maud Flint, 12 August 1974

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/14

Recording of an interview by Squadron Leader Jackson Dymond with Mrs Maud Flint, who worked at the Grahame-White factory, Hendon as a seamstress from 1914 to 1916.

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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander A.J. Edmunds, part one, 22 October 1981

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/9

Interview with Wing Commander A.J. Edmunds, who worked as an air taxi pilot and ground engineer during the 1930s. During the Second World War he was an RAF ground engineer.

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Recording of an interview with Squadron Leader Allen, circa 1965

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/1

Hubert Allen flew at Hendon before the First World War. During the war he served in the Royal Naval Air Service, and in the RAF during the Second World War.

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