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Recorded interview with Group Captain Christopher Finn, 20 July 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3379

Recorded interview with Chris Finn, who served as a navigator in Buccaneer aircraft with the Royal Navy and RAF, as a navigation instructor and as RAF Director of Defence Studies.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander David Roger Herriot, 19 September 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3391

David Herriot served as a navigator in Buccaneer and Tornado GR.1 aircraft in the UK and Germany during the Cold War. He describes his experience of operations in both aircraft.

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Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan B.2 XL318

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1961-1981, London, Hangar Five, 82/A/393

The Vulcan was the second of the Royal Air Force’s ‘V bombers’ and like the Valiant and Victor provided part of Great Britain’s nuclear deterrent force for 15 years until the Royal Navy’s Polaris submarines took over the the deterrence role in 1969.

Port side view of Avro Vulcan on a white background., © RAF Museum

Hawker-Siddeley Blue Steel

Aircraft & Exhibits, JUN 1962-DEC 1969, London, Hangar One, 71/O/378

Started privately by AV Roe in 1954, a contract was eventually placed by the Ministry of Supply in 1956 for a stand-off missile to carry a Thermonuclear device with a 1 mega ton yield.

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Handley Page Hastings T.5

Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1948-AUG 1977, Cosford, Hangar Four, 85/A/9

The Handley Page Hastings replaced the Avro York as the Royal Air Force’s standard long-range transport from 1948. Two squadrons of the new aircraft served alongside the Avro York throughout the Berlin Airlift, flying vital supplies into the city during the Soviet blockade.

Handley Page Hastings T.5 on display at Cosford, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Magnetic mine being loaded into the bomb bay of a Handley Page Hampden Mk I

Photographs, P021820

Minelaying operations, typically referred to as Gardening sorties, represented a considerable part of the RAF's activities throughout the Second World War. The first RAF airborne minelaying operation was completed by a Handley Page Hampden.

Cylindrical mine, on wheeled trolley, being loaded into open bomb bay under an aircraft., Crown

Ground Servicing, Blue Steel Missile, Mk. 1

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1962-1969, London, Hangar One, 71/O/379

Yellow painted servicing trolley for Blue Steel nuclear missile.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander John Paige, 24 June 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5606

Interview with John Paige, who served as an air traffic controller during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, including various RAF bases in the UK and tours in Bosnia and Afghanistan.

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