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Royal Aircraft Factory BE2b (Replica)

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 1992/0382/A

The BE2b was a very stable aircraft. On 26 April 1915, in the First World War, 2nd Lt William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse attacked Courtrai Railway Station, Cambrai, Northern France flying BE2b No. 687. Dropping a 100lb bomb he was fatally wounded by ground fire but managed to fly home, and was awarded the first Victoria Cross for an aerial action.

Biplane with white body and wings and wooden struts, © RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Squadron Leader John Plenty, 6 August 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5675/011

Interview with John Plenty, who served as a Chinook pilot, flight commander and squadron second-in-command of 27 Squadron. He remembers operations around Whaley Bridge Dam and during the Covid pandemic.

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