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RAF Pageant, 1931

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/36/1

Various RAF aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground at the 1931 Royal Air Force Display at RAF Hendon. Demonstrations include parachuting, bombing, formation flypasts and aerobatics.

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Blenheims: 601 Squadron

Film & Sound, FC79/114

Amateur film taken from a Blenheim, showing Blenheim aircraft of 601 Squadron on the ground, taxiing, taking off and flying in formation over coastline before approaching to land over houses.

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Creusot raid - Wing Commander Slee

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6437

Recording in which Wing Commander Slee gives an account of the raid on the Schnieder factory at le Creusot in October 1942.

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Recording of an interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton, 30 December 1977

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/32

Interview with Wing Commander R D Pexton who served as a pilot in the RAF before and during the Second World War, flying Spitfires, Gladiators, Hurricanes, Stirlings and Lancasters.

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Recorded interview with Peter Hoar, 22 May 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4848

Interview with Peter Hoar, who flew replica Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus and Vickers Vimy aircraft. He describes his experience with these aircraft, and comments on involvement with Concorde and Lightning aircraft.

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Recording of interviews with Wing Commander Patrick and Flight Lieutenant Greening, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/17

Recordings of two interviews, the first with Wing Commander Patrick, who flew as a Pathfinder with Bomber Command, the other with Flight Lieutenant Greening who also served with the Pathfinders.

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Recording in which Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie describes a bombing raid, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/70

Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie, a veteran of Bomber Command, describes the sequence of events that took place before, during and after an RAF bombing raid during the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Air Commodore Nigel Wood, 5 May 2021

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5668

Interview with Nigel Wood, who served as a Lightning pilot, as a test pilot and trained for a flight in the Space Shuttle before its cancellation following the Challenger disaster.

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War Room Monthly Summary of Bomber Command Operations: 1945

Library, In Storage, PR06051

Bound volume of 'War Room Monthly Summary of Bomber Command Operations' 1945

Printed report, Crown

The crew of NO. 9 Squadron RAF Lancaster Mk I W4964/WS-J 'Johnny Walker', 31 July 1944

Photographs, In Storage, P032502

A Lancaster crew pose beneath 'Johnny Walker', with its decorated nose showing that this aircraft had already completed over 100 missions when this photograph was taken.

Black and white photograph of 7 aircrew in front of a parked Lancaster bomber, Crown