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Anti Glare Mk 8 Flying Spectacles

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 84/U/383

As well as making you look stylish, sunglasses serve a useful role in aviation by lessening the sometimes substantial glare of the sun as it is reflected off the top of cloud cover.

Circular sunglasses with gold wire rims, © RAF Museum

Powdered Egg

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1993/0631/G

Two thirds of the food consumed in the UK during the Second World War had to be imported by sea. Safeguarding this maritime lifeline became a vital task for the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

Rusty metal can with label reading: This can contains 12 eggs in powder form, © RAF Museum

RAF, Type G.22 Camera Gun

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 77/I/395

Type G.22 camera gun, produced by the Williamson Manufacturing Company Limited, London.

RAF, Type G.22 Camera Gun, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Study for ‘Take Off’: Flight Engineer by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01176

This preparatory study of Flight Sergeant Alexander Quadling, a Flight Engineer, is one of many Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums), in which she represented a Stirling bomber crew at RAF Mildenhall preparing for flight.

Study for 'Take Off': Flight Engineer by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper, 1943, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Royal Aero Club membership badge, 1936

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 79/U/1656

The Royal Aero Club worked closely with the Air Ministry to promote aviation as a sport, awarding licences and organising races.

Royal Aero Club membership badge, 1936 | 79/U/1656, IAIN DUNCAN

Medal Bar of Flying Officer Michael Edmund Staples

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 80/D/1923

Michael Staples was a successful Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, serving with No. 609 Squadron at RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire.

Three medals on individual ribbons with different stripe patterns in multiple colours, © RAF Museum

RAF Loadmaster Flying Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1986/0777/U

Aircrew who are not pilots wear a badge with a single wing. This is a badge for a Loadmaster who would be responsible for the loading of transport aircraft and helicopters.

Blue cloth badge with one wing to the right, with initials LM, © RAF Museum

Parachute Rip Cord Handle

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1994/0346/S

Pulling this handle could save your life. Attached to the handle is a length of wire connected to two pins. These pins secure the cover of the parachute.

Rectangular metal handle with trailing wire, © RAF Museum

SD, Officer's, Oxford Pattern, Ptn 1970s

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X008-4508

This shoe forms a pair with X008-4509.

SD, Officer's, Oxford Pattern, Ptn 1970s | X008-4508

Girl's Venture Corps Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X005-1241

Until 1983 the Air Training Corps only accepted male cadets. From 1942 female cadets with an interest in aviation could join the Women's Junior Air Corps.

Triangular silver badge with aircraft motif and blue oval cloth badge with V motif, © RAF Museum

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