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Dining Knife

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 71/Z/258

On joining the RAF you would be issued with a number of essential items. This would have included set of eating irons consisting of a knife, fork and spoon.

Metal knife and silver plate spoon, © RAF Museum

Air Gunner badge, 1923 pattern

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1987/1492/U

Unofficial sample Air Gunner badge used on Blue Grey Dress and Khaki Drill Uniform

On a rectangular patch of dark blue Melton with rounded top corners, a winged bullet in pale blue embroidery., RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

RAF Trade Physical Training Instructor Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X005-4509

The badge of the Physical Training Instructor depicts three arms wielding Indian Clubs.

Circular brass badge formed of three arms holding exercise clubs with letters PTI in the centre, © RAF Museum

Princess Mary's RAF Nursing Service Tropical Helmet

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 66/U/185

In the 1920s, the majority of the RAF Squadrons were deployed overseas. 1922 saw the first overseas posting by the RAF Nursing Service when ten Sisters, suitably equipped with tropical helmets, were posted to Baghdad.

Hard, cream-coloured fabric helmet with thick, wide brim, © RAF Museum

Study for 'Take Off': Stirling Bomber Cockpit by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01208

This detailed study represents the interior of a Stirling Bomber aircraft. It is one of many preparatory works, drawn on large sheets of paper, which Dame Laura Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums).

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

Medal Bar of 6, Squadron Leader Walter Henry Park

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 79/D/2131

Walter Henry Park joined the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, earning the Military Cross in 1917. His Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for operations in North Russia in 1919 and the Bar for operations in Kurdistan in 1922.

6 metal medals suspended on a bar by coloured silk ribbons, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

United Kingdom Space Operations Centre

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Six, X008-6762

The Space Operation Centre was established in 2008 and controls the Ministry of Defence's' space related operations, such as monitoring space launches, missile early warning, monitoring satellites and their proximities and entry or re-entry of objects into the earth's atmosphere.

Globe surmounted by Union Jack stripes on background of black with yellow stars. Blue Circle surround., (C) RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Evening Bag

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X005-5050

Wives and sweethearts of serving personnel often wear an item of clothing or jewellery decorated with, or in the shape of, RAF wings to show they have someone dear to them in the service.

Pure-shaped bag with gold strap and fabric body, © RAF Museum

Caterpillar Club Badge of Sergeant Leonard Clarke

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1995/0819/U

The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by baling out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. Members are awarded a gold caterpillar pin badge (the caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made).

Copper coloured badge, caterpillar shape, with red eyes, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Browning, 0.303in, Mk. II*

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 74/O/10

The Browning machine gun was adopted by the RAF following trials in 1934. Although the gun was selected, work was needed to make it suitable for use with British ammunition.

Rectangular breech to the left of a cylindrical barrel, © RAF Museum

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