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Red Snow, Nuclear Warhead

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1962-Circa 1969, London, Hangar One, 73/O/210

This green cylinder contained the Red Snow thermo-nuclear warhead fitted to the Blue Steel standoff missile and provided the weapon with its yield of roughly one megaton.

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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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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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SARBE 3 Rescue Beacon

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1970-Circa 1980, London, Hangar One, X002-8246

This Search And Rescue Beacon was fitted to an aircrew lifejacket.

Two yellow metal rectangular cases, with black connecting wires, © RAF Museum

RAF 50th Anniversary Air Show Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, 14 JUN 1968, London, Hangar One, 1991/0539/C

The RAF does like to mark an anniversary. One of the main events to mark the 50th anniversary of the RAF in 1968 was the Jubilee Air Show at RAF Abingdon. It included many of the airframes now in the collection of the RAF Museum's collection.

White circular badge with light blue cross and black lettering, © RAF Museum

Skynet 2B

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1973-1974, London, Hangar One, 79/R/141

Skynet 2B, represented here by this qualification model, was an important advance in military communications satellite technology for the UK when it was introduced in the 1970s.

Silver and gold cylindrical spacecraft two meters long and two meters wide with small conical projection at one end, © RAF Museum

Beer Mat from RAF Gan

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1975-1976, London, Hangar One, X002-3492

One of the remotest of these was RAF Gan, an airfield clinging to an atoll of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

White circular cardboard disc with light blue motif featuring a palm tree, © RAF Museum

Westland Sea King HAR3

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1977-2015, London, Hangar One, X008-4712

Originally designed for anti-submarine warfare, the Westland Sea King was adapted for RAF search and rescue duties as the Sea King HAR3.

Bright yellow metal helicopter with five rotors, © RAF Museum

British Aerospace Skyflash

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1978-2006, London, Hangar One, 1997/0109/O

The Skyflash was a was a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile.

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Rolls Royce Pegasus 11 (Mk 103)

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1980-1991, London, Hangar One, 1996/0216/E

This powerful turbofan engine built by Rolls-Royce was fitted to the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) British Aerospace Harrier, using vectored thrust to enable the aircraft to both fly conventionally and to hover.

Cylindrical engine with wide circular fan at the front and two circular openings on each side, Jigsaw Design & Publishing © RAF Museum