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Maple Flag 13 Badge

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X004-8521

Maple Flag is a Canadian run air combat exercise hosted at Cold Lake Air Force Base in Alberta.

Circular blue cloth badge with central red maple leaf, © RAF Museum

RAF Police Service Dress Cap of Other Ranks

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X003-9398

The white cloth cover on this Service Dress cap identifies the wearer as a member of the RAF Police.

White fabric cap with black peak and decorative cloth band and strap, with badge, © RAF Museum

Operation GRAPPLE Commemorative Beer Mat

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1990, In Storage, X008-4700

Operation GRAPPLE was the codename given to the trials of Britain's first hydrogen bomb. The RAF's No. 49 Squadron was responsible for the air dropping of the weapon. The first trial took place on 15 May 1957, over Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Blue circular cardboard disc with a nuclear cloud in red, © RAF Museum

RAF Identity Disc Set

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1941-1947, In Storage, X003-4312

These fibreboard discs are stamped with basic identity details. If the bearer was killed the green disc remained with the body while the red disc was taken to record the death.

Two discs, one red and circular, one black and hexagonal, threaded on string, © RAF Museum

Siskin Aircraft Fabric

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1930, London, Hangar One, 79/Y/936

Squadron emblems frequently refer back to a period in their history. The Cross of Lorraine adopted by No. 41 Squadron was taken from the arms of the French town of St Omer where the squadron was based during the First World War.

Rectangular fabric with complex red cross topped with golden crown, © RAF Museum / 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

Gosport Tubes

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 66/R/828

The Gosport System of flying instruction, developed by Robert Smith-Barry during the First World War, revolutionised flying training and became the basic model used throughout the world.

Tubes and hearing pieces resembling a stethoscope, RAF Museum

Fiat CR 42 Falco

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1940-1943, London, Hangar Three/Four, 78/A/952

Designed by Celestino Rosatelli, the Italian Fiat CR 42 was the last single-seat biplane fighter to be manufactured by any Second World War combatant. CR 42s took part in the invasion of Southern France and later fought against the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

Biplane with propeller and camouflage pattern, © RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Wing Commander Innes Bentall Westmacott

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1991/0372/D

During the Battle of Britain Innes Westmacott served with No. 56 Squadron, flying Hawker Hurricanes. In August 1940 he was badly burned after his fuel tank exploded during an attack by a Messerschmitt Bf 110.

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

Supermarine Spitfire Mark I

Aircraft & Exhibits, APR 1939-NOV 1971, Cosford, Hangar Two, 72/A/263

More than any other aircraft, the Spitfire has become a much-loved symbol of winning against the odds. Designed by RJ Mitchell, its speed, agility and firepower made it one of the RAF's leading fighter aircraft of the Second World War.

Single engine aircraft with propeller and camouflage pattern, © RAF Museum

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