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Spitfires on a Camouflaged Runway by Eric Ravilious, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1791

After his first assignment with the Admiralty, from February 1942 Official War Artist Eric Ravilious worked on Air Ministry subjects.

Spitfires on a Camouflaged Runway by Eric Ravilious, watercolour on paper, Crown copyright: expired RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Short Sunderland Mk. V (VB887 4X-X) of 230 Squadron on Lake Havel during the Berlin Airlift, 1948

Photographs, In Storage, P021269

This photograph shows the first Sunderland flying boat to land on Lake Havel during the Berlin Airlift, the first major confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War.

Black and white photograph of an RAF Sunderland flying boat on Lake Havel in West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift, RAF Museum / u00a9 RAF Museum

Main Gate of RAF Wahn, around 1954

Photographs, In Storage, P032247

The main gate of RAF Wahn in West Germany, one of the airfields operated by the RAF during their occupation of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Cold War.

Black and white photograph of the main gate of RAF Wahn, showing tram tracks running alongside, RAF Museum

Winged Figure by Elisabeth Frink, bronze

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA20048

From her student days of the 1950s, to the late 1960s, Frink sculpted various winged figures which resembled men and birds as hybrid creatures. These were influenced by her childhood experiences of the Second World War.

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WRAF Technician Servicing a Helicopter at Shawbury by Boyd & Evans, crayon on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00495

Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans work inter-dependently as an artistic partnership, at times drawing on the same leaves of paper to realise a shared vision. Photography is central to their practice. In the studio, when away from the subject, they based their drawings on photographs, and today photography is their main medium.

WRAF Technician Servicing A helicopter at Shawbury by Leslie Evans and Fionnuala Boyd, pencil crayon on paper, Boyd & Evans / RAF Museum

Study for the Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00917

‘The project spanned two years, beginning in January 1987 after the Museum’s then Curator of Art, the late Tony Harold, got in touch. He had liked my painting Lord Volvo and His Estate (1982, Wolverhampton Art Gallery) and thought about how I might translate my treatment of the automobile and men into depicting RAF aircraft and crew.

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The Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00991

A decade after his musical explorations with singer Ian Dury’s band Kilburn and the High Roads, painter Humphrey Ocean was commissioned by the RAF Museum to represent the English Electric Lightning F6 aircraft at RAF Binbrook just before its withdrawal from service.

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Winged Figure III by Elisabeth Frink, bronze

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA20039

From her student days of the 1950s, to the late 1960s, Frink sculpted various winged figures which resembled men and birds as hybrid creatures. These were influenced by her childhood experiences of the Second World War.

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Air Raid by Cyril Power, linocut

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00562

Power’s linocut print of a biplane ‘dog fight’ recalls his First World War service in the Royal Flying Corps, when he supervised aircraft repairs at Lympne aerodrome, Kent. He developed the print in four lino-block colour separations of red, light blue, grey and dark blue from a wartime sketch.

Cyril Power Air Raid, linocut on paper. Depiction of a First World War dogfight., © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

The Test House by Terence Cuneo, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05567

Painted in June 1944.

The Test House by Terence Cuneo - painting of a wind-tunnel at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

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