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The Winged Life (book cover design) by John Minton, watercolour, gouache and ink on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00565

Minton designed this cover for a biography of the pioneering French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared in 1944 aboard a reconnaissance flight from Corsica.

John Minton book cover illustration for 'The Winged Life', depicting Antoine de Saint-Exupu00e9ry adjacent to an aircraft in flight, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

Kamikaze Planes Crashing on the Deck of HMS Formidable in Japanese Waters, 1945, by Leonard Rosoman, watercolour and wax crayon on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05610

Prior to his appointment as an Official War Artist, Rosoman had worked for the National Fire Service in London during the Blitz. As a ‘fireman artist’ he developed an artistic language that captured the immediacy and drama of events, with bright contrasting colours and expressive painterly markings.

Leonard Rosoman watercolour and crayon drawing of a Kamikaze crash on the desk of HMS Formidable in 1945, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

Westland Wessex HC.4 XV732

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1969-1998, London, Hangar Three/Four, X002-9905

From nearly 30 years, two specially modified Westland Wessex helicopters transported members of the Royal Family and other dignitaries on public duties across the UK and Europe. Designated HCC4, they were identical to the Wessex HC Mk.2 in military use, except for the special VIP interior furnishings, an external folding step below cabin door, and additional navigation aides including a Decca rolling map.

Westland Wessex HCC4 on display at RAFM London, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Study of Camouflage School Workshop, Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment by Anne Newland, ink on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01387

During the Second World War mural painter Anne Newland worked for the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment in the Midlands. Its aim was to conceal major British buildings from enemy sight, preventing their destruction from air raids.

Anne Newland ink drawing of artists and designers working in the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment, Leamington Spa, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

Producing Model Buildings in the Camouflage Workshop, Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment by Anne Newland, ink on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01384

During the Second World War mural painter Anne Newland worked for the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment in the Midlands. Its aim was to conceal major British buildings from enemy sight, preventing their destruction from air raids.

Anne Newland ink drawing of artists and designers making building models in the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment, Leamington Spa, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

Augsburg Raid, April 17 1942 by Paul Nash, watercolour and gouache on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00985

Famed for his First World War works, in 1940 Nash was invited again to become an Official War Artist for the revived scheme chaired by Sir Kenneth Clark. When Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory Committee assigned him to the Air Ministry Nash made propagandist watercolours of RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft.

Augsburg Raid, April 17 1942. Paul Nash. Watercolour on paper, 1942, The artist's estate

Jeune Francais, vous pouvez accomplir votre service militaire legal comme pilote d'avions by Alfred Ballot-Beaupré, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA10242

Translation: ‘As a young Frenchman, you can complete your statutory military service as an aircraft pilot’'. This is a recruitment poster for the Armée de l’Air, the air force of the French Army.

Alfred Ballot-Beaupre French recruitment poster for the Armu00e9e de lu2019Air, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Evoluzioni Spiraliche di Aerei [Spiralling Evolutions of Aeroplanes] by Enrico Castello ('Chin'), oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00561

In 1918 Italian Futurist painter Enrico Castello, otherwise known as ‘Chin’, represented this combative vision after serving as a fighter pilot. That year, at the end of the war, poet Filippo Marinetti revived the Futurist art movement he had founded in Milan in 1909.

Enrico Castello ('Chin') oil painting of an Italian aircraft over a coastal landscape, RAF Museum

Speed, Moment of Force by Paul Sayers, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA02073

This is one of twelve paintings Sayers made to commemorate the Battle of Britain, which he first exhibited at London’s Barbican Centre before touring them to the RAF Museum in 1990.

Paul Sayers painting of an abstract impression of a fighter pilot's flight during the Battle of Britain, © Paul Sayers / RAF Museum

Taube Pursued by Commander Samson by C.R.W. Nevinson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00842

In 1915, after volunteering as an ambulance driver in Dunkirk, Nevinson painted this imagined vision of Air Commodore Samson’s command. Samson’s Royal Naval Air Squadron had aggressively patrolled the French city against German reconnaissance.

CRW Nevinson abstract oil painting of a Taube aircraft being pursued, Copyright expired. / RAF Museum

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