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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Peter Michael Goodwin, 17 September 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6788

Peter Goodwin was a pilot in Venom and Javelin aircraft in the UK, Malta, Aden and Germany. As a civilian, he was a hostage in Iraq in 1990 and 1991.

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Recorded interview with Group Captain Christopher Finn, 20 July 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-3379

Recorded interview with Chris Finn, who served as a navigator in Buccaneer aircraft with the Royal Navy and RAF, as a navigation instructor and as RAF Director of Defence Studies.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Michael Snelling, 19 September 2018

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4800

Interview with Mike Snelling, who served as an RAF pilot in Hunter aircraft and as a civilian test pilot working on the development of the Sea Harrier and Hawk aircraft.

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A History of Fighter Development

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC75/19/1

Film on the development of fighter aircraft by the Vickers Supermarine company, including the design influence of Schneider Trophy racing seaplanes. Spitfire, Seafire, Spiteful and Attacker fighter aircraft are featured

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Flycatchers

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC73/6/2

Amateur film dated to 1925 in which Fairey Flycatcher fighter aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm are seen parked on the ground and taking off from a shore air base.

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Recorded interview with Captain Eric Melrose Brown, 3 December 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6791

Recorded interview with Eric Brown, who served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and as a test pilot, working on deck landing and the testing of captured aircraft.

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Yours Till the Boys Come Home (from 'Bunk' portfolio) by Eduardo Paolozzi, screenprint

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05412

While in the late-1940s austerity measures persisted in Britain, American commodities and advertising, by contrast, reflected the USA’s economic and cultural dominance. They also reflected America’s popular imagination inspired by the emerging jet and space age.

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Recording of an interview with Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Porter, part one, 17 November 1980

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/33

Interview with Sir Kenneth Porter, who trained at Halton and Cranwell and served in 2 Squadron before injury ended flying career. He was then a signals officer.

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Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (VX642) on ground, with war load

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6363/7

Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (VX642) on ground, with a display of bombs, mines, rockets and drop tanks

Single engined monoplane viewed from front starboard with rockets under wing and display of mines and bombs in front, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Ivor Llewellyn Jules Robinson, 3 August 2006

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6758

Squadron Leader Ivor Robinson trained as an apprentice at Halton and served at sea in Royal Navy aircraft carriers. He later served in the Far East and with the V-force.

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