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Type F.N.1

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1937-1938, London, Hangar Three/Four, 70/O/428

Faster aircraft speeds made it hard for gunners to control their machine guns. Frazer-Nash produced a hydraulically powered turret which included a shield for the gunner. The ‘lobster back’ turret was fitted to the Hawker Demon fighter.

Type F.N.1 | 70/O/428, RAFM/Iain Duncan

Playing Cards with Concealed Map

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1942, London, Hangar One, 72/S/1438

Packs of playing cards concealing escape maps were smuggled into prison camps in Germany inside Red Cross parcels to help British and American prisoners of war to plan their escapes.

29 playing cards some with front layers peeled away on to reveal part of a map underneath, Jigsaw Design & Publishing © RAF Museum

George Cross of Pilot Officer Gerald Charles Close

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1937, London, Hangar Three/Four, 79/D/2040

Pilot Officer Gerald Charles Close was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal on 21 December 1937. This was exchanged for the George Cross in 1940.

Silver cross suspended beneath a blue ribbon, RAF Museum

4000lb Medium Capacity (MC) Bomb, Mk 1

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1942-Circa 1965, Cosford, Hangar Three, 70/O/145

The Medium Capacity series became the standard bomb used by the RAF from 1941. The 4,000lb version offered greater accuracy than similar sized bombs but could only be carried by Lancasters and specially modified Mosquitos like the one it is displayed with at the RAF Museum Midlands.

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Pilot's flying log book of Squadron Leader Harold Arthur Cooper Bird-Wilson, 28 September 1937-18 June 1943

Archives, 28 SEP 1937-18 JUN 1943, In Storage, X003-7892/001/001

Bird-Wilson joined the RAF in 1937, after completing his flying training he was posted to No.17 Squadron. In September 1938, Brid Wilson was involved in a crash and suffered severe facial injuries, undergoing pioneering plastic surgery.

Two pilots flying log books bound together in black leather. See documentation tab for digital copy, Two pilots flying log books bound together in black leather. See documentation tab for digital copy

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Armoured Windscreen

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1943, Cosford, Hangar Three, X005-6968

This windscreen was recovered from RAF Atcham, near Shrewsbury. Atcham was used by the United States Army Air Force as a Combat Crew Replacement Centre where recently arrived fighter pilots would learn to fly in European weather conditions before joining an active squadron.

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Flying Trousers, Long Range Development Unit, RAF

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1938, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0328/U

These flying trousers were produced for the RAF’s Long Range Development Unit whose Vickers Wellesleys set a long-distance flight record flying direct from Egypt to Australia in November 1938.

Flying Trousers, Long Range Development Unit, RAF | 1994/0328/U, © RAF Museum

Pilot's flying badge of Sergeant Robert Bayley

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1943 {cg}, In Storage, X008-9474

Pilot's wings badge that Sergeant Robert Bayley gave to his wife as a memento of him, on which he has written on the reverse 'With all my love to my beloved wife from your adoring husband'.

Pilot's flying badge of Sergeant Robert Bayley | X008-9474, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Cup, King's, 1938

Aircraft & Exhibits, 02 JUL 1938, In Storage, X002-7349

In 1938 Alex Henshaw, flying a Percival Mew Gull aircraft, won the prestigious King’s Cup Air Race.

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Hawker Hind (Afghan)

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1938-1956, In Storage, 69/A/104

The Hawker Hind was a single engine day bomber which entered RAF service in 1935. Hinds were also exported widely, with some, like our example, built for the Afghan Air Force

Hawker Hind (Afghan) on display at Cosford., © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

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