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Skynet satellite military communications

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/46

Film illustrating the preparation of a Skynet 2 communications satellite and its launch from the Kennedy Space Centre. The film shows satellite communications in use on land and at sea.

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Canberras at RAF Cottesmore

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/15

Film in which a number of Canberra aircraft, of various different versions, are seen at RAF Cottesmore in May 1974 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canberra’s first flight.

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Medal Bar of Marshal of the RAF Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 72/D/1074

Lord Trenchard's medal group includes the Distinguished Service Order awarded during his early military career as well as decorations from his Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force service.

A row of twelve different medals with ribbons, Jigsaw Design & Publishing © RAF Museum

Shawbury Flypast: Vol. 2 No. 4 September 1949 Battle of Britain "At Home"

Library, In Storage, X004-2740

Shawbury Flypast Volume 2, Number 4. Battle of Britain "At Home". September 1949.

Front cover of Shawbury Flypast Volume. 2 No. 4 September 1949 Battle of Britain "At Home", Crown ©

Medal Bar of Pilot Officer Noel John Victor Benson

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1990/1080/D

Noel Benson’s short career as a pilot in the RAF ended when he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Me 109 over Kent in August 1940, just a day after his squadron, No. 303, was relocated to Hornchurch.

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

Medal Bar of 6 Squadron Leader Roland Wright

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X004-6254

Corporal Roland Wright saw action on the North-West Frontier of India during the 1930s. As an air gunner he was awarded a Distinguished Flying Medal in 1932 following an operation to protect British troops at the garrison at Chitral (now in Pakistan).

Medal Bar of 6 Squadron Leader Roland Wright | X004-6254, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

FAI, England-Australia Record Flight, 1938

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X005-8233

The Fédération aéronautique internationale (FAI) Henry De La Vaulx prize awarded to Flight Sergeant Thomas David Dixon a wireless operator on the Royal Air Force’s attempt to establish a new long-distance non-stop record flight in 1938

Rectangular plaque with eagle looking at aeroplane and balloon above inscription FEDERATION AERONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE PRIX, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Boeing Chinook HC Mk 1 ZA718/BN 'Bravo November', Falklands Campaign, 1982

Photographs, In Storage, P032358

ZA718, better known as Bravo November, is the RAF's most famous helicopter. One of the first Chinooks ordered by the RAF in 1978, she is a legendary survivor and veteran of every major conflict of the last 40 years. Four of her pilots have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for actions while at the controls of this aircraft.

Side view of Bravo November carrying supplies at sea, Crown Copyright, 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

Avro Lancaster Mk. I (R5868 PO-S) of No. 467 Squadron, with the Duke of Gloucester and three other officers standing below it

Photographs, In Storage, P009480

The Duke of Gloucester visiting No. 467 Squadron in 1944.

Avro Lancaster Mk. I (R5868 PO-S) of 467 Squadron, with the Duke of Gloucester and three other officers standing below it, Crown

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