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Recorded interview with Group Captain Toria McPhaden, 20 November 2023

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7390

Toria McPhaden served as an administrative and secretarial officer, including roles at Lyneham and Leuchars. She was station commander of RAF Northolt at the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s repatriation.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Phil Mobbs, 31 May 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7401

Interview with Phil Mobbs, who served as pilot in C130 Hercules and A400M Atlas transport aircraft. He describes operations around the world and the contrast between the Hercules and A400M.

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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Norman Hurst, 15 March 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4830

Norman Hurst completed national service with the RAF. He remembers being a clerk in the Transport Command Operations Room, training as a plotter at RAF Bawdsey and the Berlin Airlift.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Ray Cooledge, 11 September 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7404

Interview with Ray Cooledge, who served as an RAF airframe fitter and as a pilot in Dakota transport aircraft, including operations between India and China during the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Niall Rath, 28 January 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7414

Interview with Niall Rath, who served as an electrical and instrument fitter, air electronics operator in Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft and a crewman in Sea King search and rescue helicopters.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Gordon Parry, 13 March 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7417

Gordon Parry was a pilot in Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft and VC10 transport and tanker aircraft. He worked on developing and introducing Voyager transport and tanker aircraft to RAF service.

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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftsman John William Mitchell, 13 October 2015

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/015

Recorded interview with John Mitchell, who completed RAF national service as an airframe rigger. He was posted to 216 Squadron at Fayid in Egypt, where he worked on Valetta aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Daniela Nowalski, 6 June 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7426

Daniela Nowalski was an RAF logistics officer, including service as a movements officer in the UK, Iraq and Afghanistan. She discusses her work at the RAF’s Tedder Academy of Leadership.

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Aircraft recognition training - York

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/25/37

Aircraft recognition training film on the Avro York transport aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s various recognition features. Film shows Yorks in the air and on the ground.

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Fly in of Blackburn Beverley XH124 at Hendon, 1968

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/52

Amateur colour film in which an RAF Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft (XH124) is seen briefly passing overhead before approaching low over hangars, landing and taxiing at RAF Hendon in 1968.

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