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Aircraft recognition training - Vulcan

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/567

Aircraft recognition training film on the Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft, in which Vulcans are seen in the air and on the ground and the aircraft’s key recognition features are highlighted.

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Personal diary of Second Lieutenant William Montague Butler, 1918

Archives, In Storage, X001-2393

Butler joined No. 8 Squadron from England in February 1918 and flew in operations covering the March retreat following the German Offensive.

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Bomber evasion tactics, Spitfire versus Stirling

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/34

Film in which animated diagrams and film taken from the perspectives of a fighter pilot and bomber’s gunner show how a bomber aircraft can manoeuvre to avoid a fighter attack.

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What's the form?

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/4

Film in which the crash of an Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft is thought to have resulted from unauthorised low flying, until a more thorough examination of the evidence proves otherwise.

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Aircraft recognition - Wellington Mk. IC

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/233

Aircraft recognition training film on the Vickers Wellington bomber aircraft, using animated images to highlight recognition features. The aircraft’s geodetic construction, armament and Second World War service are also mentioned.

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Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 13 July 1929

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/12

Footage of the 1929 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes aerobatics, formation flying, ‘crazy flying’, parachuting, mock aerial combat, attacks on ground targets and the destruction of a balloon.

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601 Squadron summer camp, Lympne, 1928 {cg}

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/366

Film taken at Lympne airfield during 601 Squadron’s summer camp of 1928 shows civilians and squadron personnel with their DH9A aircraft. DH9As appear in the air and on the ground.

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Bomber Command operational films

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/153

Three films taken from RAF Lancaster bomber aircraft during daylight bombing raids on Flushing in the Netherlands, against the German battleship Tirpitz in Tromsø Fjord, Norway, and Düren in Germany.

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Vulcans and Lancaster at RAF Waddington c.1969

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/200

Film in which Lancaster and Vulcan bomber aircraft appear at RAF Waddington. A Vulcan is prepared for flight and the Vulcan’s crew prepare before boarding the aircraft and taking off.

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Aircraft recognition - Hampden I

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/150

Aircraft recognition training film in which the key recognition features of the Handley Page Hampden are illustrated and described using an animated image of the aeroplane. Key points are reiterated.

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