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'Figaro' Door

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1940, Cosford, Hangar Two, 71/A/221

Flight Lieutenant Ian Gleed flew his Hurricane Mk I throughout the Battle of Britain. He had the wily cartoon cat Figaro, from the Disney film Pinocchio, swatting a swastika, painted on his cockpit door.

Parallelogram-shaped green panel with a hand-painted black and white cat standing on hind legs turned to face a swastika, © RAF Museum

Pilot's flying log book of Gp Capt William Arthur Darville (Bill) Brook, 28 February 1939-17 August 1953

Archives, 28 FEB 1939-17 AUG 1953, In Storage, X008-7740/005

Pilot's flying log book of Gp Capt William Arthur Darville (Bill) Brook, 28 February 1939-17 August 1953

Pilot's flying log book of Gp Capt William Arthur Darville (Bill) Brook, 28 February 1939-17 August 1953 | X008-7740/005

Attack on Bethune - Pilot Officer S. Newborough

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6375

Recording in which a Pilot Officer Newborough, Blenheim crewman, describes a daylight raid on Bethune, escorted by Spitfires and Hurricanes.

Image pending

Fighter Affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane by Walter Thomas Monnington, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1755

This painting represents a Fighter Affiliation exercise in which the crew of a Halifax bomber were trained to out-manoeuvre a naturally faster and more agile Hurricane fighter. The exercise was designed to emulate the real-life situations faced by bomber crew pursued by enemy fighters.

Fighter affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane. Walter T. Monnington. Oil on canvas, © RAF Museum

Aircraft moving by road, Middle East, 1941-1942

Photographs, In Storage, P032228

General view of convoy of lorries with dismantled Hawker Hurricanes on them.

General view of convoy of lorries with dismantled Hawker Hurricanes on them., RAF Museum

Flight Lieutenant Campbell - Fighter pilot saved by a rubber dinghy

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6381

Flight Lieutenant Campbell explains how he baled out over the English Channel and spent some time in his dinghy before being picked up by an RAF air sea rescue launch.

Image pending

Polish Fighter Pilot - Flight Lieutenant Laprowski

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6359

Recording in which Flight Lieutenant Laprowski describes a low level sortie flown by Hurricanes against a German airfield in northern France.

Image pending

Pilot's flying log book of Air Vice Marshal Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, 1937-1943

Archives, In Storage, AC94/2/4

Henry Hogan was a member of the Long Range Development Units, that in December 1938 broke the world non-stop distance record by flying from Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia. The aircraft that Hogan was piloting did not make Darwin, it landed in West Timor being short of fuel.

Pilot's flying log book, Crown

Three Aircraft by C.R.W. Nevinson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00982

This painting represents three Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft flying in formation in a cloudy sky over the British landscape during the Battle of Britain.

CRW Nevinson oil painting of Hurricane aircraft flying in formation over a landscape view, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum