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First of the few - Supermarine Swift

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3310/002

Film in which de Havilland Vampire and Supermarine Attacker fighter aircraft appear on the ground, snow is cleared from a runway and Supermarine Swift aircraft pass overhead, land and park.

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A story of fighter development

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3214

Film on the development of fighter aircraft by the Vickers-Supermarine company. Aircraft seen include Supermarine racing seaplanes, Spitfire fighter aircraft during Second World War combat operations and Attacker jet aircraft.

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Sopwith Snipe (E6655 B) of No. 1 Squadron, starboard front view in flight, inverted, Iraq, about 1926

Photographs, In Storage, P008406

Sopwith Snipe (E6655 B) of No. 1 Squadron being flown inverted by Dermot Alexander Boyle (later Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Dermot Boyle), Iraq, about 1926.

Sopwith Snipe (E6655 B) of No. 1 Squadron, starboard front view in flight, inverted, Iraq, about 1926 | P008406, RAF Museum

The Battle of Britain by Paul Nash, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01314

This print published by the National Gallery was lithographically produced at the Curwen Press after Paul Nash's major oil painting, 'The Battle of Britain' (1941, Imperial War Museums). This was one of four ambitious, large-scale war pictures Nash painted for the Ministry of Information (MOI) as an Official War Artist.

Colour lithograph after original painting representing a dramatic pattern of contrails in blue sky - white contrails and formations of RAF aircraft representing Fighter Command's defence of Britain and smokey contrails the defeat of the enemy over the English Channel, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum

Study: Fighter Affiliation by Walter Thomas Monnington, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02296

This watercolour is a compositional study for the painting 'Fighter Affiliation', commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1943 (see L001-1755; LD 3770). Monnington depicts a scene from the rear perspective of a Halifax bomber aircraft amid clouds, looking towards the gun turret and at an approaching Hurricane fighter aircraft in the distance.

Watercolour in blue tones representing a view from the rear of a Halifax bomber amid cloud formations, looking towards a Hurr, The artist's estate

Corner of an Airfield in Sussex, with two Spits coming in to Land by Denis Barnham, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01010

Inscribed: '3/6/44. Corner of an Airfield in Sussex with 2 Spits coming in to land.'

Corner of an Airfield in Sussex, with two Spits Coming in to Land: timber frame structure with thatched roof, Mustang III on ground to the left. Two aircraft in distance on the left., The artist's estate / RAF Museum

Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe (E6964) of 56 Squadron, starboard side view on ground, circa 1924

Photographs, In Storage, P019359

The Sopwith 7F1 Snipe was designed as a fighter to replace the Sopwith Camel and several other types, powered by a Bentley BR2 rotary engine.

Light-coloured biplane with checkerboard markings, RAF Museum

Interrogation of General Galland, famous fighter pilot of the German air force, and the birth, life and death of the German day fighter arm (related by Adolf Galland) 1945

Library, In Storage, 010766

The Battle of Britain from the perspective of Adolf Galland who was Gruppenkommandeur of III Jagdgeschwader 26 at the start of the battle then promoted to Geschwaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 26 in August 1940

Tan page with title printed in black and stamped with the RAF Museum stamp. List of names written in red in top corner, Royal Air Force Museum

Dover air battle - Robin Duff

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6447

Robin Duff describes the scene as Messerschmitt 109s attack barrage balloons around Dover. Messerschmitts are engaged by anti-aircraft guns and fighters, several crash and sound effects are heard.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Holton, 5 November 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5624

Interview with John Holton, who served as an RAF navigator in Meteor night fighter aircraft, as an instructor on Brigand and Balliol aircraft and as an operations officer at Khormaksar.

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