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Recorded interview with Frank Roe, 24 July 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6753

Recorded interview with Frank Roe, who worked as an engineer for the English Electric company and British Aircraft Corporation on the development of Canberra, Lightning, TSR2, Jaguar and Tornado aircraft.

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Vickers Armstrong research and development collection - Wild Goose project, can WG.3, circa 1948

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC99/143

Film illustrating various aspects of wind tunnel testing for a model Vickers Wild Goose experimental aircraft. The simulation of a glidepath and the model’s control systems are seen and explained.

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The Deep Blue Sky

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5625

Film on the development of RAF jet aircraft in the 1940s and 1950s, featuring various scenes of Hunter and Javelin fighter aircraft and Canberra, Valiant, Victor and Vulcan bomber aircraft.

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Vickers Armstrong research and development collection - Wild Goose project, can WG.10a, 1951

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC99/150/1

Film in which Vickers Wild Goose remotely-piloted experimental aircraft are seen during flight trials. Several launches are made with the assistance of a self-propelled launch vehicle, followed by safe landings.

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De Havilland 16mm reduction, can 100A - De Havilland diary, 1946-1949

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/184

Film on the work of the de Havilland Aircraft Company during the late 1940s, including D.H.108 experimental aircraft, Vampire fighter aircraft, aircraft carrier deck landings and the prototype Comet airliner.

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Fairey Long Range Monoplane

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/14

Amateur film shows various RAF aircraft in the air and on the ground, including a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane, Schneider Trophy seaplanes, Avro 504N, DH9A, Vickers Vimy and Handley Page Hyderabad.

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Royal Air Force Display Hendon, 25 June 1932

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/66/8

Footage of the 1932 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes formation aerobatics, a display by Gugnunc, autogyro and Pterodactyl experimental aircraft and the destruction of a large observation balloon.

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Heinkel 178 taxiing, takeoff and landing footage, 1939

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/428

Film showing the Heinkel 178 jet aircraft, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly, on the ground and in the air at Marienehe, near Rostock. It was flown by Erich Warsitz.

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