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De Havilland Aircraft Company, can 358, construction shots of Comet prototype, 1949

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/321

Film in which the prototype de Havilland Comet airliner is seen from various angles during construction, including work on the wings, inside the fuselage and on de Havilland Ghost engines.

Image pending

Jaguar

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/90

Film on the SEPECAT Jaguar strike aircraft, including comments on the aircraft’s development as an Anglo-French project, engines, short takeoff capability, performance, role and plans for its introduction to service.

Image pending

De Havilland Venom F.B.1, WE255, side view, March 1951

Photographs, In Storage, PC73/4/779

The De Havilland DH.112 Venom was designed to specification F.15/49. It resembled the Vampire, the aircraft it replaced, but was a new design powered by the De Havilland Ghost 103 engine.

Side view of a light-coloured jet on the ground, Crown Copyright, RAF Museum

Vickers Vimy (B9952), starboard side view on ground, circa 1918

Photographs, In Storage, P004621

The Vickers FB.27 Vimy was ordered and made its maiden flight in 1917. It didn’t enter RAF service until 1919, however, remaining in service until 1933.

Twin-engined biplane on the ground, RAF Museum

TSR.2 - Air to air

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/532

Film in which a prototype TSR2 aircraft is seen in air-to-air film, on landing and on the ground during its flight test programme. An undercarriage retraction problem is also seen.

Image pending

TSR.2 - Flight tests

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/533

Film in which a prototype TSR2 aircraft is seen in air-to-air film, on landing and on the ground during its flight test programme. An undercarriage retraction sequence is also seen.

Image pending

Vickers Valiant B.2 (WJ554) in flight, Farnborough, 14 September 1953

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6530/1

The Vickers Valiant was the first of the three V-bombers to enter RAF service and was the only one to drop live nuclear weapons.

A vblack four-engined bomber in flight, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

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.

Image pending

Bristol material - rolls one to ten

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/514

Film showing aircraft of the Bristol Aircraft Company, including Bristol Brabazon and Britannia passenger aircraft and appearances by a Bristol Sycamore helicopter, Bristol 173 helicopter and a Bristol Freighter aircraft.

Image pending

English Electric Canberra T.4 prototype (WN467) in flight, SBAC Farnborough, September 1952

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6486/3

The English Electric Canberra was designed by W.E.W. ‘Teddy’ Petter to specification B.3/45. The prototype Canberra made its first flight on 13 May 1949.

A light-coloured jet bomber in flight, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection