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Lockheed Hudson Mk IV A16-199

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1942-1973, London, Hangar Three/Four, 81/A/1057

The Lockheed Hudson was a military version of the American Lockheed 14 Super Electra airliner and was ordered for the Royal Air Force in June 1938. Hudsons entered service with Coastal Command in 1939, and used extensively over UK waters on anti-submarine and general reconnaissance duties. They also served overseas.

Lockheed Hudson IIIA on display at Hendon, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Handley Page Halifax Mk II Series 1

Aircraft & Exhibits, 27 MAR 1942-27 APR 1942, London, Hangar Five, 73/A/1113

This Halifax served with No. 102 Squadron. On 27 April 1942, it flew its first operational mission – an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz that was moored in a Norwegian fjord. Damaged by anti-aircraft artillery, the aircraft made a forced landing on a frozen lake. One of the crew suffered a broken ankle and was taken prisoner. The other five, with the help of the Norwegian resistance, escaped to neutral Sweden. W1048 sank to the bottom of the fjord where it remained for the next 31 years.

Handley Page Halifax B.Mk.II on display at RAF Museum London, (C) RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

Belt Feed Mechanism, Hispano, 20mm, Mk 1*, Right Hand, 7G/518

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1942-1945, In Storage, X008-9062

By guiding an ammunition belt round a cam, a Belt Feed Mechanism extracts a round from its link and presents the round ready to be fed into the cannon’s breach.

Belt Feed Mechanism, Hispano, 20mm, Mk 1*, Right Hand, 7G/518 | X008-9062, Royal Air Force Museum

Belt Feed Mechanism, Hispano, 20mm, Mk 1*, Left Hand, 7G/517

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1942-1945, In Storage, X008-9065

By guiding an ammunition belt round a cam, a Belt Feed Mechanism extracts a round from its link and presents the round ready to be fed into the cannon’s breach.

Belt Feed Mechanism, Hispano, 20mm, Mk 1*, Left Hand, 7G/517 | X008-9065, Royal Air Force Museum

Junkers Ju 88R-1

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1942-1945, Cosford, Hangar Three, 78/A/953

The Junkers Ju 88 was one of the most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. It was adapted as a dive-bomber, night-fighter, intruder, anti-tank aircraft, torpedo bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.

Twin-engined aircraft with propellers with light green underside and green camouflage top, © RAF Museum

Operations Room Projector

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1943-1945, London, Hangar Five, 1998/0189/I

The defence of German airspace was controlled from operations rooms or ‘battle opera houses’. Here, projectors were used to present an overview of the situation on a large map so that an overall defensive strategy could be directed.

Metal projecting tube with slot for slide towards rear. Length of electrical cable. Shaped wooden handle at rear, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

RP-3 3in 25lb Rocket

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1943-1945, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0679/O

Tubular rocket motor with four rectangular fins ( new) at the rear end fitted with 25lb head at other end.

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RP-3 3in 25lb Rocket

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1943-1945, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1994/0678/O

Tubular rocket motor with four rectangular fins ( new) at the rear end fitted with 60lb explosive at other end.

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Walter 109-739

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1943-1945, Cosford, Hangar Three, X002-6669

Rocket motor as fitted to the German Enzian surface-to-air missile of the Second World War.

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Daimler-Benz DB 605A Engine

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1943-1945, Cosford, Hangar Two, 77/E/350

Large twelve cylinder inverted Vee liquid-cooled German World War Two aero-engine. As used on the Messerschmitt Bf 109G.

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