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Motorcycle, 3.5 h.p.

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918, London, Hangar Two, 1995/0085/V

497cc Single cylinder side valve motorcycle; chain driven with friction damper leading link front forks.

vintage motorcycle, green paint, Royal Air Force Museum

112lb, Royal Laboratory, Mk. 7

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918-1965, London, Hangar Three/Four, 65/O/890

The steel-cased 112lb Royal Laboratory high explosive bomb entered RAF service mid-way through the First World War.

Cream coloured bomb with side cutaway to show interior, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

COW Gun Mounting

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918-1965, London, Hangar Three/Four, 65/O/1109

This ground based, weapons mounting, enabled the Coventry Ordnance Works, (COW) Quick Firing, 1½ Pounder gun to engage both air and surface targets.

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COW Gun, 1½ lb, Mk III

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918-1965, London, Hangar Three/Four, 65/O/1108

The Coventry Ordnance Works, (COW) Quick Firing, 1½ Pounder, gun was an automatic cannon which was tested in various airframes form the First World War, to the 1930s. It was finally adopted as the armament for the Blackburn Perth flying boat which saw squadron service between 1934 and 1936.

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Certificate of discharge from the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve issued to OS Thomas Madoc Jones, for the purpose of entry into the RAF, 8 May 1918

Archives, 1918, In Storage, A38

Thomas Madoc Jones joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Division in 1917 and transferred to the RAF where he began pilot training.

Certificate of discharge from the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve issued to OS Thomas Madoc Jones, for the purpose of entry into the RAF, 8 May 1918 | A38

Translation of message dropped by German air force to RAF in Middle East relating to prisoners, 1918

Archives, JAN 1918, In Storage, A24

Leutnants Walter Hauck and Ludwig Haugg were shot down by Second Lieutenant A. Lloyd Fleming of No.111 Squadron on 2 January 1918 over Ramleh in modern day Israel.

Translation of message dropped by German air force to RAF in Middle East relating to prisoners, 1918 | A24

Aircraft Fabric Fragment, Fokker Dr1425/17

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918, London, Hangar One, 85/A/1294

Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) was the most successful Ace of the First World War with 80 aerial victories.

Rectangular strip of black fabric, mounted on cream card with a black frame and typed inscription, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Avro 504K

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918-1966, London, Hangar Two, 74/A/26

One of the most famous aircraft of all time, the original Avro 504 appeared in 1913. 504s equipped five night-fighter squadrons.

Biplane with grey body and white wings with wooden struts, © RAF Museum

Fokker DVII

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918-1938, London, Hangar Two, 75/A/804

The Fokker DVII was one of the outstanding fighters of the First World War, designed to win back German air superiority. Herman Goering, later Head of Hitler's Luftwaffe, was an early DVII ace.

Biplane with colourful camouflage pattern on body and wings, © RAF Museum

Royal Aero Club Gold Medallion awarded to Sir Arthur Whitten Brown

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1919, In Storage, 65/C/725

This medallion was awarded to Arthur Brown to commemorate the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic by an aircraft. Brown the navigator and his pilot, John Alcock, flew from Newfoundland to Ireland in a converted Vickers Vimy bomber in a little over 16 hours in June 1919.

Royal Aero Club Gold Medallion, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

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