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Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01171

This compositional study representing a barrage balloon among trees, with female balloon operators below it, is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). In 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper | FA01171

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (V) by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01172

This compositional study representing a barrage balloon among trees is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums).

Watercolour representing a barrage balloon by trees with figures - of WAAF balloon operators - below it., Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper, 1942

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (I) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04558

This small compositional study of four WAAFs holding the rope of a barrage balloon is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). Months earlier, in 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

Graphite drawing of four WAAF barrage balloon operators pulling the line to tether the balloon, RAF Museum

Diagram of instructions for operating type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon, circa 1941

Archives, In Storage, A864

Diagram card providing written and visual instructions on how to set up and operate a type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon.

Instruction card featuring diagrams indicating how to set up a type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon, © Crown

Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 13 July 1929

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3276

Footage of the 1929 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes aerobatics, formation flying, ‘crazy flying’, parachuting, mock aerial combat, attacks on ground targets and the destruction of a balloon.

Image pending

Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 27 June 1931

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC90/5

Film in which Westland Wapiti aircraft of 600 Squadron are seen preparing for the 1931 RAF Display at Hendon. Crowds of people and various aircraft are seen during the display.

Image pending

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.

Image pending

1928 RAF Pageant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/3

Footage of the 1928 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes flypasts, aerobatics, a low-flying Avro 504, the destruction of a balloon and an attack on structures on the airfield.

Image pending

Hendon Air Display, 1928

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/35

Various RAF aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground at the 1928 Royal Air Force Display at RAF Hendon. Demonstrations include aerobatics and attacks on ground targets.

Image pending

Royal Air Force Balloon Command, November 1938-June 1945

Archives, In Storage, B3054

Ring binder of typescript sheets, photographs and memoirs regarding the history and operations of Balloon Command during the Second World War complied by Flight Lieutenant William Forks.

Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder., Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder.