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Amateur colour film: 1930s

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC91/2

Amateur film shows aircraft at the 1936 RAF Display at Hendon, the 1937 coronation parade and naval review, a pre-war visit to Germany and scenes at the RAF College, Cranwell.

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Hier sehen Euch feindliche Flieger! Hier düfen Fahrzeuge night halten by Fr. Dohl, poster: lithograph on paper

Fine Art, London, Hangar Two, FA10178

Translation: Here hostile Airmen see You! Vehicles are not allowed to stop here at night.

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Ferry Pilots by Ethel Gabain, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1883

Ethel Gabain produced two Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) subjects for her Official War Artist commission about ‘women doing men’s work in wartime’. In this work she represents female pilots departing from Hatfield aerodrome in a Tiger Moth.

Lithograph - representation of the underside of the starboard upper wing and cockpits of a Tiger Moth aircraft, with female ferry pilots in rear cockpit and front, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum

A Patrol of Two-seater Aircraft by Richard Carline, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01448

Purchased in 1989.

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Air Raid by Cyril Power, linocut

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00972

Power’s linocut print of a biplane ‘dog fight’ recalls his First World War service in the Royal Flying Corps, when he supervised aircraft repairs at Lympne aerodrome, Kent. He developed the print in four lino-block colour separations of red, light blue, grey and dark blue from a wartime sketch.

Cyril Power linocut print of a First World War dog fight, RAF Museum

Air Raid by Cyril Power, linocut

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00562

Power’s linocut print of a biplane ‘dog fight’ recalls his First World War service in the Royal Flying Corps, when he supervised aircraft repairs at Lympne aerodrome, Kent. He developed the print in four lino-block colour separations of red, light blue, grey and dark blue from a wartime sketch.

Cyril Power Air Raid, linocut on paper. Depiction of a First World War dogfight., © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Flycatchers

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC73/6/2

Amateur film dated to 1925 in which Fairey Flycatcher fighter aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm are seen parked on the ground and taking off from a shore air base.

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Flying manoeuvres Seaton Carew West Hartlepool 14th May 1914

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/50/1

Film in which B.E.2 aircraft of 2 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps land on a beach at Seaton Carew. A large number of people are seen gathering to see the aircraft.

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The Great London to Manchester aerial race, 1910

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/26

Film in which Claude Grahame White and Louis Paulhan are seen competing in the 1910 London to Manchester air race. The two competitors depart from Wormwood Scrubs and Hendon respectively.

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Accelerator trials - HMS Illustrious

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3229

Trials film in which dummy and real Fleet Air Arm aircraft are catapult-launched from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during catapult trials. These include Shark, Swordfish, Fulmar and Albacore aircraft.

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