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Medal Bar of Group Captain Geoffrey Brunner
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1993/0470/D
During the Battle of Britain Geoffrey Brunner served with No. 43 Squadron. On 26 August 1940 in a raid off Portsmouth he was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 109. With no radio, engine or hydraulics, covered in petrol and wounded in the ankle, he successfully made a wheels-up landing at RAF Tangmere.
Caterpillar Club Badge of Sergeant Leonard Clarke
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1995/0819/U
The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by baling out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. Members are awarded a gold caterpillar pin badge (the caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made).
Aircraft Crash Axe
Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 78/T/346
Multi-crew and multi-engine aircraft were equipped with an axe to assist the crew in escaping from it in a crash. These sturdy steel axes had insulated rubber handles designed to allow the axe to be used to cut through live electrical cables.
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