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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 1st Class Bill Hassey, 8 November 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7410

Interview with Bill Hassey, who served as an RAF armourer in the UK and with 26 Squadron in Germany, operating Tempest and Vampire ground attack aircraft during the late 1940s.

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Recorded interview with Aircraftsman 2nd Class Monty Zeid, 5 April 2017

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6794/017

Recorded interview with Monty Zeid, who completed RAF national service as a tailor. He describes his work and wider experience of RAF service, including his involvement in the Berlin Airlift.

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Half a Million Tons and a Goat: A Study of British Participation in the Berlin Airlift 25 June 1948 - 12 May 1949

Archives, In Storage, X008-5387

Electronic copy of a PhD thesis by Richard David Keen regarding the British participation in the Berlin Airlift, submitted in 2013

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Slide Rule

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 85/I/287

When loading aircraft it is important to ensure that the balance is maintained. This is the task of an Air Quartermaster and the job of loading the freight into a Hastings aircraft was made easier by the use of a slide rule specific to the aircraft type.

Wooden ruler with written annotations, © RAF Museum

Avro Lancastrian (G-AKDR) of Flight Refuelling Ltd being loaded with fuel during the Berlin Airlift, 1949

Photographs, In Storage, P100027

The Avro Lancastrian was a long-range transport version of the Avro Lancaster bomber. The first were converted in Canada for Trans-Canada Airlines. G-AKDR was originally one of those converted in Canada.

Avro Lancastrian (G-AKDR) of Flight Refuelling Ltd being loaded with fuel during the Berlin Airlift, 1949 | P100027, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection