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Handley Page Hampden TB Mk I

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1939-04 SEP 1942, In Storage, 1994/1340/A

An RAF crew were flying this Hampden, a torpedo bomber variant, to the Soviet Union to help protect Arctic convoys, when it was shot down by German fighters on 5 September 1942.

Handley Page Hampden, RAF Museum / (c) RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan

Hawker Tempest TT.5

Aircraft & Exhibits, JAN 1945-1972, In Storage, 72/A/571

The Tempest was one of the last piston-engined front line fighters demonstrating the maximum performance that could be achieved with a piston engine and propeller combination.

Hawker Tempest on display at the RAF Museum, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum