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Bristol F.2b (Replica)

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1918, London, Hangar Two, 72/A/992

The Bristol Fighter was designed in 1916 as a replacement for the B.E. two-seaters. No.48 Squadron received the first production aircraft and introduced them into service during the Battle of Arras in April 1917. Flown in the tight defensive formations normal to two-seaters at the time, this baptism of fire was unsuccessful but it became an excellent fighting machine when the tactics were changed to allow it to be flown in the more aggressive manner of a single-seater. By the end of the war the type had been used for offensive patrols, photographic reconnaissance, escort fighting and ground attacks.

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Sopwith 7F1 Snipe

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1926, London, Hangar Three/Four, X006-0349

This aircraft is a composite, incorporating parts from many different sources, painted in the markings of MRAF Sir Dermot Boyle who flew the type with No. 1 Squadron in Iraq.

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First of the few - Supermarine Swift

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3310/002

Film in which de Havilland Vampire and Supermarine Attacker fighter aircraft appear on the ground, snow is cleared from a runway and Supermarine Swift aircraft pass overhead, land and park.

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First of the few - Supermarine Swift

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3310/001

Supermarine Swift fighter aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground. A number of RAF personnel and civilians greet each other next to a line of parked Swifts.

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Operations Room sequence

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3375

Film showing a post-war reconstruction of a Battle of Britain fighter operations room, in which plotters and controllers follow the events of 15 September 1940. Archive footage illustrates aerial combat.

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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.

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Study: Fighter Affiliation by Walter Thomas Monnington, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02296

This watercolour is a compositional study for the painting 'Fighter Affiliation', commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1943 (see L001-1755; LD 3770). Monnington depicts a scene from the rear perspective of a Halifax bomber aircraft amid clouds, looking towards the gun turret and at an approaching Hurricane fighter aircraft in the distance.

Watercolour in blue tones representing a view from the rear of a Halifax bomber amid cloud formations, looking towards a Hurr, The artist's estate

Sopwith Snipe (E6655 B) of No. 1 Squadron, starboard front view in flight, inverted, Iraq, about 1926

Photographs, In Storage, P008406

Sopwith Snipe (E6655 B) of No. 1 Squadron being flown inverted by Dermot Alexander Boyle (later Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Dermot Boyle), Iraq, about 1926.

Sopwith Snipe (E6655 B) of No. 1 Squadron, starboard front view in flight, inverted, Iraq, about 1926 | P008406, RAF Museum

Dover air battle - Robin Duff

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6447

Robin Duff describes the scene as Messerschmitt 109s attack barrage balloons around Dover. Messerschmitts are engaged by anti-aircraft guns and fighters, several crash and sound effects are heard.

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Sergeant Kingaby - four Messerschmitts in a day

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-6428

Account by Donald Kingaby of the events of 15 November 1940. On this day, while serving with 92 Squadron, Kingaby was credited with the destruction of four Messerschmitt 109s.

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