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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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1928 RAF Pageant

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/3

Footage of the 1928 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes flypasts, aerobatics, a low-flying Avro 504, the destruction of a balloon and an attack on structures on the airfield.

Image pending

Night Vigil by Anthony Gross, watercolour and ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00814

This scene represents a member of the Observer Corps keeping watch from a sandbag look-out post, while barrage balloons are positioned to divert enemy aircraft away from air raid targets.

Night Vigil by Anthony Gross, watercolour and ink on paper, © The Estate of Anthony Gross. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Hendon Air Display, 1928

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/35

Various RAF aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground at the 1928 Royal Air Force Display at RAF Hendon. Demonstrations include aerobatics and attacks on ground targets.

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Royal Air Force Balloon Command, November 1938-June 1945

Archives, In Storage, B3054

Ring binder of typescript sheets, photographs and memoirs regarding the history and operations of Balloon Command during the Second World War complied by Flight Lieutenant William Forks.

Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder., Typescript sheets bound in blue A4 ring-binder.

Royal Air Force Display Hendon, 25 June 1932

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/66/8

Footage of the 1932 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes formation aerobatics, a display by Gugnunc, autogyro and Pterodactyl experimental aircraft and the destruction of a large observation balloon.

Image pending

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.

Image pending

Diagram of instructions for operating type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon, circa 1941

Archives, In Storage, A864

Diagram card providing written and visual instructions on how to set up and operate a type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon.

Instruction card featuring diagrams indicating how to set up a type "B" Free Balloon Barrage Balloon, © Crown

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VIII) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01169

This compositional study is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums).

Dame Laura Knight watercolour and graphite study for 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' painting, of WAAFs operating a barrage balloon, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum / u00a9 The Estate of Dame Laura Knight. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images