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Recorded interview with Group Captain Lewis Cunningham, 23 April 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9921

Lewis Cunningham served as a pilot in Harrier and Typhoon aircraft, including operations in Afghanistan. He later had responsibility for the Red Arrows and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

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Recorded interview with Jacqueline Towl, 7 January 2025

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9926

Jackie Towl remembers the loss of her husband in an air accident, support available at the time and later through the RAF Widows Association and her work for the Association.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Carol Honeybun-Kelly, 8 January 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9900

Carol Honeybun-Kelly was an RAF air traffic control officer, working with Tornado aircraft at the Tri-national Tornado Training Establishment at RAF Cottesmore and later at RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Marham.

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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

Rolls-Royce Derwent 8

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1950-1997, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1998/0054/E

Turbojet as fitted to several marks of the Gloster Meteor. Fully restored complete with jet pipe and displayed on stand.

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Observer's or air gunners flying log book of WO Reginald Michael Hoey Keary, March 1942-January 1945

Archives, In Storage, X005-0957/002

Reginald Keary began pilot training in Rhodesia, but was switched to train as a navigator.

Observer's or air gunners flying log book of WO Reginald Michael Hoey Keary, March 1942-January 1945 | X005-0957/002

RAF Eastcote Collection - Vulcan Scrambles at RAF Cottesmore, 1961

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC98/101

Film in which several sequences show RAF aircrew as they run to their Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft and take off. A Vulcan overhead and an airfield control van also feature.

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Delivery of first RAF Tornados to RAF Cottesmore, 1 July 1980

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/414

Film in which Tornado aircraft are delivered to the Trinational Tornado Training Establishment at RAF Cottesmore. The aircraft land, taxi and park and the crews are greeted by senior officers.

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Canberras at RAF Cottesmore

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/15

Film in which a number of Canberra aircraft, of various different versions, are seen at RAF Cottesmore in May 1974 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canberra’s first flight.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Stansfield, 18 October 2024

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-7408

Interview with John Stansfield, who was a pilot in Victor bomber aircraft during the 1960s. He remembers flying in the Far East, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War scrambles.

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