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Aerial combat: Camera gun films: Reel four

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC75/7/4

RAF gun camera film taken from Spitfire and Hurricane fighter aircraft during the Battle of Britain. Several German fighter and bomber aircraft are seen during aerial combat. Titles provide detail.

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Aircraft recognition training - Javelin

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC74/37/4

Aircraft recognition training film on the Gloster Javelin fighter aircraft, using animated graphics to illustrate the aircraft’s various recognition features. Film shows Javelins in the air and on the ground.

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Flugzeugerkennungsdienft Unterrichtsfilm: Eindecker Einmotorig

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/12/1

German aircraft recognition training film in which Messerschmitt 109, Junkers 87, Blackburn Skua, Hawker Hurricane and Junkers 34 aircraft are seen on the ground, passing overhead and in air-to-air footage.

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111 Squadron, Wattisham

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/57/4

Ground-to-air and air-to-air sequences showing RAF Hawker Hunter F6 fighter aircraft of 111 Squadron, known as the ‘Black Arrows’, performing formation aerobatic routines over RAF Wattisham, the squadron’s home base.

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R.A.F. Pageant June 1934

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/2

Footage of the 1934 RAF Display, held at RAF Hendon, includes displays of parachuting from Vickers Virginia bomber aircraft, formation aerobatics and flypasts and the destruction of a large balloon.

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Tempest fuel check, Harvard fuel check, un-attended Tiger Moth

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/22

Three RAF flight safety films in which accidents result from failure to follow correct procedures. The examples shown feature Harvard and Tiger Moth training aircraft and a Tempest fighter aircraft.

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Interception control

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/288

Film in which Soviet Tu-95 ‘Bear’ aircraft are tracked by RAF radar operators and plotters and English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft scramble to intercept. Lightnings are seen escorting the Bear.

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Royal Air Force Display, Hendon, 13 July 1929

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/12

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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Recorded interview with Warrant Officer Arthur Taylor, 9 May 2013

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6744

Arthur Taylor served as an RAF ground wireless operator and fitter during and after the Second World War. He fought in France in 1940 and was safely evacuated from Dunkirk.

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Recorded interview with Corporal Vince Williams, 26 March 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4832

Vince Williams was an airframe fitter on Javelin, Jet Provost, Vulcan, Hercules, VC10 and Belvedere aircraft in the UK, Borneo and Singapore. He also flew as a crewman in Belvederes.

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