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Vickers Armstrong research and development collection - Highball trials film, can 61, circa 1943

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC99/61

Film in which de Havilland Mosquito bomber aircraft drop Highball bouncing bombs from very low level, aiming at a railway tunnel in a remote area. Several trial runs are shown.

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Vickers Armstrong research and development collection - Highball trials film, can 8, circa 1944

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC99/8/1

De Havilland Mosquito bomber aircraft drop Highball bouncing bombs during trials against the battleship HMS Malaya, moored on Loch Striven in Scotland, and at sea off the coast at Reculver.

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SBAC 1952

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3307

Film in which a number of airliners, helicopters, prototype aircraft and experimental aircraft are seen during low-level displays over Farnborough airfield during the 1952 Society of British Aircraft Constructors display.

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Apprentice Technicians - RAF Style

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-4059

Film illustrating the range of technical specialisations open through the RAF’s apprenticeships. Various RAF aircraft are shown and the opportunity to participate in a range of recreational activities is highlighted.

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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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Defensive Radio Warfare (Radar Aspects) / Anti-Jamming Procedures at Control Stations - Recognition of jamming signals

Film & Sound, In Storage, X001-3684

Film in which several different methods of radar jamming are described and illustrated for the benefit of RAF radar operators. This includes ‘Window’ and simple, amplitude-modulated, frequency-modulated and pulse-modulated methods.

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Intercept

Film & Sound, In Storage, X002-6100

Film in which a Soviet Tu-16 aircraft is tracked by the RAF as it flies over the North Sea. An F-4 Phantom fighter aircraft is scrambled and intercepts the intruder.

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Compilation of Second World War German aircraft footage, 1930s-1940s, reel 1

Film & Sound, In Storage, X002-8110/001

Film consisting of several short clips showing a number of Second World War German fighter, bomber and transport aircraft, flying boats and gliders in the air and on the ground.

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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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