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Lightning firing Red Top

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/51

Air-to-air film showing two English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft as they fire Red Top air-to-air missiles at radio-controlled target aircraft. The target aircraft are hit and fall from the sky.

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De Havilland 16mm reduction, can 102/2 - the Hornet Long Range Fighter

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/180

Film in which a de Havilland Hornet twin-engined fighter aircraft makes several low passes over an airfield and is seen in air-to-air film as it manoeuvres around the camera aircraft.

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Bomber evasion tactics, Spitfire versus Stirling

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/34

Film in which animated diagrams and film taken from the perspectives of a fighter pilot and bomber’s gunner show how a bomber aircraft can manoeuvre to avoid a fighter attack.

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249 Squadron Mustang Mk. IIIs

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/32

Film in which RAF ground crews are seen carrying out maintenance work on Mustang IIIs of 249 Squadron on an airfield. The Mustangs are then seen taxiing and taking off.

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Re-arming a fighter - The turn-round

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/445

Film in which Spitfire fighter aircraft land following an operational sortie. The aircraft are met by groundcrew and the process of preparing the Spitfires for their next flight is illustrated.

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RAF gun-camera films - attacks on enemy shipping and ground targets, July 1942

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/325

Gun camera footage taken from Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft during engagements with German aircraft and attacks on ground targets in Europe and ships in the English Channel and North Sea.

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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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Gun camera material - Spitfire Vs

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/152

1942 gun camera footage recording attacks on Luftwaffe aircraft by RAF Spitfire Mk Vs and a Hawker Typhoon. German aircraft seen include Messerschmitt 109, Focke Wulf 190 and Dornier 217.

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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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RAF Eastcote collection - HM Queen Mother at RAF Station Leconfield, October 1961

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/223

Film in which the Queen Mother visits RAF Leconfield, where she inspects a guard of honour, pilots of 74 Squadron, Lightning and Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft and a married quarter.

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