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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

The Day Before Invasion by Denis Barnham, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01012

Inscription: '- The Day before Invasion - "Bugs" - P/O Keating in his tent. 130 Squadron, 142 A.F. 4/6/44.'

The Day Before Invasion by Denis Barnham, ink on paper, The artist's estate / RAF Museum

The Wright brothers flying at Kitty Hawk, 1903

Photographs, In Storage, X001-2690

On 17 December 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made a number of flights at Kill Devil Hills, south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Few people noticed the event but they were the first men to fly a powered heavier-than-air machine, eventually achieving a flight of 852 feet in 59 seconds.

A man running beside a biplane, RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Corporal Orla Proctor, 20 May 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9941/004

Orla Proctor served with the RAF Police and describes her role when deployed to Sudan for Operation Polar Bear in 2023. She also discusses her involvement in RAF women’s rugby.

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Recorded interview with Wing Commander Chrissy Siczowa, 20 May 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9941/002

Chrissy Siczowa commanded 3 Police and Security Wing and was RAF women’s rugby team captain before becoming director of women’s rugby. She explains the importance of sport in the RAF.

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Recorded interview with Sergeant Ben Payton-Hoskins, 20 May 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9941/001

Ben Payton-Hoskins served with the RAF Police at RAF Brize Norton. He remembers his work during the Covid pandemic and describes the arrival of evacuees from Afghanistan during Operation Pitting.

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Amateur footage of RAF and other aircraft at Goose Bay, Canada, 1964-1965 reel 3

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9939/003

Amateur film taken at Goose Bay in Canada shows Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft, a Bristol Britannia airliner and an S-58 helicopter, with various views of people and buildings in snow.

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Caterpillar Club Badge of Sergeant Leonard Clarke

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1995/0819/U

The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by baling out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. Members are awarded a gold caterpillar pin badge (the caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made).

Copper coloured badge, caterpillar shape, with red eyes, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Aircraft Crash Axe

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 78/T/346

Multi-crew and multi-engine aircraft were equipped with an axe to assist the crew in escaping from it in a crash. These sturdy steel axes had insulated rubber handles designed to allow the axe to be used to cut through live electrical cables.

Chrome-headed axe with black rubber handle, RAF Museum

Model of 64ft RAF High Speed Launch

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, X002-9902

The 64ft RAF High Speed Rescue Launch was an offshore rescue boat type built between 1936 and 1940 by the British Power Boat Company. This highly detailed scale model was made by a former RAF marine craft crewman.

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