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de Havilland Spectre

Aircraft & Exhibits, Circa 1960, Cosford, Hangar Three, 70/E/472

The Spectre was a rocket engine designed to equip combined rocket-jet interceptor aircraft, such as the SR.53 and the proposed SR.177. It ran on a combination of kerosene and hydrogen peroxide.

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Trials of D.H.53 hooking onto His Majesty's airship R.33

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC77/45

Film in which a DH.53 aircraft releases from and reattaches to the airship R.33 while in flight. The process is repeated several times and is seen from two different perspectives.

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RAF Pageant, 1931

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/36/1

Various RAF aircraft are seen in the air and on the ground at the 1931 Royal Air Force Display at RAF Hendon. Demonstrations include parachuting, bombing, formation flypasts and aerobatics.

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Four figure flight

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/105/1

Film on the air speed record set by test pilot Peter Twiss, flying the Fairey Delta FD2 experimental high-speed aircraft. The flight is illustrated and Twiss comments on the achievement.

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Recorded interview with Captain Eric Melrose Brown, 3 December 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6791

Recorded interview with Eric Brown, who served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and as a test pilot, working on deck landing and the testing of captured aircraft.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Hall, 24 September 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5619

Interview with John Hall, who flew Spitfire and Meteor aircraft in Egypt and Sudan during the early 1950s and worked as a civilian test pilot for the English Electric company.

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Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant John Oliver Lancaster, 30 July 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6786

Recorded interview with John Oliver "Jo" Lancaster, who served as a pilot in Wellington and Lancaster aircraft and was the first to use a Martin-Baker ejection seat in an emergency.

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Aircraft recognition training - Vulcan

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/567

Aircraft recognition training film on the Avro Vulcan bomber aircraft, in which Vulcans are seen in the air and on the ground and the aircraft’s key recognition features are highlighted.

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First flights W.6, October 1939

Film & Sound, FC97/164

Film in which a Weir W.6 experimental prototype twin-rotor helicopter is seen on the ground and in several different sequences as it hovers and manoeuvres very low over the airfield.

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British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Programme

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, X005-5992

The British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP) was an advanced technology demonstrator. Originally a tri-national undertaking, British Aerospace, with help from Italian and German suppliers, completed the project independently after the German and Italian Governments withdrew.

Cranked delta wing jet aircraft, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum