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Interview with Queenie Hall.
Queenie 'Robbie' Hall was born in Suffolk and describes volunteering, her recruitment and training. At first she worked in kitchens but remustered as a clerk and worked in Command Accounts at RAF High Wycombe. She later requested a transfer to RAF…
Notes on magneto and other aircraft engine systems
Design, components, distributers, hand starting, contact breakers, contactors, lubrication. More on maintenance, leads and harness, hand starting mags, sparking plugs, tools required. More notes electrical system of various engine types.…
Royal Air Force training school notebook - flight engineer
Notes on: propeller feathering, rated and weak climb data, computer check and limitations, range losses, starting and closing down procedures. Followed by printed notes for pilots and engineers on the correct methods of controlling and handling…
Notebook
Notes on engine layout, fuel consumption for Hercules engines. Goes on with advantages of sleeve valve, inlet and exhaust openings, other parts operations with diagrams, crankshafts, master rod assemblies, reduction gear, oil pump unit with notes.…
Royal Air Force notebook - engineering
Covers indicated and real airspeed calculations. Engines horsepower, electrical systems (with circuit diagrams), fuel charts for Hercules engines, aircraft electronics, supercharging and carburettors, Goes on with aircraft performance, with tables,…
Course photograph
Sixteen airmen wearing battledress sitting and standing in three rows in front of a wooden hut. On the reverse 'Penultimate course prior to getting killed April 1942, Yatesbury'.
Course photograph
Twenty-four airmen all wearing battledress with air gunner brevet. All siting and standing in three rows in front of hangar door. On the reverse signatures and 'Gunnery Leaders course 1943 RAF Louth' [Manby].
Air Gunnery Instructors course
Twenty airmen wearing tunics with air gunners brevet. Sitting and standing in three rows in a courtyard surrounded by buildings. On the reverse 'AGI course No 1 AAS Manby Lincs'. Submitted with caption 'AGI Course Manby 1943'.
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Jack Wolff’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Jack Wolff’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 13th October 1940 until 31st October 1952. He trained as a wireless operator and air gunner.
Initial training at No. 1 Air Observer and Navigation School, followed by No. 2 Signals…
Initial training at No. 1 Air Observer and Navigation School, followed by No. 2 Signals…
Edwin Jury’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Edwin Jury’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 10th October 1942 until 20th April 1943. During this time trained as an air gunner. Trained at No. 2 Air Gunnery School and 1659 Heavy Conversion Unit, before being posted for operations…
Harry Hicks’ Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Harry Hicks’ Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 15th August 1942 until 16th October 1945. Training as a pilot started at No. 9 Elementary Flying School, followed by No. 33 Elementary Flying Training School, No. 34 Service Flying Training School, No. 4…
William Thew Mayson’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One
William Mayson’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One from 20th October 1941 until 30th September 1947. During this time trained as an observer/navigator, air gunner, second pilot and air bomber. Trained at No. 9 Air Observers School, 23…
Interview with Reginald Walter Jordan. Two.
Reginald Jordan trained as a pilot in Canada before being posted to RAF Hampstead Norris. In this interview he describes his first impression of the RAF selection procedure and his first flights with his squadrons. His first operation was leaflet…
Interview with Reginald Walter Jordan. One.
Reg Jordan volunteered for the RAF on his eighteenth birthday. He initially thought he would apply as a gunner but was trained as a pilot in Canada before being posted to his operational squadron. His first operation was leaflet dropping over…
George Arthur White, a civilian woman, and dog
G A White in RAF No 1 uniform with chip hat and trainee flash, with civilian lady and dog. On reverse, handwritten note 'Joan' and note in different handwriting 'Arthur + Nee-Nee + Tasker'.
Alexander Marshall's service record (Two)
Service record of Alexander Marshall from 18 April 1944 to 9 November 1945.
Alexander Marshall's service record (One)
Service record of Alexander Marshall from 29 September 1939 to 25 February 1944.
Interview with Dixie Deans. One
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James ‘Dixie’ Deans joined the RAF in 1936 as a direct entry pilot. He trained at White Waltham and Abu Suweir. At the outbreak of war he flew Whitleys from Linton on Ouse. His aircraft was struck over Berlin and although he managed to get to the…
Interview with Mark Kosky
Mark Kosky joined the ATC as a young man because he had a great interest in flying. He joined the RAFVR at the age of seventeen upon the outbreak of war. His mother was a Londoner and his father was Polish and Mark was raised in the city in the…
John Searle’s Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book
John Searle’s Pilots Flying Log Book from 18th May 1943 until 31st July 1945. Training as a pilot commenced at Nos. 16 and 28 Elementary Flying Training Schools, followed by Flying Training School Cranwell, 28 Operational Training Unit, an unnumbered…
Maurice James Blower’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Maurice Blower’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 29th June 1942 until 12th December 1945. During this time trained as a wireless operator and air gunner. Training as an air gunner started at No. 45 Air School in South Africa, and…
Stanley Wareing’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book Two
Stanley Wareing’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 23rd January 1943 until 8th February 1953. The first entry in this log book is as a pilot with 28 Operational Training Unit. Posted to 57 Squadron for operations in February 1943. In April posted to 97…
Stanley Wareing’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book One
Stanley Wareing’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 2nd to the 13th January 1939. This log book only contains 11 days of pilot training. The certificates of qualification do show that Stanley joined 103 Squadron later as a Wellington pilot but details are…