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Andrew Dennis writes about a new arrival to our London site

Today is St Andrew’s Day, and we would like to celebrate and commemorate the courageous Scottish men and women who served and are serving in the RAF.

In his latest blog Ewan Burnet, our Film and Sound Curator, examines how personal stories can bring official histories alive.

‘Meet the RAF’ is a part of our new ‘First 100 Years of the RAF’ exhibition, opening this summer at our London site.

The Sopwith series of blogs concludes with an examination of the 7F.1 Snipe and the Dragon.

Julian Hale continues his series of blogs on Sopwith aircraft focusing on the Camel and Dolphin

Curator Andy Simpson writes of a recent medal acquisition.

Clare Carr relates the story of a Falklands Conflict survivor

Captain Leefe Robinson and the Destruction of Schütte-Lanz SL11, 3 September 1916

This blog will examine four of Sopwith’s major First World War designs. With the publication of a second blog, the reader will be able to trace the continu

How Britain developed and built a force of long range flying boats during the First World War.

Between 29 April and 8 May 1945 Allied bomber aircraft averted a humanitarian catastrophe by delivering food to starving people in Holland.

Clare Carr tells the story of a very unassuming Veteran who after being awarded the DFC went on to Oscar success.

In his latest blog Julian Hale, the Museum’s Cross & Cockade Curator, looks at the evolution of a very prolific aviation company.

Ewen Cameron, Curator at the the Museum’s Reserve Collection tells of a recent rediscovery

With the arrival of Halloween it falls upon me to make the obligatory tenuous link between the festivities and the RAF.

Answers for the most common questions regarding the heraldic badges used by the Royal Air Force.

In his latest blog for the Museum, Julian Hale explores the fighter aircraft of Austro-Hungarian Empire.

How images used in the First World War in the Air exhibition were tidied up to look their best.

Bryan Legate explores one of the more intriguing enquiries recently received by the Department of Research