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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.

This portrait of raconteur and bon vivant ‘Paddy’ Barthropp was donated in December 2015, from the estate of his widow, the late Margaret Elisabeth ‘Betty’ Barthropp. Painted […]

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

Between 1917 and 1918 British flying boats based in the Orkney and Shetland Islands hunted U-Boats preying on merchant shipping.

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.

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Did the opinions of Royal Flying Corps Aircrew have any influence over the development of technology and tactics used in aerial reconnaissance?

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

Volunteer George Mason looks at the forgotten life of one of the founders of the Royal Air Force

The Scilly Isles were an important base for flying boats patrolling the seas off south west Britain during the First World War

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

The Museum’s Film & Sound Curator gets nostalgic over a Chipmunk

In this blog we explore the amazing history behind one of our lucky charms on display at Cosford.

The Museum was recently contacted to see if we could substantiate whether an RAF airman had survived falling from his aircraft without a parachute by landing in […]

During 1917 and 1918 RNAS and RAF flying boats played a vital part in the defence of British coastal waters.

Assistant Curator Bryan Legate indulges his passion for military vehicles by writing about two lesser known RAF vehicles.

A hundred years ago, four squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps flew to France. This article examines the aircraft and their all-too brief service careers.