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The Fear of the ‘Zepp’ and the King Stephen Case
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When archivist for the RAF Museum, 2019 – 2024, I was naturally drawn to the documents relating to the First World War. In many aspects the early years of the Royal Flying Corps and their actions in the First World War are overshadowed by the glamourous aircraft and men and women of the Second. Certainly more visitors would visit and stare (righ...
'The Experience of the First World War in the Air: Personal Accounts of the Great War from the RAF Museum’s Archives' with Vernon Creek
Vernon Creek joins us again with more tales from the RAF Museum (last September he talked to us on the subject of 'Observation Balloons on the Western Front'). Just over a decade separated the world's first sustained, powered flight, made by Orville Wright on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War. It was during the years 1914...