Also includes photographs of JA at [?] the Preston division of the British Aircraft Corporation, Warton [Lancashire].

Visit led by General Abdulla Al-Mutlaq to sites including RAF Leconfield [Yorkshire] and the Preston division of the British Aircraft Corporation, Warton [Lancashire], particularly relating to Lightning jet fighters.

Also includes a few photographs from a visit to Fairey Aviation Limited.

Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Includes JA in the cockpit of a Lightning jet fighter.

Includes photographs relating to JA's flight in a Vulcan bomber.

Mainly relates to the Lightning Mark 2 jet fighter aircraft.

Photographs of the aircraft shown to the delegation.

Plans of various aircraft

Plans of various aircraft

Plans of various aircraft

The collection includes Smith's files on individual aircraft including the Airbus; plans and technical drawings and correspondence relating to the aircraft industry and aircraft design.

Including: the loss of airship R38.

Including: the loss of airship R38.

Prints of the flight of four flying-boats from Britain to Australia, including pictures of the officers, personnel and aircraft, and extracts from the log.

Mainly comprising notes on Blue Jay, a short range air-to-air missile (later known as Fire Streak), and the SR 53 and SR 177 (also known as the P 177) delta wing supersonic aircraft.
With a loose list of questions for a projected visit to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, 6 February 1953.

Mainly comprising notes on the SR 53 and the SR 177 (also known as the P 177) delta wing supersonic aircraft.
With loose notes, a press cutting, and an invitation to the Conference on High Speed Aeronautics at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 20-22 January 1955.

Mainly comprising notes on the SR 177 (also known as the P 177) delta wing supersonic aircraft and the Black Knight rocket, designed to test a re-entry head for the Blue Streak missile.
Including detailed journal entries about the cancellation of the SR 177 project, 30 December 1957-10 February 1958.
The final part of the volume contains notes on nuclear engineering lectures, undated.
With a loose memorandum from Saunders-Roe about the SR 177, 27 December 1956.

Comprising miscellaneous notes, including some notes on the SR 53 delta wing supersonic aircraft and the Black Knight rocket.

Mainly comprising notes on aerodynamics research.

Containing research notes on hydrodynamic and aerodynamic drag and some draft letters.
The latter half of the volume is blank.

Dossier on short-haul jets (126-136-144-146) "from the mists of time to the present day".

The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.

Includes magazine cuttings and descriptions of aircraft.

The papers are almost entirely concerned with his service career, particularly his time as Director of Bomber Operations at the Air Ministry, 1943-45. After the War, Bufton planned a book on the Combined Bomber Offensive, and a draft is preserved at BUFT 5/4. There is also a good deal of reference and research material.