Presentation on work of the Trust

1. FAST Archive
RAE Farnborough
Dr Graham Rood
Trustee / Curator
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
FAST

2. The Balloon Factory 1905/6

3. H.M.Balloon Factory 1907-08
Nulli Secundus II
July 1908 Baby

4. First UK Flight 16 October 1908
S.F.Cody

5. 1914 To War

6. 1905/6
1916
1975

7. Aim 1 : Historic Buildings Preservation
 24 ft Wind Tunnel 1935 : Grade 1
 Transonic Wind Tunnel 1942 : Grade 1
 R52 4 x 3 Wind Tunnel 1917 : Grade 2
 RAF IAM Centrifuge 1950s : Grade 2
 RFC Black Sheds c.1912 : Grade 2
 G1 building / Trenchard House : Grade 2*
 Portable Airship Shed : Grade 2
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust

8. 24 ft Wind-tunnel
Grade 1

9. Hawker Hurricane
drag research 1940

10. The WW2 High Speed and
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Grade 1

11. WW2 Hawker Typhoon in the
High Speed tunnel 1942

12. Avro Vulcan & Skybolt
Transonic Tunnel

14. R 52

16. The reconstructed 1912
Airship Shed

17. Aims 2 & 3
2: Preservation of full range
of RAE Records & Artefacts
3: Public Access to Records

18.  7200 Artefacts
 120,000 pictures & negatives from 1912 to date
 40,000 RAE Reports from 1915 onwards
 4800 Aviation research reports (ARC etc)
 1500 Aviation Books
 5000 rolls of aviation research film
 RAE Bedford collection of film and photos
 Engineering & Architectural Drawings Archive
Heritage Collection

19. RAE, ARC, NACA, ACA Reports etc
Plus two 40 ft Containers

21. Cine Film & Video

22. Glass Plate Negatives & RAE
Library Volumes

23. Part of the
Print Library

24. Flying Clothing Collection

25. FAST Museum

26. FAST Museum
Hall 2

27. Significant & Interesting Donations
Desmond King-Hele FRS: 12 volumes of RAE (GW & Space) Reports &
TMs
Some personal RAE related correspondence
His books on Erasmus Darwin and Shelley
His poems
RAE Space Dept. management diagrams

28. George Miles papers Libellula & M52
AA Griffith papers SST

29. RAE News 540 volumes
from 1947 to 1992
Search 7963 entries in XL
Total 9560 lines

30. Collaboration with RAeS Library (NAL)

31. Primary databases
Artefacts >7200
Negatives Glass Plate > 45,200
3x3 glass lecture slides c.2000
Wet negatives c.80,000
35 mm slides
Cine Film &Video >5000 reels
Print register > 1000 so far
Pyestock negatives c.48,000
Air Accident files 2635 from 1913
Aircraft Record cards 684
Reports RAE paper reports 30,000 with microreports
RAF IAM paper reports 1578
ARC Reports & papers 12,000
Engineering & Architectural Drawings from 1910 onwards
Flying Clothing
RAE News 540 volumes
Scanned negatives >26,000 to date
Oral histories

32. 115 years of Aviation History
Cody’s Tree
112 years of Hampshire Aviation History

33. G de
Havilland &
A N Wilson
RAE Neg No 4
Breguet Neg No 2
Database of Scanned Glass Plate Negatives

34. Test Pilots WW2
Me/Bf 109 at RAE
1940

35. SE4 propeller details 27 April 1914

36. Post WW2 & Cold War

37. S/L Cooper
Mr Padden
Mr Allan
Lt Cdr E M Brown
Secondary Databases
Passport & Portraits 1659
images

38. Restoration
& repair

40. Archive Documentation
History records/Sheets

42. Databases
15 primary databases
12 Secondary
Searches possible at the FAST Museum
Library
In future via the Web (with restrictions)
Through touch screen technologies

43. NVG &
NBC

44. The End – Questions?

45. Archive Requests & Customers
In 2016 FAST had 156 specific requests for information from the
Archive
Including
Family History enquiries
NASA
Science Museum London
Universities (UK, USA, Australia, Canada ………..)
Research (Technical and Social)
Filming BBC & independent producers for the History Channel, ITV
etc
Images for Books & Lectures
Windtunnel historical query from Boeing
BBC One Show
Comet Crash enquiry (many times)
etc. etc.

46. C F Caunter
Aero Report 2150A Confidential
A Historical Summary of
Research
at RAF/RAE
1878 to 1918 Royal Aircraft
Factory & Antecedents
1918 to 1948 RAE
Needs a 1949 to 1992 report
(New FAST 10 year project)

47. Progress on Digitisation
Level 1 Searchable databases
Level 2 Image & Report digitisation
Glass Plate negatives - full
process
Cine Film - by
selection/request
Prints - by request
Microreports - by request
RAE Reports - by
request
Level 3 Photogrammetry for analysis and
display

50. RAE Experimental Research Aircraft

53. Concorde
experimental
supersonic wind-
tunnel models

55. Armstrong Whitworth
Design
M-Wing for Mach 1.5
FAST Museum Farnborough

56.  Glass Plates / Photographs
 Slides 35mm & glass
 Engineering & Technical Drawings
 Cine film
 Artefacts
 Reports RAE / ARC / IAM / FPRC
 Aircraft Instruments
 Library
 RAE Bedford film & cine
Databases

57. The End – Questions?