Hidden in our Stafford store are RAF & film history gems: DB200 Zündapp & Triumph TRW bikes from The Great Escape, plus Flt Lt Anthony Hayter’s uniform.

Help us move them to our new public Collections Hub—by sponsoring a box: youtu.be/OiXDrPgqcCc?...

#TheGreatEscape #CrateEscape #Conservation

Shropshire’s RAF story stretches back to the First World War ✈️ Our latest #CrateEscape film 🎬 highlights a remarkable pane of glass from RAF Tern Hill.

With less than 1% of our collection on display, we’re moving 50,000 artefacts to our new Midlands Collections Hub 📦

Please help: bit.ly/3OMDAnR

Walter Escapes the Crate: Bob Builds Bunker 2.0 When Walter escapes the crate with the help of a lovesick warehouse robot, the newsroom spirals into chaos. Now Bob’s holed up in a storage closet bunker as the primates lose control, the bananas hit ...

Walter escaped the crate.
The robot fell in love.
The banana didn’t make it.
Bob’s building a bunker in the breakroom.
Dispatch #8 is here, and it’s 57% successful, 100% unhinged.

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#TheWinkReport #Dispatch8 #CrateEscape #WalterWinkwink

👠 Julie Gibson’s mess dress shoes—worn by the RAF’s first female pilot in 1991. One of 50,000+ items heading to our new hub.
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#CrateEscape

📆 We showed you shiny gold shoes—did you guess right? 👠 They belonged to Julie Gibson, the RAF’s first female pilot in 1991.
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#CrateEscape

💥 Tom Hopkins reveals the SUU gun pod, fitted to RAF Phantoms after Vietnam showed missiles weren’t enough. A powerful fix for close-range air combat. 🔫✈️ #CrateEscape

The Crate Escape - A Beaufighter’s Last Mission. 🎥 In this video, Dr Harry Raffal, Head of Collections and Research, shares a powerful object from our stored collection: a tally board from 600 Squadron, salvaged from an Italian SM.84 tri-motor aircraft during the Second World War 🛩️. More than a record of aerial victories, this object tells a deeper story: the bravery and sacrifice of Pilot Officer Simpson and Sergeant Giles, who intercepted an enemy formation over Tunisia on 21 February 1943 🕯️. Though successful in their mission, their Beaufighter was lost in the explosion that followed. This is just one of thousands of historic RAF objects 📦 our team is transferring from our MOD Stafford collection to their new home at our Midlands site 🏢, which opens to the public in summer 2027 📅. This complex operation involves careful coordination, object inspections, and conservation work 🧰 to ensure everything is safely prepared for the move. Our logistics team protects and packs each object with care, readying them for transit 🚛. You can be part of this remarkable move ✨ Sponsor a box today and help preserve these powerful RAF stories 📜 for future generations 👶📚 👉 To do so, please visit: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape

📆Earlier this week, we showed you a piece of painted metal marked with tally lines and asked you, 'What is it?', scroll down this feed a bit. Did you get it right?

Watch the video to find out and then please consider sponsoring a box for the #CrateEscape

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#MovingHistory #RAF

🤔 WHAT IS THIS?

Battered & borrowed, this metal piece holds tales of courage & loss. In 1943, two brave airmen died stopping it from completing its deadly mission, before it was repurposed. 💔

💬 Know what it is? Drop your guess!

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#EveryBoxTellsAStory #CrateEscape

The Crate Escape - Ewen's Favourite Area. 🎥 In this video, Curator Ewen Cameron reveals one of the amazing objects in our collection that he regards as being one of his favourites, a Type 6 Indicator Unit; a radar scope fitted to Hudson aircraft in 1940. These are just a few of the thousands of historic RAF objects 📦🛩️🧳 our team are transferring from our MOD Stafford collection into a new home at our Midlands site 🏗️🏢, which will open to the public in summer 2027 ☀️📅🎉. This complex logistical operation demands precision, coordination, and care 🎯🤝🔧. From meticulous object inspections to conservation treatments 🧽🛠️🔬, each item is prepared for its journey with expert attention 👨‍🔧🧑‍🔬. Our ground and logistics crews 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️🚚 ensure every object is protected, boxed 📦🧰—or wrapped if oversized—and ready for transit 🚛🚜. You can be part of this remarkable move 💫: sponsor a box today and help preserve these powerful RAF stories 📜✈️🎖️ for generations to come 👶📚🕰️. 👉 To do so, please visit: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape 💙🙌

📆Earlier this week, we showed you an image of a grey box-like object and asked you, 'What is it?', scroll down this feed a bit. Did you get it right?

Watch the video to find out and then please consider sponsoring a box for the #CrateEscape

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#MovingHistory #RAF #MovingStories

🤔 WHAT IS THIS MYSTERY OBJECT?

It’s heavy. It’s boxy. It helped win wars. 👀

It's also one of 50,000+ items moving to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands!

Hint: It helped aircrews see the unseen… 🌊📡

Guess below! ⬇️

Sponsor a box: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape

#CrateEscape

Remember that curious little object we teased earlier this week? 👀 It’s one of MI9’s brilliant escape tools! 🕵️‍♂️💡

Watch Assistant Curator Caitlin reveal its secrets 🎥✈️

Then help us move more RAF wonders into their new home: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape 💙📦

#HistoryInMotion #CrateEscape

🤔 Tiny, round, and deceptively clever— it's one of 50,000+ treasures heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands as part of the #CrateEscape

But what is it?

Hint: It might’ve helped point the way to freedom…
💬 Guess below!

📦 Please help us by sponsoring a box at bit.ly/3ZyboI5

A note kneepad used by test pilot Jeffrey Quill when he flew a prototype spitfire in 1936.

🦿 Spitfire style secrets unlocked!

This snazzy knee pad helped test pilot Jeffrey Quill juggle notes and time in 1936. Now it’s flying into our new Collections Hub with 50,000+ treasures.

📦 Sponsor a box, join the adventure: org.pulse.ly/uzabvcwkyh

#EveryBoxTellsAStory #CrateEscape

What is this object? Please tell us by commenting below.

Call to action, asking the reader to sponsor a box as part of the Crate Escape Project.

Rough, worn & packed with purpose—it's 1 of 50,000+ objects heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands.

But can you tell us what it is?

🤔 Hint: It was strapped to pilots on test flights
💬 Drop your guesses!
📦 Sponsor a box & support the move: bit.ly/3ZyboI5

#CrateEscape #RAFHistory

🚚✈️ The Crate Escape – Our Journey Begins! We're moving thousands of historic RAF objects from MOD Stafford to our new Midlands home, opening in 2027.

Help preserve these stories by sponsoring a box today 📦👉

www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape #CrateEscape

#RAFMuseum #CrateEscape

Image shows a Winged Camel Statuette of No.45 Squadron

Call to action to sponsor a box as part of the Crate Escape.

✈️ Mystery solved!

Meet the Winged Camel 🐪 – mascot of No. 45 Squadron RAF, once stationed in Iraq 🇮🇶 and cast in silver for formal dinners.
Now heading to our new Collections Hub 📦

🔗 Sponsor a box now & help support RAF history: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape

#CrateEscape #RAFmuseum

✈️ Can you crack the case? 🔍

This curious mystery object is one of 50,000+ RAF treasures heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands. But what is it?

🧐 Hint: Its squadron mascot was a flying camel...

Got a guess? Drop it below 👇 We’ll reveal all soon.

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#CrateEscape

The Crate Escape 🚚 The Crate Escape is underway! The RAF Museum is moving over 50,000 incredible objects—each with its own story—to a brand-new Collections Hub at our Midlands site. For the first time ever, this vast national collection will be open to the public. But we need your help to get it there by summer 2027—one box at a time. Sponsor a box and be part of this remarkable mission to preserve and share over 100 years of RAF history. ✈️ 📦 Every box tells a story. Every donation makes a difference.📦 https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape

🎬 The Crate Escape: Watch the Mission Unfold! 📦✈️

We’re on a once-in-a-generation mission to move over 50,000 historic RAF objects to a brand-new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands—and we need your help!

👉 Watch now and get involved: bit.ly/4kPGIub

#CrateEscape #SponsorABox #SupportHistory

Another team just off to pick up their 'Crate Escapee', they should be back with their RAF artefact in a few minutes ....

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Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

#TheBigLiftOff #CrateEscape

The Big Lift Off is TODAY at RAF Museum Midlands! We’re relocating 50,000+ objects to a new Collections Hub—and some are making a daring Crate Escape! 🪂

From skydivers to flypasts & vintage vehicles, see how our history is moving in style! 🛩️📦

Drop by Hangar 1 today.

#CrateEscape #BigLiftOff #HLF