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105 boxes of papers of Barnes Wallis are held by the Science Museum at Wroughton near Swindon. The papers comprise design notes, photographs, calculations, correspondence and reports relating to Wallis's work on airships, including the R100; geodetic construction of aircraft; the bouncing bomb and deep penetration bombs; the Wild Goose and Swallow swing-wing aircraft; hypersonic aircraft designs and various outside contracts.
Two boxes of records are also held at Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. The collection catalogue can be found online. The collection comprises copies of papers written by Wallis in the course of his aeronautical research.
Other Barnes Wallis papers are also held at Brooklands Museum, the Imperial War Museum, London, Newark Air Museum and the Royal Air Force Museum, Trinity College, Cambridge and Bristol, Leeds and Oxford universities. See the National Register of Archives for further information
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