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Midlands Air Museum–Outdoors
12/03/2013
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In the snow and wind
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| Argosy 650 – G-APRL | ||
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| Gloster Javelin F.A.W.5 XA699 | Sea Hawk – WV797 | |
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| Fairey Gannet – T-2 XA508 | ||
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| Danish F-104G Starfighter | F86A Sabre FU-242 | |
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| F-4c Phantom II 63-7699 | Sea Harrier FA2 ZE694 | |
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| Hunter F-6a XF382 | Sea Vixen F.A.W. 2 XN685 | |
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| Lightning F-6 XR771 | Saudi T-55 55-713 | |
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| F-101B Voodoo 56-0312 | F100D Super Sabre 54-2174 |
Cold war warbirds
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, Canberra, F4, Harrier, Hind, March 2013, Midlands Air MMuseum
Midlands Air Museum–Vulcan B.2 XL360
12/03/2013
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In the snow
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| XL360 from the carpark | And from inside the museum | |
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| Blue Steel under XL360 | And on it’s own |
With it’s Blue Steel
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, March 2013, Midlands Air Museum, Vulcan, XL360
Midlands Air Museum – Hanger
12/03/2013
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Here be XL360
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| A Shackleton Radar | Main entrance | |
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| It’s also the Jet Heritage Centre | With a Thunderbird Missile in front | |
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| XL360 from the carpark | And closer | |
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| Rolls Royce Spey | Canberra T-17 Electronics Warfare Variant | |
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| Gloster Meteor F-4 | Lockheed T-33 | |
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| de Havilland Vampire F-1 | Martin Baker ejection seats | |
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| SAAB J-29F | SAAB J-29F from the rear | |
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| Armstrong Siddeley – Sapphire | View from above |
And another snowy day
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, Coventry, F4, Harrier, March 2013, Midlands Air Museum, Vulcan
Newark Air Museum – In The Snow
12/03/2013
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There are some wonderful aircraft here
And some wonderful people
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, March 2013, Newark Air Museum, Snow, V Bomber, Vulcan
Newark Air Museum–The Indoor Birds
11/03/2013
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Nice and warm
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| SAAB Viggen AJSH 37 – 373 918 | Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 –
XM685 |
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| Hawker Sea Hawk FB.3 – WM913 | Fairey Gannet AEW.3 – XP226 | |
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| Westland Wessex HC.2 – XV728 | BA Sea Harrier FRS.1 / FA.2 – ZA176 | |
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| SAAB Draken – AR-107 | ||
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| Sky Flash and Sidewinder | Gloster Javelin FAW.8 – XH992 |
Protected from the snow
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, Fairey Gannet AEW.3, March 2013, Newark Air Museum, SAAB, Sea Harrier, Warbirds
Newark Air Museum–The Snow Birds
11/03/2013
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Cold and covered in snow
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| English Electric Canberra T.19 – WH904 | Avro Shackleton MR.3/3 – WR977 | |
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| Handley Page Hastings T.5 – TG517 | Dassault Mystere IV – 83 and North American F-100 Super Sabre – 54-2223 | |
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| RAF Phantom Cockpit | English Electric Lightning T.5 – XS417 | |
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| SEPECAT Jaguar | ||
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| Bloodhound Radar | Thunderbird Missle | |
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| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML “Flogger –
024003607 “07” |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27K “Flogger” –
61912507006 “71” |
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| Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 – XN964 | de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 – XJ560 | |
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| Gloster Meteor NF.14 –
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But magnificent
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, Buccaneer, Lightning, March 2013, Migs, Newark Air Museum, Shackleton, Snow, Warbirds
Newark Air Museum–Vulcan B.2 XM594
11/03/2013
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A Classic Warbird
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| The slightly snowy entrance | XM594 | |
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| And a Blue Steel | Blue Steel close up and a shadow | |
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| Blue Steel and saddle fuel tank | Iron bombs | |
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In the snow
Categories: Military, Travel
#V13, March 2013, Newark Air Museum, Snow, Vulcan
East Midlands Aeropark
11/03/2013
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With a Nimrod and a Vulcan
In cold March snow flurries
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, East Midlands Aeropark, March 2013, Nimrod, Vulcan
Dream Team Updates–Monday 11 March 2013
11/03/2013
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For the Weekend of 09/10 March 2013
| Position | Team | Manager | Points |
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| 1 | Save the Bale | Paul Jones | 1637 |
| 2 | JP United | Jennifer Price | 1556 |
| 3 | max’s millions | Carl Price | 1523 |
| 4 | Water Boys | Daniel Roberts | 1512 |
| 5 | Redbirds | Sarah Jones | 1473 |
| 6 | Saunders Valve | Dale Parker | 1448 |
| 7 | Elite 11 | Michael Roberts | 1395 |
| 8 | Dynamo Divers | adam lewis | 1348 |
| 9 | Malky’s Blue and Red | Robin Gibbs | 1340 |
| 10 | LENNOX 101207 | neil page | 1314 |
| 11 | Talwg United | Barrie Niblett | 1289 |
| 12 | Sharkys Dream Team | Mark Jones | 1279 |
| 13 | Hutchys hammers | Lee Hutchings | 1272 |
| 14 | The Glory Boys | Mark Lonney | 1264 |
| 15 | Evs11 | Richard Evans | 1260 |
| 16 | Brents boys | Brent Parry | 1247 |
| 16 | Living Liberty Loca | Joanne Jones | 1247 |
| 16 | Sassy’s Boys | Sarah Pritchard | 1247 |
| 19 | Tanauan terriers | brian mills | 1245 |
| 20 | Gabalfa Rangers | Russell Calderwood | 1239 |
| 21 | Open Source Stars | Roger Nash | 1234 |
| 22 | craigy cavaliers | Craig Holley | 1231 |
| 23 | Bluebirds in Red | Neil Lintern | 1218 |
| 24 | Olympic United | Mike Simonson | 1215 |
| 25 | Alabang athletic | brian mills | 1212 |
| 26 | He Who Dares Wins | Matthew Hoskins | 1209 |
| 27 | Marching On Together | Ian Page | 1206 |
| 28 | HQdlaty | Magdalena Walczak | 1159 |
| 29 | The Price is right | Gareth Price | 1140 |
| 30 | UPANDWIN | Chris Vardon | 1116 |
| 31 | little troopers | leslie withers | 1090 |
| 32 | whisky boys | david malatynski | 1065 |
| 33 | Matthews Marvels | Jane Williams | 1045 |
| 34 | Willmott’s Warriors | Andrew Willmott | 996 |
| 35 | Victory | Victoria Page | 943 |
| 36 | Blackwood Bluebirds | Alec Withers | 849 |
| 36 | liams team | liam page | 849 |
| 38 | FRANNYS BOYS | frances page | 830 |
Categories: Dream Team
Dream Team, March 2013
East Midlands Aeropark
10/03/2013
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Spring time
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| Even before the snow, it was freezing | Gate Guardian | |
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Avro Vulcan B.2 – XM575 |
BAe Nimrod R1 – XW664 | |
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| Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B – XV350 | Armstrong Whitworth Argosy – G-BEOZ | |
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| BAC Lightning F.53 – ZF588 | More of an XM575 | |
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| Minus engines | Tail on | |
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| Picnic ready but not today | Roundel | |
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| Forward looking back | And goodbye |
But snow
Categories: Aerospace, Military, Travel
#V13, East Midlands Aeropark, March 2013, Museum, Nimrod, Vulcan
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