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Cold and Frosty War Jets – February 2015
Free, excellent and very friendly, helpful staff.
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| Powered by Waze. | The screen defrosted. | |
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| Pit stop. Fuel and food. Tesco Extra Brockworth. | Full English with Club Card points. | |
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| And arrived. | Avro Vulcan B2 – XM569. | |
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| Gloster Meteor T7 – WF784. | Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF14 – WS807. | |
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| Nose art shows two bird strikes. |
De Havilland Firestreak. |
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Javelin FAW.9 XH903. |
Gloster Meteor F8 Serial WH364. |
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| And so to inside. | With a gentleman who had flown in her. | |
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| Light refresh. Excellent Bar Manager | Little Whitcombe Premier Inn. Excellent staff. |
Boscombe Down In The Rain
Real life Sea Harrier
With four kills
Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
http://www.boscombedownaviationcollection.co.uk/
A rainy day early in 2015 and a great welcome
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| Tesco Extra Salisbury. Petrol and | A Full English (too much fried bread) Raw Tomato for health. | |
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| Due to the rain, this was the only outdoor photo. RAF Comet cockpit. | Sparrow and Christmas Tree, both drill. | |
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| WE177. British Nuclear bomb. | And from the otherside. | |
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| GAF Jindivik MK103A unmanned target aircraft | Gloster Meteor D16 – WK800. Unmanned target aircraft. | |
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| Sea Harrier FA2 XZ457. Went to the Falklands on HMS Hermes. | Real life kills. Not all the same pilot. | |
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| Carrying a Paveway II. | The original cockpit was destroyed due to a take off engine fire. The pilot ejected. | |
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| Lightning F2A – XN726 cockpit. | Wasp HAS1 XT437 (423) | |
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| Proton Spray Pack and Cannon Pack. | ASRAAM – drill round. | |
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| Sea Vixen FAW1 XJ476 cockpit. | Browning M2 50 calibre | |
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| Looking down the hangar. | Looking up the hangar. |
Excellent staff, nothing was too much trouble.
Only Later
Do you find out
What really happened
Imperial War Museum 2014
It was raining
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| 15 inch Guns and a stormy sky. | Die Mauer. | |
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| Harrier. | V1. | |
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| T34-85. | 88. | |
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| Sherman. | Little Boy. | |
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| Ikara. | Argentina v UK. | |
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| MM38 Exocet. | Blue Steel replica. |
And the museum has been refurbished
Ten Minutes This Time
Slightly later
As the toilets were being refurbished
Cosford Cold War Museum–In and Out
Poor Service Areas
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| Strensham – mostly a waste of time. | Frankley – slightly better. | |
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| Grey with a touch of drizzle. | The Gate. | |
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| The Gate Guardian. | Bristol Britannia 310. | |
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Lockheed Hercules C130K Mk3 – XV202. |
Dutch
Lockheed SP-2H Neptune. |
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Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R.Mk.1 – XV249. |
British Aircraft Corporation TSR 2 – XR220. |
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BAe Harrier GR9A – ZG477. |
FMA 1A58 Pucara – ZD485. |
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Vickers Valiant B1 – XD818. |
Handley Page Victor K2 – XH672. |
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| Avro -
Vulcan B2 – XM598. |
Skybolt and Blue Steel. | |
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| Polaris A3 – fully loaded (inert). | Polaris A3 – the full round. |
Excellent Museum
Music This Month–September 2013
Mama Kin – Aerosmith
Don’t look back – Boston
Take the long way home – Supertramp
The song remains the same – Led Zeppelin
From despair to where – Manic Street Preachers
Lay it on the line – Triumph
September 2013
The month of:-
Autumn
Broken Freight Train
Sore throat no blood
Tyres
Mountain Beer Festival
Warren
5c/5s meh
Ponty Pub Crawl
Scanning
7 and wait
7 installed x 2 horrible UI
Manchester
London
Bristol – 7.5%
Gloucester – train
Chepstow – Castle
7.02
Penarth and spillage
Smock
Coming in October 2013
Otley beer festival
Chepstow and Castle
All of this
And a beer and bangers festival next week
The R W Nash Blog 