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Foggy Cold War Jets
Friendly and helpful staff
An excellent museum
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
Four Years Later
A welcome revisit
And a till curry failure (nearly)
Cold War and Beer
The RAF Museum at Hendon
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| The RAF Museum in Hendon. | Always early. | |
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| Bloodhound Gate Guardian. | Oman Air Force Hunter Gate Guardian. | |
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| F-35 and it’s not even in service yet. | Harrier GR3 – XZ997. | |
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| Buccaneer S2B – XW547. | Open air brakes and Paveway III. | |
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| Tornado GR1B – X003-2283. | Victor K2 – XM717. | |
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| Avro Lancaster 1 – R5868. | B17G – 77233. | |
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| Avro Vulcan B2 – XL318 | Blue Steel. | |
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| Phantom FGR2 – XV424. | Lightning P6 – XS925. | |
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| Tornado F3 – ZE887. | Canberra PR3 – WE139. |
November 13 2014
Jet Age Museum 03 – The Video
Indian Summer
With a warm and friendly welcome
Jet Age 03 – September 2014
The return of the return. New planes, fine weather and the same friendly, helpful staff.
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Bedwas – The paper run. |
Asda in Gloucester. |
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Asda – the Big Full English. |
XM569 |
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Vulcan B.2 XM569 |
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Original and reflection. |
Just the reflection. |
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Javelin FAW.9 – XH903 |
With its’ Firestreak and engine. |
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Close up of the inert Firestreak. |
The tail. |
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Museum entrance. |
The outside wall. |
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My bed for the night. |
The attached watering hole. |
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