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Midlands Air Museum–Vulcan B.2 XL360

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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

Midlands Air Museum – Hanger

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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

Newark Air Museum – In The Snow

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Newark Air Museum–The Indoor Birds

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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

Newark Air Museum–The Snow Birds

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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 –

WS739

   

But magnificent

Newark Air Museum–Vulcan B.2 XM594

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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

East Midlands Aeropark

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East Midlands Aeropark

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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

RAF Cosford Museum – March 2013

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RAF Museum Cosford–Part 04

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And the rest

 

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de Havilland Comet 1XB

 

Hawker Siddeley Andover E3A

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Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C1 (rear)

  V2
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Fritz X  

Lockheed Hercules C130K Mk3

 

A great day out