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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Dream Team Updates–Monday 11 March 2013

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For the Weekend of 09/10 March 2013

Position Team Manager Points
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
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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