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IWM Duxford–Gate and Outside

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Rather pricey, especially the coffee

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Gate Guardians   A Comet
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And a Glass Fibre Hurricane   Entrance – £17.50
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Avro Shackleton Mark 3 minus wing tips   With 20mm still in place
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Handley Page Victor BK1A – XH648    
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She’s a tanker    

But very good

Midlands Air Museum

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Midlands Air Museum–Outdoors

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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

Midlands Air Museum–Vulcan B.2 XL360

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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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IMG_7015   IMG_7017
     
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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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