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Hall 4 SST and Things

10/08/2013 Leave a comment

Music

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See we can be friends with the French.    
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    Hawker P1127 – XP841
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Royal Navy Hunter T8M – XL580   Sea Harrier FRS 1 – XZ493
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Wessex HU5 – XT765/J    
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Inside the Concorde – A test version    
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The sharp end   Daleks under the Concorde
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    And done

And Dalek Food

Hall Three–On The Ark

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Back to the 70s

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Buccaneer S2B – XV333   Buccaneer S1 – XN957
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    Seahawk FGA 6 – XW856
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Fairey Gannet AEW 3 – XL503   Phantom FG 1 – XT596
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When we still had it

Hall Two and it’s Polish

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WWII and Korea

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Fairey Swordfish II – HS618/A2001   Fairey Fulmar I – G-AIBE
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Not safe here either   Grumman Martlet (Wildcat)
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With the big radial up front   Chance Vought Corsair IV
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Seafire F.17 – SX137   Hawker Sea Fury FB 11
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Mig 15bis   Fairey Firefly TT1
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Just love the Corsair   Grumman Avenger – ECM6b

And more DW too

East Midlands Aeropark

10/03/2013 Leave a comment

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 Museum Cosford–Part 04

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RAF Museum Cosford–Part 03

09/03/2013 1 comment

With lottery money

 

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Modern design, entrance bottom right   Just in case you got confused
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As it says   And its bomb bay
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Skybolt and Blue Steel  

Handley Page Victor K2

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Vickers Valiant B1

  Centurion
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21PF

  Vulcan and Bloodhound
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Polaris A3  

English Electric Lightning F1/P1B

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Thor  

Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low IV

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Leopard 1  

Short Brothers Belfast

 

But it is good

RAF Museum Cosford–Part 02

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The first two halls

 

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As it says  

English Electric P1A

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Short Brothers SB5 WG768

 

Bristol Type 188

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British Aircraft Corporation TSR 2

  And with the equipment bay open
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Gloster Meteor F8 Prone Position

 

Panavia Tornado P02

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Hunting H126

 

Messerschmitt Me 163B-1a Komet

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BAe Harrier GR9A

 

de Havilland Mosquito TT35

 

Inside, in the dry.

RAF Museum Cosford–Part 01

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In search of V Bombers

 

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Gate Guardian – Bristol Britannia 312   And again I arrived before the doors opened.
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Dominie T.Mk.1

 

Nimrod R.Mk.1

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Another view – XV249   Dutch Navy – Lockheed SP-2H Neptune

 

And drizzle

Back to Bovington

10/03/2012 Leave a comment

Tank Museum-New Hall-Upto The Present Day

09/03/2012 Leave a comment
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