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Newark Air Museum–The Indoor Birds
Nice and warm
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| SAAB Viggen AJSH 37 – 373 918 | Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 –
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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
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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| 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 –
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But magnificent
Newark Air Museum–Vulcan B.2 XM594
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
With a Nimrod and a Vulcan
In cold March snow flurries
East Midlands Aeropark
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
With all three V Bombers
And an exit survey
RAF Museum Cosford–Part 04
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
RAF Museum Cosford–Part 03
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
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 |
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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
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
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