RAF Museum Cosford Photos (01/02/05)

[andrewman]

Had a day out at the RAF Cosford Museum today, and it was a very nice and chilled out day. Plenty of interesting stuff to see and lots of changes since my last visit a few years back.

Having a good close up look at the outdoor stuff was nice, and so was the look inside the Vulcan B1 cockpit.

Nice to get a good look at the Lincoln and the German and Japanese stuff, oh and the art gallery is most impressive and worth a look around. There are TV's around the museum showing various DVDs and the British Airways one is particularly nice.

Also got to see some Jet Provost's doing short taxi runs, these were on the main airfield, they are used for training ground support staff etc.

Hunter at museum site entrance.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/01.jpg

Jetstream

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/02.jpg

Trident

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/03.jpg

P51 was at Hendon until 2003.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/04.jpg

The oldest Spitfire left in the world.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/05.jpg

Lincoln.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/06.jpg

Dakota.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/07.jpg

Another Jetstream.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/08.jpg

A drone.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/09.jpg

V1.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/10.jpg

Gnat.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/11.jpg

Gnat from another angle.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/12.jpg

Another Gnat.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/13.jpg

B24.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/14.jpg

707.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/15.jpg

Comet.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/16.jpg

Neptune.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/17.jpg

Rather batterd looking Hunter.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/18.jpg

Batterd Hunter again.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/19.jpg

Blue Steal.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/20.jpg

Avro 707.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/21.jpg

Prone position test bed Meteor.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/22.jpg

TSR 2.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/23.jpg

BAC 188.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/24.jpg

Hurricane.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/25.jpg

Jet Provost, they open this up if they have enough staff, today it was shut.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/26.jpg

P1A ( Lightning development aircraft)

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/27.jpg

The ground school Jet Provost\'s.

http://Uk-Jets.me.uk/external05/cosfordmuseum/28.jpg

[Centaurus]

Andrewman. Fantastic photos and thank you so much for putting them on Pprune. The prone Meteor picture reminded me of the time I was undergoing an Avro 748 type rating at Woodford in 1966 prior to ferrying the VIP version back to Australia for the RAAF. My instructor on the 748 was test pilot Eric Franklin who I believe did some of the original test flying on the prone Meteor.
Eric was a fine instructor. Other test pilots at Woodford at the time was Jimmy Harrison, Bill Else and Tony Blackman.

[andrewman]

Thanks Centaurus :)

[treadigraph]

Ah, yes, Cosford - I MUST go there this year. Been saying that for yonks... Bristol 188... mmmmm....

Is that the Mustang that used to live at Hendon?

[Duxford_Eagles]

yes, it's the same bitsa Mustang that used to be at Hendon.

The "Drone" is infact an extremely rare Holzbrau-Kissing Enzian surface to air missile.