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This lady has the Wellesbourne local air traffic, firmly under control.
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Late morning on 30 August 1940, No 43 Squadron, based at RAF Tangmere, was airborne and engaging enemy aircraft over East Sussex. At 1150 hours, one of its Hurricanes, flown by twenty year old Sergeant Pilot Dennis Noble, was seen to dive away from the battle. Noble, sadly had been shot and killed in his aircraft and was therefore unable to pull out of the dive. His aircraft crashed vertically into the pavement of Woodhouse Road, Hove, near Brighton.
In August 1940, following his death, Dennis Noble was buried in Retford. However, when Keith Arnold, (the Museum’s Head of Maintenance) led an excavation of the crash site in November 1996 substantial remains of the pilot were found. A second funeral, with full military honours, took place in Retford on 22 January 1997.
SERGEANT PILOT DENNIS NOBLE’S HURRICANE, P3179, IS DISPLAYED IN THE MUSEUM’S BATTLE OF BRITAIN HALL AS A MEMORIAL TO THOSE OF THE ‘THE FEW’ WHO WERE KILLED DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
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Some work to do, by the excellent Midland Air Museum at Coventry Airport, to restore this old Phantom to its former glory ! c/n 329
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The Kestrel, serial number XS695, is one of only nine built by Hawker-Siddeley. Its main role was to evaluate vertical take-off in near service conditions. Fitted with a single Bristol Siddeley Pegasus engine and single seat cockpit, the success of the Kestrel came little more than a year before its successor, the Harrier, made its first flight. The Harrier served successfully with the Royal Air Force until 2011.
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Barton Airport officially opened on 29th January 1930 with completion of the Control Tower (the first in the UK) and a large Hangar, which was designed to house the most advanced passenger aircraft of the day, the Imperial Airways Argosy. The airport became the first municipal airfield in the UK to be licensed by the Air Ministry.
The first landing was by an Avro Avian, with the first large aircraft to use the airfield being Imperial Airway’s three-engine Argosy on 23rd May 1930
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The Bristol 188 was the first Bristol turbojet aeroplane to be built. Two flying examples were constructed with the objective of reaching and sustaining twice the speed of sound for long enough to enable steady-state kinetic heating effects on the structure to be experienced and recorded.
After considerable production delays the first aircraft XF923, made its maiden flight 14 April 1962. First flight of XF926,from Filton ,was 29 April 1963.
Both aircraft were grounded indefinitely and the project suspended in February 1964, partly due to problems of high fuel consumption and the inability to reach sustained high speed and achieving the original operational requirement for the project.
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The Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol were monoplane military advanced trainer aircraft built for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by Boulton Paul Aircraft. Developed in the late 1940s the Balliol was designed to replace the North American Harvard trainer and used the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, with the Sea Balliol a naval version for deck landing training.
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Built in 1942 at Leipzig by Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH, probably at its Mockau plant. Construction started as a Bf109F-3, but converted to Bf109G-2/Trop standard during construction.
Recently transferred to Cosford from the RAF Museum, Hendon to make space for the 2018 RAF Centenary celebrations.
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Surprising what you might find at the back of an industrial estate!!
ZA399 first flew in November 1982 and played a key role during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, where it was tasked with daring low and medium altitude bombing missions against heavily defended Iraqi targets. Known as ‘Granny‘ during the conflict, ZA399 was among 60 GR1s deployed to air bases at Muharraq in Bahrain, as well as Tabuk and Dhahran in Saudi Arabia.After almost 20 years service, the ex-617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron strike jet was relegated to secondary ground instructional duties at RAF St Athan in Wales until 2006, when it was transferred RAF Cosford. Purchased by Oliver Valves Ltd in 2013, the decorated Tornado can now be seen guarding the entrance to their premises in Knutsford, Cheshire.
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LAA Rally
Built 1952. Ex Italian Army MM52-2392 E.I.69
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First photo on AC from Caernarfon Airport, Wales
XJ726 is an exhibit in the excellent Airworld Aviation Museum at the airport.
http://www.airworldmuseum.com/
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Ex RAF WP905. Painted as 18671:671, Royal Canadian Air Force
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