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A very sad end for this once beautiful aircraft. Built 1952. Ex Royal Navy WM735
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G-APAS was the twenty-second DH106 Comet aircraft built at Hatfield in Hertfordshire and the tenth Mark 1A aircraft. She was assigned the serial number 06022 and undertook her first flight on 16 Match 1953. The aircraft was delivered to Air France and assigned the registration code F-BGNZ. Following a series of Comet aircraft crashes attributed to metal fatigue she was returned to de Havilland in June 1956.
F-BGNZ was converted to a Mark 1XB configuration in March 1957 emerging with revised cabin windows and strengthened fuselage and re-registered as G-APAS in May 1957. She served for UK government Ministry of Supply as XM823 and painted in RAF Transport Command colours before retirement to RAF Cosford in 1978. Re-painted in BOAC livery - it is the earliest surviving complete Comet aircraft.
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The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only operational jet aircraft during the Second World War. The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, pioneered by Sir Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd. Development of the aircraft itself began in 1940, although work on the engines had been under way since 1936. The Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with No. 616 Squadron RAF. Nicknamed the "Meatbox", the Meteor was not a sophisticated aircraft in its aerodynamics, but proved to be a successful combat fighter.
WS739 is one of the final Meteor night fighter variants NF.14. First flown on 23 October 1953, the NF.14 was based on the NF.12 but had an even longer nose, extended by a further 17 inches to accommodate new equipment, increasing the total length to 51 ft 4 in (15.65 m)!
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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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Surrendered to the RAF Regiment at Husum airfield, Schleswig - Holstein, close to the Danish border. By late April 1945 Husum had become the base of the last operational Me163 Unit, II/JG400 with some 80 Me163B aircraft on strength, largely grounded due to lack of fuel.
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Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company.[2] After experimenting with model aeroplanes, he made flight trials in 1907–08 with a full size aeroplane at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, and became the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later with a triplane on Walthamstow Marshes.
This replica was built by Avro apprentices in 1952
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The prototype FRED (Flying Runabout Experimental Design) was designed and built by E.C. Clutton and E.W. Sherry between 1957 and 1963. The aircraft, registered G-ASZY, first flew at Meir aerodrome, Stoke-on-Trent on 3 November 1963. It was a single-seat wood and fabric parasol monoplane powered originally by a Triumph 5T motorcycle engine. By 1968 it was flying with a converted Volkswagen engine. The Continental A-65 65 hp (48 kW) four stroke powerplant has also been used. The plans were made available to allow the aircraft to be homebuilt and thirty to forty examples have been built around the world.
Just put the wings and tail on....then away to fly !
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ZA195 (cn 912034/DB.1) First flown on 9th September 1982. FRS.2 prototype from A&AEE Boscombe Down
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