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Duxford 2007

Duxford 2007

Duxford is an excellent museum and must rate as one of the best aircraft museums in the world, it is located in Cambridgeshire and was an active airfield during the Second World War. The famous pilot Douglas Bader was based at Duxford also the film Battle of Britain was filmed here.
Followingg airplanes are present on [...]

Biggin Hill 2006

Biggin Hill 2006

One of the very large air show held in the UK where unique collection of vintage airplanes is presented in airworthy condition. But interesting to see is also some WW1 replicas. Images bellow show following types:

Harrier
Noorduyn AT-16 Harvard IIB s/n FE788, Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress s/n 124485, Morane Saulnier MS505 Criquet s/n DM+BK, Nord 1002 [...]

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

One of the many of museums in the UK is this small one- City of Norwich Aviation Museum. This Museum is located just off the A140 Norwich to Cromer road, on the north side of Norwich airport. This nice small collection have following airplanes present on images bellow:

Lightning
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star s/n 51-6718, Dassault Mystere [...]

Various combat types

Various combat types

Images of the various combat planes, starting with Albatros WW1 combat plane up to the modern jet age. Most of the images show German airplanes and prototypes. Images bellow present following types:

Seahawk
Albatros D.12, Avro Arrow, B-25 Michell MLD, BAC Lightning and Soviet Tupolev Bear, Fairey Firefly Turget Tug MLD, Fokker C.Vd, Hawker Hunter T.7 KLU, [...]