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RIAT 2007

RIAT 2007

The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]

Flying Legends Air Show 2007

Flying Legends Air Show 2007

The Flying Legends Air Show is held every year at the famous World War II airfield of Duxford. You can expect to see a variety of vintage warbirds performing air displays. Duxford is also the home of The Fighter Collection as well as the Imperial War Museum collection. Hawk 75 in French WW2 camouflage and [...]

Brussels Air Museum

Brussels Air Museum

Here are my photos from Brussels Air Museum. This is one of the very large collection in Europe with the samples of airplanes cover age from WW1 to the present date. Hawker Hunter MiG 23BN s/n 23, Mil Mi-24D s/n 96+33, Dassault MD-450 Ouragan s/n 320, Yakovlev Yak 11 s/n 1706, Mig 15bis s/n 3911, [...]

RAF Northolt

RAF Northolt

RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in north west Greater London, England. Approximately 10 kilometres (6 miles) north of London Heathrow Airport, it also handles a large number of private civilian flights. RAF Northolt is actually situated in neighbouring Ruislip; most early RAF airfields were named after [...]

Biggin Hill 2007

Biggin Hill 2007

The show was opened by a unique formation of Spitfire PR19, of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, and Typhoon F2 from 29Sqn, both based at Coningsby. The RAF has always given full support to the Biggin Hill Airshow. The 2007 Air Fair was a great event at all. Images bellow present following aircrafts: Biggin [...]

Blackburn Beverley C1 s/n XB259

Blackburn Beverley C1 s/n XB259

Originally designed and built by General Aircraft as the GAL.60 Universal Freighter, the first aircraft was dismantled at the Feltham, Middlesex factory and transported to Brough in Yorkshire to have its maiden flight on 1950-06-20. This was followed by a second, the GAL.65, which was modified from the original. Clamshell doors replaced a combination of [...]

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Bournemouth Aviation Museum is the only UK Charitable Museum dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public at large, amongst others, operational examples of historic aircraft appreciated by the many hundreds of thousands attending UK airshows. Bournemouth Aviation Museum Bournemouth Aviation Museum occupies a 30,000 sq ft hanger at Bournemouth International Airport and is run [...]

Conroy CL-44-0 Guppy

Conroy CL-44-0 Guppy

The aircraft was designed by Jack Conroy as a transport aircraft that could be used to ferry three Rolls-Royce RB.211 jet engines from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Palmdale, California. The engines were to be installed on the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar Airliner.  The Skymonster is based on the Canadair CL-44 freighter (itself a derivative of the [...]

Gatwick Air Museum

Gatwick Air Museum

The Gatwick Aviation Museum is located on the boundary of London Gatwick Airport in the village of Charlwood, Surrey. Originally started in 1987 by Peter Vallance a local businessman as a private collection. It became a registered charity in 1999 with the objective of providing awareness of local aviation history and as an educational centre [...]