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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 [...]

Hendon March 2007

Hendon March 2007

One of the most famous collection of preserved aircraft in the world- museum in Hendon. Author Robert Hodgson visited RAF museum at Hendon in March 2007 and here are some photos of aircraft not photographed on previous visits.

Helicopter in rescue yellow color

Images present following airplanes: Sikorsky Hoverfly I s/n KK995, Westland Whirlwind HAR10 s/n XP299, [...]

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, [...]

IPMS Flanders 2006

Small impression from a vist to the IPMS Flandres event at Hoboken, a small town near Antwerp - Belgium. Attached a photographic impression of this event. Date of event 25. March 2006.
Nico Braas