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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The museums event was called “Thunder Day”, we also had lots of rain and a Lightning |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Buccaneer S2B. XX901 had an illustrious service record with the Royal Air Force. It was saved from scrapping by the Buccaneer Aircrew Association and is painted in the Gulf War scheme, including the 'Flying Mermaid' nose art. |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Recently had is Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radial engines rebuild and are now running again |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c, The Yorkshire Air Museum's replica was built by the apprentices at RAF Halton and was used by the Royal Air Force as a display aircraft for many years. |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The Museum's Blackburn Mercury Monoplane replica was built for Yorkshire Television for the Edwardian drama series 'Flambards', and was taxied with a car engine |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 After retiring from RAF Kinloss, Nimrod XV250 arrived at the Yorkshire Air Museum on 13th April 2010 |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Canberra cockpit |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The Museum’s Halifax reconstruction is based on a section of the fuselage of Halifax II, HR792, which carried out an emergency landing on the Isle of Lewis in 1945. The wings came from Hastings, TG536 |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The Museum's aircraft was built at Bagington, Coventry, in February 1954. In July 1954, it was issued to 152 Squadron at Wattisham. It served with the No.1 Air Navigation School at Thorney Island and later at No.2 School at Stradishall |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Hunter FGA.78. The Museum's aircraft was originally a Mk 6, built under licence in Holland and served with the Royal Dutch Air Force before conversion to an FGA.78. It was with the Qatar Air Force for ten years, coming to the Museum in 1992. |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Dassault Mirage IIIE 538, was presented to the Museum by the French Air Force. It had been flown in 1972 by Museum member, Colonel Denis Turina, whose father flew from Elvington in the Second World War. The aircraft last flew in 1993. |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Dassault Mirage IIIE 538, was presented to the Museum by the French Air Force. It had been flown in 1972 by Museum member, Colonel Denis Turina, whose father flew from Elvington in the Second World War. The aircraft last flew in 1993. |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Designed by H P Folland in 1916, and built at the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, the SE.5a was a single-seat biplane ‘fighting scout’ powered by a Hispano-Suiza derived water-cooled V8 engine |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The de Havilland DH104 Devon was a military version of the de Havilland Dove short-haul airliner, one of Britain’s most successful post-war civil designs. |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The Museum's aircraft, previously at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, was the last Gannet in service with No 849 Squadron and the last Gannet to display at air shows |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 recently repainted,now minus its D-Day invasion stripes |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 now fitted with over wing fuel tanks |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 Meteor F8, WL168 was built at Hucclecote as part of the last batch of the 1090 F.8s built and entered service with the Royal Air Force in February 1954. For the first year it was with 111 Squadron at North Weald, then with 604 Sqn at the same airfield |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 After retiring from RAF Kinloss, Nimrod XV250 arrived at the Yorkshire Air Museum on 13th April 2010 |
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X4EV Airport, 2012-06-03 The Museum's aircraft was built at Bagington, Coventry, in February 1954. In July 1954, it was issued to 152 Squadron at Wattisham. It served with the No.1 Air Navigation School at Thorney Island and later at No.2 School at Stradishall |
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