The fourth, in alphabetical order, museum I dropped by during my summer vacation to the UK.Oscar EW 5894 Phallus Tactical Fighter Bomber, aka Folland Gnat T1, in Red Arrows livery. Though the museum credits it to Hawker Siddley instead of Folland, I'm guessing the usual military industry ownership shenanigans were at play at some point.
De Havilland DH9AA strategic bomber from the arse end of WW1, the one seen here having been restored after getting shot down in October of 1918.
Spitfire Mk Vb
Westland Sea King HAR3
Aircraft stowed crash axe. In case you find that your aircraft really needs an extra emergency exit right about now.
AJ 168 Martel missileType 17054 Mk. 1C SonobuoyAnti-submarine bomb, 12000lbs Medium CapacityNow the last one looks very compact for a weapon that's by its name supposedly in the same ballpark as the Tallboy, so I'm guessing that might be a title slapped on there to indicate A Real Big Kaboomâ„¢ rather than its actual weight. It is, in polite speech, a "special weapon", and judging by photos I think it's what the Americans called the Mark 101 Lulu, which'd place the A Real Big Kaboomâ„¢ more specifically at 11kt.
TIALD pod (Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator). Rushed from early prototype to actually-sorta-combat-ready in about a month so it could take part in the 1991 Gulf War (and as the paintjob may suggest this isn't a museum dummy, but one of the two actual pods used there) via a crunch session that'd make Bioware proud. Tracy there is apparently from a comic called Viz, the other pod was (after some confusion it seems) named Sandra.
Short Sunderland patrol bomber.
Downtown Sunderland.
Bleriot XXVII
>>65557662Bongs sure do love their Viz nose artCool stuff anyway, it's a pretty interesting museum. Have you done the naval museums in Portsmouth yet? They have quite a few good ones. The Naval Firepower museum was breddy good and very /k/ related
Caudron G.3Rear fuselages being highly optional at the time.Despite the current livery this specific aircraft served in the Belgian air force during the war.
>>65557668>Have you done the naval museums in Portsmouth yet?No. I have had vague plans for a general UK-by-train trip to catch a number of the museums spread across the country, but that remains for some indeterminate point in the future.
Sopwith Triplane, one of two known survivors (so now I've seen both, the other one's in Monino).This is the aircraft that inspired the Fokker Dr.1, and the two did well enough to inspire a number of other triplanes since that was apparently the shit. But in hindsight, no, triple wings are not the way (wingtip drag...), these aircraft simply had enough other advances in them that they did well despite the triple wings.
Observation balloon gondola, no defensive machine gun there so I guess it's from before aircraft started hunting them.
Vickers F.B.5 "gunbus" (replica, built in the mid sixties).One of the many pusher proper designs that were floating around before gun synchronisation gear were invented.
Anti-airship incendiary bombSpikes to rip through/tangle with the gas bag, and then an incendiary/explosive charge in the middle to get things going (though how that charge got going in turn remains a mystery).
Air-dropped flechettes, reputedly for anti-airship work.
>>65557648>I'm guessing the usual military industry ownership shenanigans were at play at some point.Folland was bought up by Hawker Siddeley in 1959 (roughly the same time it was introduced to RAF service)>>65557659>It is, in polite speech, a "special weapon", and judging by photos I think it's what the Americans called the Mark 101 LuluYeah, bongs tended to refer to nuclear weapons as "specials" (weirdly though, the label is wrong it should be Bomb, AS, 1200 lb, MC.)
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2bOriginally a fighter, but as it slipped into obsolescence in that role it was adapted for night bomber duty instead.
>>65557662>Tracy there is apparently from a comic called Viz, the other pod was (after some confusion it seems) named Sandra.>>65557668>Bongs sure do love their Viz nose artIt's also the source of Buster Gonad
Albatros D.Va (flying replica)>>65557684>the label is wrong it should be Bomb, AS, 1200 lb, MCThe explains the issues I had with googling it up.
>>65557668> The Naval Firepower museum was breddy good and very /k/ relatedTell me more....
Sopwith Camel
Fokker D.VII
0.303 Mk.1* Vickers Machine Gun
0.303 Mk.II* Lewis Machine Gun
Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 (replica)
Hucks starter
Hawker Hart Mk.IIA bomber that happily outran most fighters of its day, bringing about some fighter replacement programs and perhaps also being in part to blame for the "the bomber always gets through" bit.
Supermarine Southhampton fuselage
Airship bridge
Spitfire LF.XVIEOne of the least orthodox looking Spitfire variants.
Vickers gas operated No.1 Mk.I .303 machine gunBrowning Mk.II .303 machine gunVickers Mk.III .303 machien gun
Type G28 and G22 gun cameras. The rather gun-like look of the G28 was to add a bit of realism to exercises.
Hawker Typhoon 1BFast down low, but struggling a bit up high, so it mostly got to do ground attack and was IIRC generally seen as a bit of a dud.
Beaufighter TF.X anti-shipping strike fighter
Molins 6-pounder Class M gunA 6-pounder anti-tank gun (of which there were a lot free for other use due to the 17 pounder having been introduced) adapted for aircraft use by adding an autoloader, the latter designed and built by Molins, a company that specialised in cigarette handling machines. A few of these were fitted into Mosquito aircraft (nope, no Beaufighters, despite where it's displayed), which were then promptly sent off to Coastal Command as the RAF decided to focus on rockets for anti-tank work.In a somewhat adorable but probably rather misguided attempt to be helpful the sign provided kilogram conversions for 6-pounder and 17-pounder.
AN/M40 HE 360lbs Cluster Bomb
Handley Page Hampden TB Mk.1
Not very roomy inside.
Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber
If you get time jump on a train to leeds and visit the royal armouries museum
>>65557695Sex
This museum seems especially unhappy about submarines... 15-20kt.>>65557757That's pretty much #1 on the list if I ever get around to that UK-by-train trip.
Air-launched 18" Mk.XII Torpedo
Supermarine Stranraer
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2
Hunting Percival Pembroke
Bristol Sycamore HR.12
Spitfire Mk IaThe specific aircraft here being an actual Battle of Britain survivor. It's pilot scored a shared kill of a Ju88.
The other one.
Hawker Hurricane Mk IThis one apparently being a survivor of both the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain, though it spent the latter parts of the latter patrolling up north.
Avro Lancaster Mk IThe Lancaster's life expectancy when built was 21 sorties. The one seen here managed 137 before retiring in April 1945, split between the No. 83 squadron and Australia's No. 467 squadron.
The somewhat unusual lengthy bomb bay.
22000lbs Grand Slam bomb on Type H bomb trolley.
Bouncy bouncy
Consolidated B-24L Liberator
Kawasaki Ki-100Supposedly one of the better fighters of the war (despite being an emergency refit of the Ki-61 to use the Mitsubishi Ha-112-II radial engine), but it showed up so late and in so few numbers that it never even got an allied reporting name. Only one known to still exist.
Ki-46-IIIHigh and fast recon aircraft, the known survivors being this one and an unrestored wreck recovered form an abandoned jungle airfield in 2003. Toshiro Mifune was a recon pilot in WW2 and flew, amongst other things, the Ki-46, I don't know if he flew the -III variant specifically though.
Yokosuka MXYZ Ohka
Heinkel He-111 H-20, a paratrooper carrying version.
Junker Ju 87D/G2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEBHfPRXb0
Avro Anson Mk I
Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4 night fighter
>>65557843
Mosquito B35
thanks OP
PC1400X "Fritz X"
Blue Steel air-launched nuclear standoff missile missile on its Matador carrier.
Paveway III
And to deliver such things... (Just beware of the co-pilot messing with the oxygen system.)
Avro Vulcan B Mk II
Cockpit section of a Handley Page Viktor K2
Me163B-1A
Very nice, been years since I visited Hendon>>65557668Though the Buccaneers did have some notable exceptions, one example being on display at ElvingtonSeconded with the Naval museums in Portsmouth and Gosport>>65557689>The Naval Firepower museumFormer RN Armaments Depot, now home to just about every example of of gun, munition and bomb the RN used. Also has a craft brewery nearby that sells their beers in the museums gift shops. Only tried their cask ale myself.
Mk 16 Hose Drum Unit, used on the tanker-converted Valiants.
B-17G (Boeing, not SAAB)
Assorted asses.
He 162 Volksjäger
P-51D
Fairey Battle Mk 1, a light bomber that did a marvellous job of inflating Luftwaffe kill counts.
Bf 109E-3Shot down and force landed during the Battle of Britain, repaired using parts form a few other 109s (I guess that explains what looks to me like an E-4 canopy), and used for test and evaluation flights.
Fiat Cr.42 Falco
Vampire F3
What if the Typhoon, but good?
Hawker Tempest
Napier Sabre IIIAn H24 engine producing 2250hp at 4000rpm
Gloster Meteor F8
>>65557963Ren og pur sex
English Electric Canberra PR3Photo-recon version of the Canberra bomber.The Canberra was quite an export success. Amongst other Sweden bought a few (two I think), upgraded the electrical power output significantly, and flew them as transports. Yep, transport,s nothing but transports. Don't worry about why you'd use a supersonic bomber for that job, the extra antennas all over the fuselage, or that they seemed to only transport stuff to the same airfield they took off from via a lengthy back-and-forth flight near USSR territorial waters out over the Baltic. Transports.
>>65557914>ElvingtonHaven't heard that name in years. York's got some pretty good /k/-adjacent stuff. The city walls (definitely walk the whole loop), Clifford's Tower, Yorkshire Regiment museum. And only 25 mins by train to Leeds to get to the Royal Armouries. Plus the NRM for train autists>Also has a craft brewery nearby that sells their beers in the museums gift shops. Only tried their cask ale myself.Yeah I remember their beer being good. More museums need an attached brewery lmao
BAC Jet provost T5.A
English Electric Lightning F6
Red Top missile.
Firestreak missile.
>>65557770There probably are historic reasons for that, yes.
One of the Lightning's swappable pot bellies.
Hawker Hunter FGA9One thing I've seen little mention of in British museums is that the Hunter originally couldn't use its guns without the muzzle blasts making the engines choke out. Luckily they managed to fix that eventually, as it'd be a waste of an otherwise excellent fighter aircraft had they not.
Swapping over to my wide angle lens... and accidentally nudging the aperture ring from A to 22 in the process. Any tighter and we'd probably start seeing diffraction rings...
Phantom
Westland Wessex HCC4
A slightly worse for wear Handley Page Halifax Mk. II
Focke-Achgelis FA 330A-1Not a helicopter, but a rotary kite meant to be towed behind a surfaced U-boot, since they didn't have any tall mast for anyone to look around for ships from. From what I heard it actually worked kinda ok.
Jaguar GR1
Typhoon, again
Harrier GR9A
Tornado GR1B
ASRAAM, AMRAAM, Meteor, Brimstone, Paveway II, 1000lbs GP bomb, ALARMThe last one there is a peculiar anti-radiation missile that dealt with the target shutting down the emitter by incorporating a small parachute, allowing it to loiter around for a while in the hopes of them turning it on again.
MQ-1 Predator
Buccaneer, in Gulf War livery.
WE.177C nuclear bomb, 200kt.
BAE Stingray air-dropped (dunno about dropping it from a Banana though) anti-submarine torpedo.
MBDA Sea Eagle ASM
Storm Shadow
>>65558107What a big goofy boi
Probably not a great place to stand relative to an actually flying Harrier.
JP223 Airfield Denial Weapon.A "bomblet dispenser", ie a more orderly and controlled cluster bomb, that you didn't actually drop but instead just carried along as you flew over whatever runway it was you wanted well cratered. Let's hope the AA is mild. IIRC someone would later on get the idea that that it was near enough a lifting body design, so with some small fins for stability you could drop it form a non-negligible distance and not fly right over whatever triple-A was present, add some further tweaks and that gave us the Swedish BK90. That in turn is then supposed to be a rather distant ancestor of the Taurus KEPD.
Reed Snow warhead, 1.1mt. Used in the Blue Steel missile.And that should be the image limit I believe, so the customary archive of these and a few hundred more photos: https://www.mediafire.com/file/wbp9shp5eoi8d5a/England_-_RAF_Museum_London.zip
>>65557687>>65557668>>65557662For the americans, Viz magazine was probably the UK equivalent of "Mad " magazine in having a subversive, often anti-establishment comedy, that was often vulgar and mocked society with characters like "the fat slags", or "Cockney wanker". It came out of the punk fanzine scene of the end of the 70's, and was at its peak popularity around 1990, and the gulf war era. Apparently its still being printed, but I've not seen a copy this century...
>>65557705bloody lovely
good shit
>>65558126Looks like that Tornado behind it is from 617 squadron
>>65557793Beauty
>>65558011>>65558019Muh dick
>>65557748rare>>65557772>>65557773>>65557991nice
>>65557944I used to use that emblem in War Thunder on my 109s
/p/fag here. What camera did you shoot on?
>>65557990Yeah, I also remember Camp Eden (though that's halfway to Scarborough from there) being pretty good as a kid.>More museums need an attached brewery lmaoLol, the only other one I can think is the distillery near the Titanic museum in Belfast - though that's also where HMS Caroline is moored
>>65559243the one he had
>>65558040phuck yeah>>65558011was hoping there'd be a Lightning in the set, fuckin nice
>>65558040What the hell, it's massive
>>65559243Nikon Zf, mostly with a Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 G2 on it, and when necessary to squeeze everything into the frame a Viltrox 16mm f/1.8. Though as I'm often finding myself wishing for more zoom and rarely going down to even f/4 due to the depth of field, to say nothing of f/2.8, I'm probably going to get myself as Nikon 24-120 f/4 before my next vacation trip and use that as the main lens instead.>>65559385About the same length and empty weight as an F-15. So, yeah, it's a big boy.
I went there! Still got my booklet.
>>65557880i understood that referencethank OP, great pictures
>>65557648the muslims will probably burn that whole place down eventually
>>65558117Now that's a proper Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
