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Aviation Wrecks and Relics Photography
Reports from Museums and of Vintage Aircraft

http://www.targeta.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/relics_intro.htm

[kingpin]

Hello

Thanks for the link! I would SO love to go to the Royal Air Force museum. Maybe get over the pond one of these years.. I went to the Paris Air Show in 1987 and did every museum I could find over there.

Thanks again

Glen

[jim]

I thought I would just add a little note here,
top of any visit to England must be the superb Fleet Air Arm museum in Somerset. (with lots of US warbirds for our American cousins to see).

This is a spectacular museum of the highest quality yet very underated.
I think its the best in the UK.

May I suggest folks drop in to the FAA website and have a look see.

[JustPlaneNuttz]

Originally Posted by jim

I thought I would just add a little note here,
top of any visit to England must be the superb Fleet Air Arm museum in Somerset. (with lots of US warbirds for our American cousins to see).

This is a spectacular museum of the highest quality yet very underated.
I think its the best in the UK.

May I suggest folks drop in to the FAA website and have a look see.

With all due respect, Jim, my next trip to your world will most certainly have to have Hendon & Cosford at the top of the list, since I have never seen them before.

Speaking of wrecks, I'd sure like to see that Halifax Mk II (W1048) before it is reduced to a bag of red dust. And then there is the Bristol Britannia, but that is at Duxford, yes?

JPN

[Cruver Collecter]

Thanks for posting the link.

[djjeffhall]

Wow, that is a great website. Thanks for posting the link.

[jim]

Originally Posted by JustPlaneNuttz

With all due respect, Jim, my next trip to your world will most certainly have to have Hendon & Cosford at the top of the list, since I have never seen them before.

Speaking of wrecks, I'd sure like to see that Halifax Mk II (W1048) before it is reduced to a bag of red dust. And then there is the Bristol Britannia, but that is at Duxford, yes?

JPN

Yes indeed.
The Halifax is at Hendon. The Britainia is at Duxford.


Hendon Cosford Duxford and FAA museum are the top 4 places in the UK ,

There are many other great places also.

One point in favour of the FAA museum in Somerset is that its in an area of beautiful scenery and with lots of history going back to the time of the earliest settlers to these shores somewhere around 8,000 years ago.
AND DONT FORGET ITS CIDER COUNTRY !!!


( I should add that the earliest "proven" human presence in Britain goes back 30,000 years.

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by JustPlaneNuttz

Speaking of wrecks, I'd sure like to see that Halifax Mk II (W1048) before it is reduced to a bag of red dust.

And then there is the Bristol Britannia, but that is at Duxford, yes? JPN

By the time you get here J.P.N. it will be just Red-dust on a North-London floor !!!!!!!!

Regarding the Brittannia - G - AOVT she DOESN'T fall into the category of wrecks & relics........

If (big IF here) you time your visit right, the society who run/own/organise the Airliners at Duxford (they AREN'T owned/operated by the I.W.M.) occasionally open up the inside of one of their exhibits; so you can walk round inside.......

I've been inside G - AOVT myself (I've got a photo I took along the flightline, whilst leaning out the fuselage-door; somewhere)

Last time I went (I took my Son) & both He & I walked around inside the BOAC Vickers-VC.10 = my Son remarking on how incredibly tall the T-shaped tail is; especially from the ground......!!!!!

[tank nut]

Hey hornchruch, you ever see a vulcan fly around when they were still in service? I bet that would have been a sight to see!!

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by tank nut

Hey hornchruch, you ever see a vulcan fly around when they were still in service?

I bet that would have been a sight to see!!

All the time Dave, all the time mate - lost count of the amount of pictures of XH.558 that I took.

For you guys Stateside who aren't aware - XH.558 has been refurbished, at a cost of £6 million pounds ($12 mil USD) back to flying/airworthy status.........

Trouble is - some of the potential sponsors are very slow in fronting up the money to KEEP her in the air (where she belongs)

It's a BIG 'bone of contention' right now; esp' with a/c enthusiasts - who EXPECT to see her flying this summer........('08)

She took to the air again (1st time since 1993) in mid-October, (just gone) after EXTENSIVE engineering.........

this "You Tube" video is probably the best one around = BUT; DO LET IT "STREAM" 1st (allow the 'Red'-bar to 'advance')


YouTube - Vulcan XH558 first post-restoration flight

(I had to post THIS link, as a 'second-option', as the 1st wasn't working.......


this link is more 'sterile' & 'official' = there are other more 'home-spun' versions that are (prob') better



Loads more "You Tube" links to XH.558 once you visit - as she's SUCH a big-deal, over here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy........