Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:22 pmJust got back from England, where I took these pics of some planes, at the RAF museum at Cosford, which is a bit NW of Birmingham. There are tons of amazing aircraft there, many of which you are so close to that you can't really photograph them, like a York, Belfast, Vulcan, Victor, Valiant, Argosy, Comet 1, Lincoln bomber.
I've always liked Britannias, since I used to see them at Bimingham Airport as a kid, and I dabble with a free one available for FSX. The Neptune is just very cool-looking to me, and the ME-410 Hornet is the only one remaining in the world. I didn't know that it had rearward-firing remotely-controlled heavy machine guns in barbettes on each side of the fuselage but it does. How cool is that (unless you're actually trying to shoot one down from behind)?
They also have the world's only surviving Mitsubishi KI-46 Dinah, which I stupidly didn't photograph. It was one of the finest recon aircraft of WW2.
Well worth a visit if you're in the area
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Dave.
I've always liked Britannias, since I used to see them at Bimingham Airport as a kid, and I dabble with a free one available for FSX. The Neptune is just very cool-looking to me, and the ME-410 Hornet is the only one remaining in the world. I didn't know that it had rearward-firing remotely-controlled heavy machine guns in barbettes on each side of the fuselage but it does. How cool is that (unless you're actually trying to shoot one down from behind)?
They also have the world's only surviving Mitsubishi KI-46 Dinah, which I stupidly didn't photograph. It was one of the finest recon aircraft of WW2.
Well worth a visit if you're in the area
.Dave.
What a place Dave...makes wigram look a bit sad. Great post thanks very much.