Maximowitz
Tech Sergeant
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A Pictorial Tour of RAF Museum, Cosford.
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brucejscott
Staff Sergeant
Great shots Terry. Looks like you had fun. Thanks for posting them.
Good shots Terry! Keep them coming.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Superb pictures and subjects Terry, keep'em coming.
Hotntot
Senior Airman
Great pix.
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Benevolens Magister
Thanks chaps, good to know you're enjoying the pics.
Continuing with the last batch from the 'Warplanes' exhibits, and I must apologise; I was standing right next to the Ohka, Storch and the new addition, the Harrier GR9, getting detail shots of the latter, and forgot to take full pics of them all! This was due to talking to Ian, my Museum Guide, and discussing the stupidity of the Ministry of Clowns ... er, sorry, our Government!
However, Karl (Rochie) has come to the rescue, and sent me the pics he took of the Ohka and Storch.
So, on to the final pics in this hangar, including the extremely rare Spitfire Mk1.
PICS 1 to 4. Spitfire Mk1, serial No. K9942. This was Number 156 of the first production batch of 174 Mark 1's, making its first flight on 21 April, 1939, before going to 72 Squadron, in who's pre-war codes and markings it is displayed. This aircraft was regularly flown by F.O. James B Nicolson, who went on to win Fighter Command's only VC of the war, flying a Hurricane during the BoB.
Note the early, un-armoured windscreen, 'flat' canopy, and 'pole'-type aerial mast.
PIC 5. Me163B-1a 'Komet'.
PIC 6. The 'Komet's' powerful armament, MK108 cannons.
PICS 7 and 8. Yokosuka MXY7 'Ohka' - pics by Karl.
PICS 9 and 10. Fiesler Storch, (pics by Karl) captured at Flensburgh, Germany, and at one time flown by Erich 'Winkle' Brown.
This was stored after a number of years use, before undergoing a full restoration. The wheels look suspiciously like those from a Spitfire!
Lots more to come yet, with the next section covering the rare prototypes and experimental aircraft.
Continuing with the last batch from the 'Warplanes' exhibits, and I must apologise; I was standing right next to the Ohka, Storch and the new addition, the Harrier GR9, getting detail shots of the latter, and forgot to take full pics of them all! This was due to talking to Ian, my Museum Guide, and discussing the stupidity of the Ministry of Clowns ... er, sorry, our Government!
However, Karl (Rochie) has come to the rescue, and sent me the pics he took of the Ohka and Storch.
So, on to the final pics in this hangar, including the extremely rare Spitfire Mk1.
PICS 1 to 4. Spitfire Mk1, serial No. K9942. This was Number 156 of the first production batch of 174 Mark 1's, making its first flight on 21 April, 1939, before going to 72 Squadron, in who's pre-war codes and markings it is displayed. This aircraft was regularly flown by F.O. James B Nicolson, who went on to win Fighter Command's only VC of the war, flying a Hurricane during the BoB.
Note the early, un-armoured windscreen, 'flat' canopy, and 'pole'-type aerial mast.
PIC 5. Me163B-1a 'Komet'.
PIC 6. The 'Komet's' powerful armament, MK108 cannons.
PICS 7 and 8. Yokosuka MXY7 'Ohka' - pics by Karl.
PICS 9 and 10. Fiesler Storch, (pics by Karl) captured at Flensburgh, Germany, and at one time flown by Erich 'Winkle' Brown.
This was stored after a number of years use, before undergoing a full restoration. The wheels look suspiciously like those from a Spitfire!
Lots more to come yet, with the next section covering the rare prototypes and experimental aircraft.
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Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Very nicely done Terry and thank Karl for us to sir. Do you happen to know how many Ohka are left? I thought there was only one but I may be wrong because the Smithsonian has one to. And being that I am not very well versed in the Spitfire, is that a Mk I or Mk II?
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Benevolens Magister
Thanks Aaron. As far as I know, there are certainly two Ohka, and I think another in the UK maybe. The Spit is an early Mk1, the oldest surviving example, as described in the text.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
I should have read more thoroughly, sorry, and thank you Terry.
More good shots Terry!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Great pics guys. Terry, how is the museum funded if admission is free?
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Benevolens Magister
Thanks chaps.
Andy, this, and the RAF Museum, Hendon, are classed as 'National Museums', as are places like the National Gallery, British Museum, etc. The last bunch of f***wits in charge .... oh, sorry, the last Government, did at least one thing right, decreeing that these should be free to enter.
However, some funding has come from the National Heritage Fund, and Lottery grants, and most of the work (in restoration etc) is done by volunteers, and, of course, the RAF apprentices, who have some jobs as part of their training. There are also many fund-raising schemes, and appeals, such as the one to recover and restore the Dornier Do17, which, we hope, will be covered by public subscription.
Hmm - public subscription in 1940, to help buy a Spitfire, and now, a similar scheme, to help keep the Spitfire - or its adversaries !!!
Andy, this, and the RAF Museum, Hendon, are classed as 'National Museums', as are places like the National Gallery, British Museum, etc. The last bunch of f***wits in charge .... oh, sorry, the last Government, did at least one thing right, decreeing that these should be free to enter.
However, some funding has come from the National Heritage Fund, and Lottery grants, and most of the work (in restoration etc) is done by volunteers, and, of course, the RAF apprentices, who have some jobs as part of their training. There are also many fund-raising schemes, and appeals, such as the one to recover and restore the Dornier Do17, which, we hope, will be covered by public subscription.
Hmm - public subscription in 1940, to help buy a Spitfire, and now, a similar scheme, to help keep the Spitfire - or its adversaries !!!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Good stuff Terry and Karl.
A4K
Colonel
Great pics Terry and Karl, thanks!
Do we know the origins of the Mustang pre restoration? 'Isobel III' (B6-V or poss. B , 44-13573) was the aircraft flown by F/L Jack Cleland (RNZAF) while on exchange with the 363rd FS, 357th FG. He is the only known New Zealand pilot to fly with the US 8th Air Force.
A photo exists of this aircraft after a later belly landing (under another pilot and coded F).
Jack Cleland
Do we know the origins of the Mustang pre restoration? 'Isobel III' (B6-V or poss. B , 44-13573) was the aircraft flown by F/L Jack Cleland (RNZAF) while on exchange with the 363rd FS, 357th FG. He is the only known New Zealand pilot to fly with the US 8th Air Force.
A photo exists of this aircraft after a later belly landing (under another pilot and coded F).
Jack Cleland
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T Bolt
Colonel
Very cool to see such an early Mk.I Spit still around in such good shape.
Keep the pictures coming!
Keep the pictures coming!
A4K
Colonel
Beauty, thanks Karl! (and we clashed posts - was looking up more on his aircraft as you replied 
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That link also covers why that choice of markings, which would have been my next question
)That link also covers why that choice of markings, which would have been my next question
T Bolt
Colonel
There is one in The Air Force Muerum, but it's actually a trainer with a landing skid. I know there was one at the Victory Air Museum back in the mid 1970s but I don't know what happened to it. See here, 5th picture down. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/warbird-displays/victory-air-museum-mundelein-il-1974-a-24951.html
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Benevolens Magister
Thanks guys, and thanks Karl - saved me going to the museum web-site!
More to follow later tonight.
More to follow later tonight.
A4K
Colonel
Looking forward to it Terry!
