Monday, 13 February 2012

Royal Air Force Museum

Last Sunday, Mordu and I looked around for a short daytime adventure and discovered that we live 3 miles from the RAF Museum. We walked over which gave us a chance to see some parts of the city we might not have otherwise. Here are some pictures from the museum:


A reconnaissance bomber plane with a sky blue under-belly:

Two "boat planes":


Planes with fierce names like "vampire":

And less fierce names like "chipmunk":

Planes with various animals painted on them like this one with a kangaroo:

And this painting on the nose of a B-24 bomber:

And this one:

Maybe we should fly the planes?


We also saw various models of ejection seats:

And walked through a Short Sunderland of the kind flown during WWII and the Battle of Britain:




We saw an autogyro helicopter (click on the picture of the sign to enlarge it if you want to read the text):



And various squadron badges:

Including this one used by the US Navy, which Mordu particularly liked:

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