Today I visited - for the first time in 15+ years - Newark Air Museum. This is a lovely museum with a great collection of mostly British Cold War aircraft. The scary thing is that I can remember most of these being in service! Recommended as a great day out. Thanks again to Diego and Martin for their company.
Above - Sea Vixen and Blackburn Buccaneer.
The well looked-after Vulcan. Always great to see this.
Fairey Gannet.
Folland Gnat.
Gloster Javelin
Model of a Canberra complete with Suez stripes.
Rare foreigner - a T-33.
Bloodhound missile.
Lovely Dassault Mystere IV.
Radar for the Bloodhound
EE Lightning. Fabulous!
Vulcan again
A modified Canberra looking very sinister in overall black.
Saab Viggen.
Sea Hawk
Tatty ex-Polish MiG-23
Shackleton. Still in service in the’70s.
F-100 Super Sabre.
Lovely to see Supermarine Swift (left) and Hawker Hunter side by side.
Swift
Beautiful Saab Draken. One of my favourites but then I’ve had three slightly slower Saabs.
Sepcat Jaguar
Hunter
4 comments:
As you say, this is like 1:1 scale collection of all the jet aircraft Airfix kits or toys of recent or in service aircraft that we knew or looked at in kit catalogues.
That was a great day out and a fabulous collection of aircraft.
A shame not to see a small dog with the Bloodhound.
You must have been in geek heaven with all that Cold War AirPower on display
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