Midland Air Museum - 56k warning
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Midland Air Museum - 56k warning
For a rare couple of hours the sun shone in the Midlands and it was quite warm (dont worry its clouded over now and I dare say it'll rain tonight), so I decided to pay another visit to MAM at Coventry Airport:
Shar Mk2 apparently being reconstructed in this hangar
Raspberry ripple flavour Hunter
Something Rick must be familiar with by now!
One of two Lightnings on site
Interesting to see whats actually inside a radome, which incidentally seemed to be made from wood!
Here you can see the bevel gears which allow the radar to pivot left and right
Another nice shiny Hunter
And a similarly smart Sea Hawk
One for Leif...
This poor thing was so ugly it flew because the earth repelled it
And another for Leif
One of a number of Tom's machines I saw moving about today - sorry for the poor quality, there were two fences inbetween myself and the Rapide!
Shar Mk2 apparently being reconstructed in this hangar
Raspberry ripple flavour Hunter
Something Rick must be familiar with by now!
One of two Lightnings on site
Interesting to see whats actually inside a radome, which incidentally seemed to be made from wood!
Here you can see the bevel gears which allow the radar to pivot left and right
Another nice shiny Hunter
And a similarly smart Sea Hawk
One for Leif...
This poor thing was so ugly it flew because the earth repelled it
And another for Leif
One of a number of Tom's machines I saw moving about today - sorry for the poor quality, there were two fences inbetween myself and the Rapide!
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Toby,
Nice to see that SHAR in good shape though, but it would look better, and make more sense, flying off the deck of the Invincible!
Ah right, that explains it. Could that 'small helicopter' be a Kaman Huskie? The USAF air crash rescue chopper they had based at most USAF bases in the '70s/'80s. I ask because I was at the Museum when they had one delivered, apparently it was for FREE too! It wasn't in all that good shape, broken canopy, dings and dents all over it, but all the bits were there.TobyV wrote:Its the green hangar right down the other end of site (north/east end). Previously they had one or two things that they were working on in there including a Vampire and a rather unusual small helicopter I think.
Nice to see that SHAR in good shape though, but it would look better, and make more sense, flying off the deck of the Invincible!
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That could be. I dont know much about Helicopters and I dont remember recognising what it was. I was somewhat perplexed as to what had happend to all the various craft that were in there previously. It looks as if they have had a tidy up of the stuff around hte side of hangar as theres only the remains of the Phantom and most parts ofa twin seat vampire under a tarpaulin.