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Nightmare remedies!

Posted by Tony C on Wed Nov 26, 2003 01:51:10 PM

Following my recent nightmare, I was advised by Dr Olrog to make regular visits to Aviation Museums.

Being a good boy and always doing as I am told, I visited Cosford on 23rd and Duxford on the 24th November and the results of these visits, can be seen at...

http://community.webshots.com/user/avro683

Mind you, during my Cosford visit, I took over 160 pictures with my digital camera but due to a bad case of hand shake, only 60 are acceptable. This made me bloody annoyed on Sunday evening and regretfully, I will have to go back to re-take more pictures.

At Cosford and as reported there has been a lot of movements since my last visit.

The Argosy is now on the airside of the airfield, the Meteor NF14 is missing (apparently stored) and Vulcan XM598 is looking good after is repaint (lets hope that this is not just superficial).

Missing airframes include the P-47, Spitfire 16 (apparently dismantled and stored, pending a decision on its future??), Ki100, ME262 and Buccaneer.

New exhibits include Spitfire Mk.I (K9942), P-51D (Isobel III) and a Tornado.

While looking at the Me410, I noticed that the main wheels were leaning inward at the top, as if the axles had broken. I have never noticed this before and was wondering if this is normal? Any clues?

The visit to Duxford result in 97 images but again due to hand shake (anger levels nearly reached boiling point), only 55 are useable. I can only guess that the hand shaking, is a result of over-excitement, as this has never happened before and I am going to have to make another visit (02/12/03) to see if the shakes have gone!

In Hanger 2, the Sea Fury is moving on and looks great while P-51C doesn't appear to have moved on much since September (at least to my untrained eye but I think that the internals are being worked on) while in Hanger 5, the CF-100 (looks great), Jaguar, Buccaneer (now almost totally stripped of paint), Spitfire 24, Rapide and Swordfish (including wings) among others are all being worked on.

Anyway enjoy the pictures, Tony

Webshots Cosford & Duxford albums

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