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2021-08-24 01:01
in England2021, Flying, Nflying
As part of my trip through the UK, I went to visit the best flight/plane museums, and the RAF one north of london was the easiest one to get to first. What I have now seen is:
London Science Museum's Airplane Section
RAF Museum North of London (this one)
RAF Museum in Cosford (30mn from Birmingham and Stafford)
Imperial War Museum in Duxford
During my last visit, I got to see the airplane section of the science museum in london, and that was quite good already. This was obviously bigger though; a very decent collection which is easily worth 4H at least:
the harrier engines were amazing
that was a close parking job :)
it is a beautiful plane, reminds me of the US B1 bombers a bit
the British invented a lot of things, including ejection seats, including 0/0 rocket powered ones
these missiles had rotating gears to stabilize them in flight
no elevator needed when you have a full moving tail
it's been weird to see all those UK planes with what looks like french flags on them
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