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Title: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: carojon on July 30, 2022, 09:29:10 AM

Earlier this month I got to visit RAF Cosford which is, with Hendon, part of the RAF Museums and hold a very interesting collection of aircraft, and military vehicles covering both world wars and the Cold War era.

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Having visited Hendon several times, Cosford made for an interesting and personally evocative visit, holding many types within its collection that compliments the former museum.

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If you would like to know more then just follow the link to JJ's

https://jjwargames.blogspot.com/2022/07/royal-air-force-museum-midlands-raf.html

JJ

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: BeneathALeadMountain on July 30, 2022, 08:22:37 PM

Thank you for that JJ, a very interesting and thorough post about an amazing museum with some excellent aircraft. My brother flew in Nimrods (accordingly more like falling in style) until decommissioned but my personal favourites have to be the pup, 1 1/2 strutter and the Brisfit.

Thank you for posting,
Andrew
BALM

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: Blackwolf on July 30, 2022, 10:15:44 PM

Lovely! The Defiant is a handsome  ‘plane in the flesh :)

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: carojon on July 31, 2022, 09:46:11 AM

Hi Chaps,
Thanks for your comments and glad you enjoyed the read.

Cheers
JJ

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: AKULA on July 31, 2022, 12:42:57 PM

Thanks for posting JJ - a good read, and some eye candy in those photos  :)

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: carojon on August 01, 2022, 09:14:18 AM

Thank you, and glad you enjoyed the read.

JJ

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: SpaceCudet on August 01, 2022, 10:57:45 AM

Great write up - as a cadet I did my glider training at Cosford as well as various wing events so have many happy memories of the place. 

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: Oldgamer on August 01, 2022, 11:00:58 AM

I did my RAF trade training at Cosford, on slack days we were sent to the museum to polish all the shinier aircraft, nobody ever wanted to go near the Lincoln as it was rumoured to be haunted!

Title: Re: Royal Air Force Museum (Midlands) RAF Cosford
Post by: Mindenbrush on August 01, 2022, 10:45:21 PM

I might get there on my next trip home as my son did his training at Cosford and it looks like he is going to be a lifer with 23 years in already.

I worked on the ill-fated Nimrod MR4A at Cobhams, Bournemouth Airport in 1999/2000. It was destined to fail from the very beginning. BAE Systems ran the project very badly, the 3 fuselages supplied by the RAF were so badly corroded it was almost like a complete rebuild plus when you try to mate computer designed wing to a hand built fuselage it is going to require a lot of work.
Pity as it’s performance and flying capabilities out perform the current Boeing P8 Poseidon.