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1853 Cayley Governable Parachute BAPC89
The glider flew 50 years before the Wright Brothers' first powered flight in 1903 |
1903 Wright Brothers Flyer
- the world's first aeroplane |
1916 SE5a Fighter flown in WW1 as the fastest aircraft in service at the time |
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1952 Handley Page Victor Tanker
which flew in the Falklands War |
1949 Fairey Gannet with double wing-fold
to enable it to be stored below decks |
1967 Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Maritime Reconnaisance Aircraft |
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Seawolf and anti-aircraft missile
flown in the Falklands War |
1940 Rolls Royce Merlin engine for the Halifax, Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster and Defiant |
The original control tower used by
RAF Bomber Command at Elvington |
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| The Crew of 'Friday the 13th' Halifax Bomber led by Flight Officer Cliff R R Smith of 158 Squadron |
'Friday the 13th', so named by FO Smith when the aircraft arrived because there had been
a succession of losses of previous Halifax Bombers - the aircraft flew 128 missions from 30th March 1944 without being shot down |
Strange man standing next to a Halifax Bomber wheel to give a perspective of size |
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77 Squadron setting off on a raid to Berlin
from RAF Elvington in 1943 |
1943 Gloster Meteor F8 flown during the end of WW2 and in the Cold War |
1964 Dassault Mirage IVA, a part of France's nuclear deterrent force brought to the Yorkshire Air
Museum as the French Air Force had two bomber squadrons based there in WW2 |
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| An aircraft plant trough outside Bomber Command |
90cm searchlight projector |
A well-known part of a famous speech given by Winston Churchill on 20th August 1940 after the success of the Battle of Britain |
