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Glass Wall a Duxford IMW

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:57:12 -0700

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Description: The wall shows all the USAAF aircraft that were lost during WWII, flying from the UK

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Glass Wall a Duxford IMW

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:57:12 -0700

by: Matzos

Description: The wall shows all the USAAF aircraft that were lost during WWII, flying from the UK

German W

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:57:12 -0700

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V1 Rocket

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:53:46 -0700

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SA 8

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:53:43 -0700

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A TA-4SU from Singapore

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:41 -0700

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Mig 29

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:41 -0700

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French Mirage 2000C

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:04 -0700

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Mi-24V1 of the Czech Repu

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:04 -0700

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F-5E Tiger IIs

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:03 -0700

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Description: The first of thirty two F-5E Tiger IIs have arrived in service with the United States Armed Forces, they are ex-Swiss air force, joining the ranks of the reservists in VFC-13 "Saints" and VMFT-401"Snipers" with the USMC at Yuma in Arizona.

F-5E Tiger IIs

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:03 -0700

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German Tornado of Marinef

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:03 -0700

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German Tornado of Marinef

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:03 -0700

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French Photo Recce Jaguar

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:02 -0700

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French Jagua

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:02 -0700

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Tornado on reheat at take

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:02 -0700

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RAF Jaguar GR.3A 41sqn

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:52 -0700

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Mirage III Swiss

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:52 -0700

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MM7149 AMX Italy

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:51 -0700

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German Tornado AG-51 Tige

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:50 -0700

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Alpha Jet Portugal

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:49 -0700

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Belgium F-16AM Photo rec

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:49 -0700

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Mk XIV Spitfire

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:48 -0700

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Photo Reconnaissance Spit

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:48 -0700

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Photo Reconnaissance Spit

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:47 -0700

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RAF "Display" Hawk

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:22:21 -0700

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RAF Tyhoon on take-off

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:22:20 -0700

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Royal Navy Sea Harrier

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:22:19 -0700

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Description: I took this over the Med in the 1980's

RAF Hunters - 1960's

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:16:08 -0700

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RAF Harrier on take off

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:16:08 -0700

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Spitfire PR XIX

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:07:52 -0700

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Description: Photo reconnaisance version of the Spitfire. The last operational sortie this version undertook was in 1954. The last time this aircraft flow was 1963 when it was in trails with an RAF Lightning jet figther!

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Spitfire Mk II

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:05:26 -0700

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RAF Tristar

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:04:52 -0700

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RAF Hawk

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:04:27 -0700

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Description: All training aircraft in the RAF are painted black

RAF Sea King

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:03:44 -0700

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RAF C17

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:03:17 -0700

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Description: Only 4 in service in the RAF

RAF C130

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:02:48 -0700

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RAF Nimrod

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:02:32 -0700

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RAF Jaguar

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:02:14 -0700

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RAF Chinook

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:01:50 -0700

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RAF Tornado

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:01:27 -0700

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RAF Sentry AEW1

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:01:11 -0700

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RAF Harrier GR7

Matzos — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:00:39 -0700

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TSR 2

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:28:22 -0700

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Description: The British Aircraft Corporation's TSR-2 was an ill-fated cold war project in the early 1960s to create what would, at that time, have been one of the most advanced aircraft in the world, with supercruise ability, and similar thrust and Mach 2+ performance to the Rockwell B-1A and significantly higher performance than the current Boeing IDS B-1B Project cancellation The American team behind the General Dynamics F-111 project had been pressing their case and newspaper reports had suggested that the RAF were considering it. In response to suggestions of cancellation, BAC employee's had held a protest march. The new Labour (and suposedly pro-worker) government, which had come into power in 1964, issued strong denials. In the budget speech of April 6, 1965, the cancellation in favour of the F-111 was announced. A week later the Chancellor defended the decision in a debate in the House of Commons, saying that the F-111 would prove to be cheaper. The TSR-2 tooling and partially completed aircraft were scrapped. The two finished aircraft survived, though with substantial internal damage inflicted, and can be seen in the RAF Museum at Cosford, and the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. A number of unfinished airframes were hastily scrapped, with very few parts retained intact. The only airframe to ever fly, XR219, was taken to Shoeburyness and used for as a target to test the vulnerability of a modern airframe and systems to gunfire. The haste with which the project was scrapped has been the source of much argument and bitterness since - some feel it was done with vindictiveness to score political points, though others have suggested that it was simply to prevent the very high technology secrets falling into the wrong hands, as the cancellation came at a period of particular paranoia during the cold war. Instead of the TSR-2, the RAF decided it would buy the swing-wing American General Dynamics F-111 - however, the F-111 itself suffered such enormous cost escalation (exceeding that of the TSR-2 projection ) that the RAF eventually cancelled their order, procuring instead the F-4 Phantom II and the Blackburn Buccaneer, some of which were transferred from the Royal Navy. Ironically, this was the very same aircraft that the RAF chose to deride in order to get the TSR-2 the go-ahead. Fortunately, the Buccaneer proved very capable and was still in service into the early 1990s. The TSR-2 nonetheless remains a lingering 'what if?' of British aviation, as painful in Britain as the Avro Arrow in Canada

31 Squadron RAF

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:29:39 -0700

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13 Squadron RAF

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:29:16 -0700

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9 Squadron RAF

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:28:49 -0700

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II(AC) Squadron RAF

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:28:17 -0700

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RAF 13 Sqn Tornado

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:27:18 -0700

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Description: 13 Squadron tornado carrying the latest digital reconnaiance pod

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13 Sqn RAF Tornado GR4

Matzos — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:25:54 -0700

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