Aeronautica

The last of the true interceptors - the BAC Lightning F.6

The Midland Air Museum, Coventry has preserved an example of the F.6 version of the BAC (formerly, English Electric Co Ltd) Lightning. Even today the aircraft looks 'modern', with its highly swept wings and angular lines. The last of the RAF's interceptors, and a classic jet fighter. Please note that the 'thumbnail' photograph shown here is of a preserved Lightning F.1, on display at the RAF Museum, Cosford, as part of the National Cold War Exhibition.

A vision in silver - the Auster Autocrat

The Auster Autocrat was a most significant, British-built, post-War light aircraft. Indeed, it has been described as 'the epitome of a gentleman's aerial carriage'. Here we see an very early example (1946), still active from the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield.

 

'A ‘bigger bang’ – the 22,000 lb MC ‘Grand Slam’ bomb'

 

The 22,000lb MC, "Grand Slam' bomb shown here, on its custom-built trailer, is on display at Brooklands Museum, site of a former Vickers Ltd facility.

 

 

 

 

The Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus, and the first 'fighting squadron', RFC

 

This flying replica of a Vickers F.B.5 'Gunbus' is on display in the Grahame White Factory at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London

The WW2 Shadow Factory scheme and the Ford-built Merlin engine

Here we see the very last Ford-built Merlin 24, in its assembly jig. Rebuilt by Ford apprentices, it is shown on display at the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester.

How do you build a WW2 icon? Use jigs and fixtures!

 

Jigs bought by The People's Mosquito being unloaded at the works of Retrotec Ltd, from the container which had been shipped 13,000 miles from New Zealand.

 

 

The wing for Mosquito FB.VI, PZ474 (now flying in the U.S.A.) being constructed on the jig which is now with Retrotec Ltd, in the U.K.

 

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