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RAF E6938 - Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe - Royal Air Force
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa
built in 1918
British single-seater fighter aircraft designed by the
Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War - Flown by the British, Canadian and Australian air forces - last British fighter to enter service during the war, it was the most powerful and advanced of the Sopwith rotary-engine aircraft
The WW.II Watch Office/Control Tower at the former RAF Swinderby 9 miles SW of Lincoln a photo taken in 2005, this and the hangar behind as well as all airfield structures were demolished in 2009-2010. The old airfield then became a quarry for gravel extraction with a new housing estate and business park (after more demolition) on the former domestic site. RAF Swinderby opened in 1940 closing in 1993 and sold off in 1995, another significant 'Bomber County' airfield sadly into history.
RAF Stenigot was a Second World War radar station situated at Stenigot, near Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire.
It was part of the Chain Home radar network, intended to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte V and the northern elements of Luftflotte II along the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingham and the central midlands.[1]
After the Second World War, the site was retained as part of the Chain Home network. In 1959 it was upgraded to a communications relay site as part of the ACE High program, which involved adding four tropospheric scatter dishes.[2]
The site was decommissioned in the late 1980s and was mostly demolished by 1996.
The radar tower is a Grade II listed structure and is now used by the RAF Aerial Erector School for selection tests for possible recruits.
There is a Memorial at the top to a former RAF Aerial Erector.
This RAF Lossiemouth based 6 Sqn Centenary painted Typhoon is performing a low pass over runway 05 at RAF Lossiemouth.
RAF Tornado GR1
ZA465 'FF'
12 Squadron "Foxes"
RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, UK
Duxford Air Museum, Cambridgeshire, UK
RAF, 51Sqn.
Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint
ex USAF 64-14838, started out life in '64 as a KC-135A, converted to an KC-135R in 1993 and delivered to the RAF in 2015 after conversion to an RC-135W by L-3 Communications (see comments below).
A Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 aircraft at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
The annual show is the biggest of it's kind in Europe and showcases many different aircraft types past and present from a wide variety of Air Forces and private owners. Highlights of this years show included two special flypasts from the Red Arrows with the brand new British Airways A380 passenger aircraft on the Saturday and the new Boeing Atlas A400M on the Sunday.
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Photographer: Senior Aircraftsman Daniel Herrick LBIPP
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