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de Havilland Vampire FB.5/9 'Special Schemes'
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The de Havilland Vampire was a British jet fighter developed during WWII. It was the second jet, after the Gloster Meteor, operated by the RAF. It replaced wartime piston-engine fighters and was in front-line service until 1953.
The Vampire Mk.5, which flew in June 1948, was a fighter-bomber modified from a Vampire F.3 fighter, while the Vampire FB Mk.9 was a tro...
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RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 1960s. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
RAF Waddington began as a training base for the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. Between this time and 1919, the station was home to a number of squadrons both under RFC, and later, RAF control. Nos. 82, 97, 105, 117 and 123 Squadrons RFC between 1917 and 1918, and Nos. 23, 203 and 204 Squadrons RAF throughout 1919 were based at Wad...
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RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 2000-2021- Main runway- blurred. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
RAF Scampton's location can trace its ancestry back to the Great War when, named Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, it served as a landing field for the Royal Flying Corps. From here operated No. 3 Squadron 'A' Flight equipped with the Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b albeit briefly in the anti-Zeppelin ...
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RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 2000-2021. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
RAF Scampton's location can trace its ancestry back to the Great War when, named Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, it served as a landing field for the Royal Flying Corps. From here operated No. 3 Squadron 'A' Flight equipped with the Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b albeit briefly in the anti-Zeppelin role. This unit was fo...
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RAF Coltishall, Norfolk, United Kingdom, 1950's-1970's. 438mm(W) x 225mm(H) 17 inches x 9 inches(H)
Scottow Aerodrome was built in 1939. Renamed Coltishall, it was activated in May 1940 and one of the first units to operate from the station was No. 242 Squadron flying the Hawker Hurricane and led by Douglas Bader. 242 Squadron left for RAF Duxford shortly afterwards. The station became a night fighter base for most of the r...
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RAF Wildenrath, West Germany, 1967. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
Construction of RAF Wildenrath began in 1950, with the station coming onto 'active' status in 1952. It was the first of four 'clutch' bases operated by the RAF in West Germany; the others being Geilenkirchen, Bruggen and Laarbruch.
From 1953, the first units to operate from Wildenrath were Nos. 67 and 71 Squadrons flying North-American F-86E ...
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1st Strategic Air Depot, USAAF, (RAF Honington) Suffolk, England, 1942-46. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
Honington was established in 1937 as a Royal Air Force base operating under RAF Bomber Command. It was passed over to the USAAF in June 1942 as Station 375. Stationed at the base were the 383rd, 384th and 385th Fighter Squadrons of the 364th Fighter Group, which arrived in early 1944 operating P-51 Mustangs...
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RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, 2005-2021. 225mm(W) x 225mm(H) 9inches(W) x 9inches(H)
RAF Coningsby was built in the late 1930's and after officially opening in November 1940, became operational in February 1941. No. 106 Squadron was the first unit to begin offensive operations from the base flying Handley Page Hampden's. A second unit, No. 97 Squadron, arrived in April equipped with Avro Manchester's, and in ...
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