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Handley Page Hastings T.5
Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1948-AUG 1977, Cosford, Hangar Four, 85/A/9
The Handley Page Hastings replaced the Avro York as the Royal Air Force’s standard long-range transport from 1948. Two squadrons of the new aircraft served alongside the Avro York throughout the Berlin Airlift, flying vital supplies into the city during the Soviet blockade.
Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan B.2 XL318
Aircraft & Exhibits, 1961-1981, London, Hangar Five, 82/A/393
The Vulcan was the second of the Royal Air Force’s ‘V bombers’ and like the Valiant and Victor provided part of Great Britain’s nuclear deterrent force for 15 years until the Royal Navy’s Polaris submarines took over the the deterrence role in 1969.
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