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Fairey RB.192 (Model)

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 82/M/1560

Swept wing jet aircraft painted overall silver with RAF roundels on wings and fuselage.

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Vickers Swallow

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 76/M/869

Model of Vickers Swallow, a project headed by Barnes Wallis to develop a supersonic, wing-controlled aerodyne, with intention for use as a long-distance airliner as well as a potential successor to the subsonic V-bombers.

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Sopwith Pup

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1916-1918, Cosford, Hangar Two, 82/A/1067

The Pup, thought of by its pilots as the perfect flying machine, was used extensively by the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps both at home and abroad. The first Pups reached the Western Front in the autumn of 1916 allowing the enthusiastic British pilots to maintain their hard won domination until mid-1917 when newer German aircraft redressed the balance.

Bi-plane fighter with light undersides and darker green camouflage above, © RAF Museum / Iain Duncan / (c) RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan

Fellowship of the Bellows

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 1995/0539/U

The Fellowship of the Bellows was a fundraising organisation originating in Argentina in 1940 to collect money to purchase additional aircraft for the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

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Sepecat Jaguar ACT Demonstrator

Aircraft & Exhibits, JUN 1975-JUN 1996, Cosford, Hangar Two, 1996/0168/A

The Active Control Technology (ACT) Jaguar was an analogue airframe modified to be less stable and fitted with fly-by-wire computer technology for trials work. Lessons learned from these trials was used in later aircraft like the EAP and Eurofighter Typhoon. No modern fighter jet today could fly without the use of computers.

SEPECAT Jaguar ACT Demonstrator on display at Cosford, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Programme

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, X005-5992

The British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP) was an advanced technology demonstrator. Originally a tri-national undertaking, British Aerospace, with help from Italian and German suppliers, completed the project independently after the German and Italian Governments withdrew.

Cranked delta wing jet aircraft, © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

British Aerospace Skyflash

Aircraft & Exhibits, 27 MAR 1980, Cosford, Hangar Two, X003-6761

The Skyflash was a was a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile.

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Fairey Delta 2

Aircraft & Exhibits, FEB 1956-SEP 1967, Cosford, Hangar Two, 85/A/10

In the late 1940s Britain was trailing far behind in supersonic aircraft design. To try to retrieve matters the Ministry of Supply issued a specification for a supersonic research aircraft, and Fairey set about meeting this with a delta-winged aircraft designed for investigation into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds.

Fairey FD2 on display at RAFM Cosford., © RAF Museum/Iain Duncan

Bristol M.1c

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1917-1918, Cosford, Hangar Two, 1988/0209/A

The Bristol M.1C was the first British monoplane of the First World War. However, owing to an institutional distrust of monoplanes in the Royal Flying Corps, only 125 Bristol M.1C airframes were ordered.

Single-seat rotary engined monoplane scout with distinctive red dragon insignia on the fuselage. Reproduction using original, © RAF Museum / Iain Duncan

Fairey Separation Test Vehicle

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, 1987/0062/O

The Fairey STV was developed in 1950 to test solid booster separation mechanisms for the Fairey Fireflash air-to air guided missile.

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