Well that was interesting, many names brought back memories. First I was stationed for a while at Cosford, coldest camp I was ever on. My father had spent time there in the war. Later he was invalided out of the forces and worked on De Haverland's Mosquitos. After the war he and I were in the Royal Observer Corp in the fifties so my knowledge of different planes goes back a long way. Wish I could go to see the museum as I could go round on my mobility scooter, what a distance to walk. Have continued my interest in planes and see a lot on RUclips these days. Sometime the Beluga goes over my house in Devon. Thank you for your visit an video.
Thank you for sharing this fascinating tour. Nice to see the Kestrel of the tripartite evaluation squadron there. An often forgotten aircraft in the P1127/Harrier story and incidentally the first aircraft the full Hawker Siddeley title.
Thank you for the tour. Brought back happy memories of when I worked there as a student, some 40 odd years ago. My, has it changed so much! Far more exhibits there now.
The Blenheim/Bolingbroke is one of several aircraft sent up from Hendon so obviously not been re erected yet. A lot of the Hendon aircraft were stripped down and checked for corrosion I believe
I read that the test flight hangar was going to be closed but I didn't think some of the war in the air aircraft would be moved in there. I'm shocked tbh. I guess it's no longer a test flight hangar. There going to have to move a lot more exhibits though to make room for that wellington for may
Great video excellent museum, some great historical aircraft that saved this country and the world back in 1940, also how advanced Britain was in the 50s and 60s, with the TSR2 and the Vulcan and V force bombers. Thanks for sharing.
I went two week later and was told the first two hangers were been rearranged that was why there was a mixture of planes. I served at RAF Cosford back in 1971 and went back in 1978 as i was in communications, ah the good old days 😉
I read that the test flight hangar was going to be closed but I didn't think some of the war in the air aircraft would be moved in there. I'm shocked tbh. I guess it's no longer a test flight hangar. There going to have to move a lot more exhibits though to make room for that wellington for may
A superb collection of interesting aircraft and extremely nicely presented, really top quality. RAF still top notch, but needs to be bigger, all our forces need a lot more money spent and it’s a priority as we now see.
I haven’t been to RAF Cosford since the summer of 2021, it looks like they have added some brilliant stuff since I was there (mainly the chinook and harrier) so I’ll definitely have to go back there this summer…
If you go around the end of may early June you'll be in for a big surprise. The massive change in the war in the air and test flight hangar is ultimately making room for the completed Vickers Wellington which will be back on display when the new bomber command exhibition opens in may (also the reason the Blenheim/Bolingbroke is now at Cosford too)
Great! Thanks for showing this. Must be about 30 years ago since I was last there. Loved seeing the Fiesler Storch back then (still have the photo with daughter stood in front) because I had only ever seen that plane in Commando comics! 😂 [p.s., for those who don't know, Churchill liked it too and used a captured one.]
Cool upload, i had no idea about that Fairey Delta 2 until this video. I looked it up and to see just how important that thing was to aviation history was crazy. How i didn't know about it until now is insane.
Cosford used to house a dozen of Britain's prototype and development aircraft, like the Hawker P.105 + series, which bridged the gap between the Hawker Seahawk and the Hawker Hunter.
I'm wondering if they could track down a copy the RAF News from 1978 that did a centre feature of 2 Squadron RAF Laarbruch. Big ask I know. But my Brother, Graham Gill, an Aden Veteran, who was wounded in that conflict, got back to good health and continued his RAF carreer, served in 2 Squadron at Laarbruch. until he demobbed in 1980.
@reecemccarron9601. Many years ago I used to work at Cosford in the Museum Society and my main interest was the refurbishment of the PBY Catalina. At that time the aircraft was based inside that hanger due to the fact that the paint was unsuitable for it to be outside. Due to other commitments I was unable to continue working at the Museum. On my last visit, as a normal paying customer I noticed that the Cat had now been moved to its present position and I was aghast at the state the aircraft was then in, the grey paint was flaking off and the `day-glo` paint-work on the nose and wing floats was also missing in large patches. I noticed on your film that the Cat appeared to be in a very presentable show condition and was wanting to ask you if that was the actual case or was it still looking shabby?.
Never been to Cosford. I have Duxford, Shuttleworth and Hendon fairly close and visit often. Cosford is where they restore many classic aircraft? Love how they have posed the Lightning… in its usual ‘vertical’ flying position 😄
At approx 18 mins into video is RAF Devon VP952 in front is a picture of a Devon flying over Deptford power station VP958 my dads flying that, also flew over St Pauls and Tower Bridge on the same day 1957. Metropolitan Communication sqn Hendon remember the station closing and moving to Wildenrath. Still have his pilot log books
14:38 Polaris Penetration Aid Carrier!! The black conical thing is one of two nuclear warheads, the black and brown tubes are chaff launchers and the bay with the stainless steel tank contains various chemical batteries and I think the roll thruster which used Hydrazine as a propellant. We were told that 1 ppm was enough to kill you!! This was a British modification to the American Polaris missile that was intended to replace the third warhead the Americans had with equipment that made the two warheads look like about 50 warheads as it came over the horizon towards the enemy✅ Built by many company’s, but Sperry Gyroscope, Bracknell was the one I worked for. Test launches at Woomera in Australia. Thruster testing at RAF Westcott (PERME) north of Aylesbury. Lots of clever engineers involved✅ Lettuce Curtis used to walk through our offices with an air ministry briefcase chained to her wrist! The project was called”Chevaline”, and was stopped by Margaret Thatcher, because of cost overruns, and the impending purchase of Trident. Just the ramblings of an old man, but check Lettuce out, because she must have had a life and a half!! She flew Lancasters and Spitfires, so that’s already an enviable bucket list. Those were the days.
My father was stationed here for a bit during WW2 with either No. 1 or No.3 MU. [ maintenance unit] he said he saw a proto type Spit. crash there somewhere. Thoughts were, that after going into a vertical climb, the pilot ' blacked out' due to the G forces.
Very nice very rapid video. Speaking as an American, who defibitely does not have nearly as much familiarity with British aircraft sd would be nice; I hope you can go back another time with a slower pace and either accompanied by video of the identifying placards or narration, at least of the names and period they represent. Abd I would not bother with the display cases. As unfortunately they don’t show up well on video. Please excuse the typos, fat fingers get in the way.
On allmy trips to the uK I would hire a car , however due to the problems of trying to find a parking spot in LondonI, I decided to do all my travelling my train and mapped out times, places and touring to see as many museums as possible in the planed month I would be there. I had never been to Gosford Museum so included it in my touring around. As luck would have it the walk from the station to the museum was long and wet (drizzling rain) NO one bother to give me a lift. However the trip was certanly worth it.
Honestly it's better you go to Cosford, as it's an RAF airfield and houses a worthwhile museum. Gosford is a fictional country house, and might be frustrating by comparison. ;-) For Cosford, the mainline trains out of the West End stations go toward Birmingham, and one of the stops is Albrighton, from which station you can walk to RAF Cosford museum.
I remember my uncle being based at st athan during the 80s alot of the ww2 aircraft were stored there and I had the pleasure of seeing some of these aircraft being run up!! On an open day distinctly removed the fw190 and the owl
I visited St Athens in the late eighties, on a course, got to sit in those German aircraft, Me410, FW190, plus a Storch. in another Hangar they had all the Spitfire gate guardians that had been removed from various stations. Lots of which I had worked on during my time on BBMF in the 70's
Cosford is only up the road from me - It just needs some of the exhibits getting some much needed TLC. Not much has changed there over the years either.
Well it's a brilliant (and not display over-crowded) museum just an hour away from me so I'll be going along there this Summer and chipping in my voluntary £20:00 for the privilege. The V2 rocket system is particularly interesting as they used to (and since the re-modelling I hope they still do) have a lot of the ancillaries on display. IMO, Cosford's guided missile/rocket collection as a whole needs to be displayed more prominently as it's got some real 'jems' in there.
Hendon museum now shares the aircraft from Cosford, as that Me262, Me410 in this video and the two Japanese planes (a Ki45 and a Ki100 (unique in the world)) are now more often seen at Hendon than Cosford.
How would you like someone clambering on when you're 60, 70, 80 years old ?. And has was already said......certain persons will try to damage or steal parts.
Really good video mate looks amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video! Thinking of going there soon! Looks so good there
Well that was interesting, many names brought back memories. First I was stationed for a while at Cosford, coldest camp I was ever on. My father had spent time there in the war. Later he was invalided out of the forces and worked on De Haverland's Mosquitos. After the war he and I were in the Royal Observer Corp in the fifties so my knowledge of different planes goes back a long way. Wish I could go to see the museum as I could go round on my mobility scooter, what a distance to walk. Have continued my interest in planes and see a lot on RUclips these days. Sometime the Beluga goes over my house in Devon. Thank you for your visit an video.
Fantastic place commemorating military aircraft history.
I have been to this museum several times, it's good when thay the large model flying show
Thank you for sharing this fascinating tour. Nice to see the Kestrel of the tripartite evaluation squadron there. An often forgotten aircraft in the P1127/Harrier story and incidentally the first aircraft the full Hawker Siddeley title.
just came here today! It was amazing.Saw one of the europhighters!
Bravo November is looking beautiful. Cosford have done a lovely job there. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant video, thank you. M.
Great video mate! Good encouragement for me to go and visit there. Thanks
Any time!
Nice museum 👌 👏 greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 🛩
Thank you for the tour. Brought back happy memories of when I worked there as a student, some 40 odd years ago. My, has it changed so much! Far more exhibits there now.
Visiting the Royal Air Force museum at RAF Cosford
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It’s a great day out
Hopefully get there one day. Great video need to slow down a little.
The Blenheim/Bolingbroke is one of several aircraft sent up from Hendon so obviously not been re erected yet. A lot of the Hendon aircraft were stripped down and checked for corrosion I believe
I read that the test flight hangar was going to be closed but I didn't think some of the war in the air aircraft would be moved in there. I'm shocked tbh. I guess it's no longer a test flight hangar. There going to have to move a lot more exhibits though to make room for that wellington for may
Great video excellent museum, some great historical aircraft that saved this country and the world back in 1940, also how advanced Britain was in the 50s and 60s, with the TSR2 and the Vulcan and V force bombers. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely one of my favourite aviation museums
Did my apprenticeship at Cosford, great museum and free unlike the Royal Navy at Yeovilton!!
I went two week later and was told the first two hangers were been rearranged that was why there was a mixture of planes. I served at RAF Cosford back in 1971 and went back in 1978 as i was in communications, ah the good old days 😉
I read that the test flight hangar was going to be closed but I didn't think some of the war in the air aircraft would be moved in there. I'm shocked tbh. I guess it's no longer a test flight hangar. There going to have to move a lot more exhibits though to make room for that wellington for may
A superb collection of interesting aircraft and extremely nicely presented, really top quality. RAF still top notch, but needs to be bigger, all our forces need a lot more money spent and it’s a priority as we now see.
👍👍👍 🇬🇧 RAF, a superb history and of the people, service & courage.
lots of military places to visit in the uk
Will be going to the airshow there in June. Like the 262
Did my Aircraft Handling here and got to taxi 'throttle' down the runway in a jet Provost and power up the Vulcan!!! Cool day!! Cool place!
I haven’t been to RAF Cosford since the summer of 2021, it looks like they have added some brilliant stuff since I was there (mainly the chinook and harrier) so I’ll definitely have to go back there this summer…
If you go around the end of may early June you'll be in for a big surprise. The massive change in the war in the air and test flight hangar is ultimately making room for the completed Vickers Wellington which will be back on display when the new bomber command exhibition opens in may (also the reason the Blenheim/Bolingbroke is now at Cosford too)
Great! Thanks for showing this. Must be about 30 years ago since I was last there. Loved seeing the Fiesler Storch back then (still have the photo with daughter stood in front) because I had only ever seen that plane in Commando comics! 😂
[p.s., for those who don't know, Churchill liked it too and used a captured one.]
Had one fly over the Hospital i was working in about 1979,What a noisy machine and slow 😀.
The museum is a must visit,very good.
I went over at the beginning of January, looks like they've had a move round in the WW2 hangar to make way for the Blenheim
Un grand merci de nous faire profiter de cette belle visite 🙂👍
That's my local air museum
Cool upload, i had no idea about that Fairey Delta 2 until this video. I looked it up and to see just how important that thing was to aviation history was crazy. How i didn't know about it until now is insane.
Cosford used to house a dozen of Britain's prototype and development aircraft, like the Hawker P.105 + series, which bridged the gap between the Hawker Seahawk and the Hawker Hunter.
Some cool stuff there . Thanks for the up load . ✈
I'm wondering if they could track down a copy the RAF News from 1978 that did a centre feature of 2 Squadron RAF Laarbruch. Big ask I know. But my Brother, Graham Gill, an Aden Veteran, who was wounded in that conflict, got back to good health and continued his RAF carreer, served in 2 Squadron at Laarbruch. until he demobbed in 1980.
I like planes
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@reecemccarron9601. Many years ago I used to work at Cosford in the Museum Society and my main interest was the refurbishment of the PBY Catalina. At that time the aircraft was based inside that hanger due to the fact that the paint was unsuitable for it to be outside. Due to other commitments I was unable to continue working at the Museum. On my last visit, as a normal paying customer I noticed that the Cat had now been moved to its present position and I was aghast at the state the aircraft was then in, the grey paint was flaking off and the `day-glo` paint-work on the nose and wing floats was also missing in large patches. I noticed on your film that the Cat appeared to be in a very presentable show condition and was wanting to ask you if that was the actual case or was it still looking shabby?.
amazing
There were Lincolns at the Lichfield MU in LTS., very handy for climbing into when on night patrol, the O Officer never thought to look there.
Never been to Cosford. I have Duxford, Shuttleworth and Hendon fairly close and visit often. Cosford is where they restore many classic aircraft?
Love how they have posed the Lightning… in its usual ‘vertical’ flying position 😄
Best view with caption, descriptive, also with nice music would be great, back ground noise unhelpful. For study....
Great vlog cheers keep up the subs
At approx 18 mins into video is RAF Devon VP952 in front is a picture of a Devon flying over Deptford power station VP958 my dads flying that, also flew over St Pauls and Tower Bridge on the same day 1957. Metropolitan Communication sqn Hendon remember the station closing and moving to Wildenrath. Still have his pilot log books
Been there last year worth it to go there but I how come I haven’t seen that Chinnook?? Is it new item they add?? 18:25
Yes, it was added recently.
14:38 Polaris Penetration Aid Carrier!! The black conical thing is one of two nuclear warheads, the black and brown tubes are chaff launchers and the bay with the stainless steel tank contains various chemical batteries and I think the roll thruster which used Hydrazine as a propellant. We were told that 1 ppm was enough to kill you!!
This was a British modification to the American Polaris missile that was intended to replace the third warhead the Americans had with equipment that made the two warheads look like about 50 warheads as it came over the horizon towards the enemy✅
Built by many company’s, but Sperry Gyroscope, Bracknell was the one I worked for. Test launches at Woomera in Australia. Thruster testing at RAF Westcott (PERME) north of Aylesbury.
Lots of clever engineers involved✅
Lettuce Curtis used to walk through our offices with an air ministry briefcase chained to her wrist!
The project was called”Chevaline”, and was stopped by Margaret Thatcher, because of cost overruns, and the impending purchase of Trident.
Just the ramblings of an old man, but check Lettuce out, because she must have had a life and a half!! She flew Lancasters and Spitfires, so that’s already an enviable bucket list.
Those were the days.
Really well filmed 👍
My father was stationed here for a bit during WW2 with either No. 1 or No.3 MU. [ maintenance unit] he said he saw a proto type Spit. crash there somewhere. Thoughts were, that after going into a vertical climb, the pilot ' blacked out' due to the G forces.
Interesting vid but panning was too quick for me, so had to leave it early.
Very nice very rapid video. Speaking as an American, who defibitely does not have nearly as much familiarity with British aircraft sd would be nice; I hope you can go back another time with a slower pace and either accompanied by video of the identifying placards or narration, at least of the names and period they represent. Abd I would not bother with the display cases. As unfortunately they don’t show up well on video. Please excuse the typos, fat fingers get in the way.
On allmy trips to the uK I would hire a car , however due to the problems of trying to find a parking spot in LondonI, I decided to do all my travelling my train and mapped out times, places and touring to see as many museums as possible in the planed month I would be there. I had never been to Gosford Museum so included it in my touring around. As luck would have it the walk from the station to the museum was long and wet (drizzling rain) NO one bother to give me a lift. However the trip was certanly worth it.
Honestly it's better you go to Cosford, as it's an RAF airfield and houses a worthwhile museum.
Gosford is a fictional country house, and might be frustrating by comparison. ;-)
For Cosford, the mainline trains out of the West End stations go toward Birmingham, and one of the stops is Albrighton, from which station you can walk to RAF Cosford museum.
PS especially seeing the TSR2
It would be useful if you stayed a second or two longer on the name boards.
Esse lugar é fantástico!! É o sonho de todo plastimodelista🌟
Must go and see that Boulton Paul Defiant, my late Father was one of the Engineers that built it!
My great grandpa flew them! One of only few to survive daytime operations in it
I remember my uncle being based at st athan during the 80s alot of the ww2 aircraft were stored there and I had the pleasure of seeing some of these aircraft being run up!! On an open day distinctly removed the fw190 and the owl
I visited St Athens in the late eighties, on a course, got to sit in those German aircraft, Me410, FW190, plus a Storch. in another Hangar they had all the Spitfire gate guardians that had been removed from various stations. Lots of which I had worked on during my time on BBMF in the 70's
Feel like I'm there, makes me wanna go back, great cinematography 😁
Car park is private company. museum doesn't get cash. Thus they ask for donations. All money should go to running museum.
Totally agree
@@RLAVIATION I know a employee, i say free car park and charge at the door, £10 adult is reasonable, kids free.
no lightning ?
Cosford is only up the road from me - It just needs some of the exhibits getting some much needed TLC. Not much has changed there over the years either.
What days it opens
I’m going today 😊
It was AMAZING 😻
Well it's a brilliant (and not display over-crowded) museum just an hour away from me so I'll be going along there this Summer and chipping in my voluntary £20:00 for the privilege. The V2 rocket system is particularly interesting as they used to (and since the re-modelling I hope they still do) have a lot of the ancillaries on display. IMO, Cosford's guided missile/rocket collection as a whole needs to be displayed more prominently as it's got some real 'jems' in there.
I been here at school one a long time ago
A few moments more looking at the information stands by each plane so one can understand what we're seeing would have been nice.
Will try to capture more of this going forward
I dint see any BF109 ....do they have ??
Hendon museum now shares the aircraft from Cosford, as that Me262, Me410 in this video and the two Japanese planes (a Ki45 and a Ki100 (unique in the world)) are now more often seen at Hendon than Cosford.
I was at Cosford in April they definitely had the 109 and the Me262 there then.
been here many times, but always have to touch the spit. Just cant help myself
What days it closes
7 days a week February until November 10am-4pm
What? No T21? (Glider) I could spend a week in here.
First let me say I really enjoyed your video. But please when you film another one don't move the camera around so much. It really hurts the eyes.
There's always one🙄
Thanks for the tips!
Better if you stayed longer on the name plates. Thanks 👍🇦🇺🦘
etwas zu schnelle kamera...hilft nur standbild ...
vulcan
Poco profesional el cámara, es un mareo ver las imágenes.
Very difficult video to watch, the camera work is awful
I mean as a beginner it isn’t going to be the best but thank you I look forward to providing you with more awful camera work in the future 😊
צלם גרוע! שלא הייתי נותן לו לצלם את הקיר האחורי של בית שימוש ציבורי
All flight museums suck...can't ever just sit in a cockpit and feel what it was like.
Because people break and nick stuff. If they didnt there would be more fee paying open cockpit days which Cosford periodically do.
How would you like someone clambering on when you're 60, 70, 80 years old ?.
And has was already said......certain persons will try to damage or steal parts.
All those killing planes/jets that kill other people all under one roof.What more could you ask for?
For some it’s a good reminder of the effort they made in representing our country
You to shut up maybe
@@RLAVIATION Yes of course.But if they weren't killing other people.Then what was the point in making them in the first place?
Cars kill people
Some are for search and rescue, young twit