Douglas XGAM87 Skybolt
In 1958 several US contractors demonstrated to the USAF that large ballistic vehicles could be launched from strategic bombers at high altitude. The contractors argued that this …
Period: Post-WWII
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1
The Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft was derived from the Comet airliner. It originally entered RAF service in 1969 in MR1 variant to replace the Avro Shackleton. From …
Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1
Hawker had been privately developing a vertical take off aircraft since the 1950s under the code of P.1127. The success of this private venture, and the subsequent …
British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP)
Engine – Alvis Leonides 128
This post-war derivative of the Alvis 9ARS appeared in numerous sub-variants. The Leonides is a 9-cylinder, air-cooled single-row radial poppet-valve engine. The Leonides 503/7A, Mk 128 01/2, …
Engine – Alvis Leonides Major
A 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine, the Leonides Major 755/1. Mk 155, 780hp seen here, is a medium supercharged, de-rated engine. It is an oblique, direct-drive helicopter engine …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Mamba
The Mamba has virtually a straight-through air flow system, its diameter (less than 30ins measured over the cowling) is remarkably small and the frontal area only about …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 200
The Sapphire engine is a turbojet with an axial-flow compressor and an annular combustion chamber of the Armstrong Siddeley vaporising type. It was the first British turbojet …
Engine – de Havilland Ghost 50
The Ghost is larger and more powerful than the Goblin and is again distinguished from the Goblin by having only 10 combustion chambers. The Ghost was developed …
Engine – de Havilland Goblin 2
In the race to get a viable engine from Whittle’s design, de Havilland were also asked to develop a gas turbine. Halford, de Havilland’s engine designer, used …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Avon R.A.3-101
The Avon was tested in mid 1947. At 6000lb static thrust it made its first public display at the 1948 Farnborough Show in a Lancastrian flying test-bed …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Dart RDa 3 Mk.506
This is a famous and very successful turbo-prop engine, the design of which commenced in 1945. Test bed aircraft included the Lancaster (1947) and the Dakota (1949). …
Morris Minor Traveller
This Morris Traveller, British Army, staff car was presented to the Museum by No. 24 Base Workshops; It was rebuilt by apprentices of 24 Base Workshop REME, …
David-Brown Aircraft Tractor
This tractor was in general use throughout the Royal Air Force for moving small to medium-sized aircraft during the 1940s and 1950s. It could move an aircraft …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Derwent
The Derwent 1 was designed to the same diameter as the Welland as it had to fit the same Meteor nacelle. It was designed to produce 2000lb …