A few photos from a quick visit to Cosford today
The lovely Auster Antarctic
Original uniforms covered in some sort of plastic cast…. eep!
“Oh, come on–eet ees only waffer theen….”
Bit beefier than your average Opel
Interesting Morane Saulnier relic
Obligatory TSR2 shot
By: dhfan - 14th April 2009 at 17:24
The email I had from Cosford a couple of years ago said they were changing their catering contractors. I haven’t been since so I don’t know if they have.
Elvington used to be a cut above until, presumably, the bean counters got to work. Like Cosford, they replaced the old biddy wielding a gigantic teapot with a gleaming machine that dispensed an indefinable brown liquid.
By: TMN - 14th April 2009 at 17:03
The food in the restaurant at East Kirkby is by far the best we’ve experienced at a British aviation museum – no complaints there – and the soup-n-a-roll at the November night run is most welcome too!
As for Cosford’s sandwiches – thought they had a new menu or changed contractor? They don’t look any different to the last few years!
By: EGTC - 14th April 2009 at 16:45
Great photos!
By: lmisbtn - 14th April 2009 at 16:37
Not to mention they fact they don’t even have enough seats, so I had to stand whilst eating my lunch!
The Opel was used by British Intelligence and fitted with cameras, armour, etc, it was used in the Cold War for travelling on a road (in east Berlin I believe) on which the British were allowed to travel, so these cars were used to photograph Russian military vehicles etc
I believe this BRIXMIS car (or one like it) used to be in the army museum at Chelsea Barracks…
I don’t think BRIXMIS ops were confined to East Berlin – they ranged further afield in the GDR and often got into trouble (the Russkis took a pot shot at an overflying RAF Chipmunk on at least one occasion and their French and US counterparts sustained fatalities as the result of traffic ‘accidents’ involving their cars and huge Russian army trucks).
The British, US and French teams collected invaluable intel, while risking their own balls, to verify Warsaw Pact exercises for exactly what they were rather than NATO misinterpreting them as preparations for war – hats off to them!
Tony Geraghty wrote a fascinating book on these ops that includes pics of UK BRIXMIS servicemen doing filthy leggers away from Soviet vehicles and an unforgettable one of a huge moustachioed Soviet soldier, having been rudely awoken from his slumber by a BRIXMIS team, standing there in his y-fronts about to shoulder his AK-47.
More info here…
By: benyboy - 14th April 2009 at 15:41
I recomend Fort Paull. Great food and a bar in a bunker or railway carriage.
Nice pics Rob. Your student loan seems to have gone a lot further than mine. Oh well at least I`m getting a free BBMF flypast over my house this weekend.
Any pics from outside. whats left out there now ?
By: Lindy's Lad - 14th April 2009 at 15:01
See, we’re just not used to ‘proper’ food up north…. it were soggy bread and grit when I were a lad……. A few mangled pig extracts with skinheads on a raft is luxury……
(Sausage with Beans on toast for the more ‘heducated…)
By: Bruce - 14th April 2009 at 14:55
Admittedly I havent been to DX for a while, but when I used to, it was bad!
Bruce
By: Lindy's Lad - 14th April 2009 at 14:52
None of our Aviation museums ‘get’ catering. Its all bad.
I went to a local attraction last week with the family, where we got superb food, cheap, and could get a local, albeit bottled real ale to boot. Not expensive either.
It was a similar type of family attraction to most museums – if they can get it right, then others really should try much harder….
Bruce
What about the cafe at Duxford? The breakfasts are the stuff of legend… or Legends….
By: Bruce - 14th April 2009 at 14:42
None of our Aviation museums ‘get’ catering. Its all bad.
I went to a local attraction last week with the family, where we got superb food, cheap, and could get a local, albeit bottled real ale to boot. Not expensive either.
It was a similar type of family attraction to most museums – if they can get it right, then others really should try much harder….
Bruce
By: Peter - 14th April 2009 at 14:28
Hmm old fasioned British Rail sandwhiches eh??
By: pagen01 - 14th April 2009 at 09:51
Thanks Rob, looks like it would have stuck out like a sore thumb!
By: Rlangham - 14th April 2009 at 09:46
Not to mention they fact they don’t even have enough seats, so I had to stand whilst eating my lunch!
The Opel was used by British Intelligence and fitted with cameras, armour, etc, it was used in the Cold War for travelling on a road (in east Berlin I believe) on which the British were allowed to travel, so these cars were used to photograph Russian military vehicles etc
By: pagen01 - 14th April 2009 at 08:46
“Waffer thin”…. 😮 Who on earth did their sandwich packaging? They want shooting for their appalling choice of spelling and grammar…..
Not to mention the pricing!
Nice pics Rob, what is the significance of the Opel?
By: hunterxf382 - 14th April 2009 at 08:03
“Waffer thin”…. 😮
Who on earth did their sandwich packaging? They want shooting for their appalling choice of spelling and grammar…..
By: bazv - 13th April 2009 at 22:43
Nice pics Rob…I always enjoy Cosford (except for the ‘fallen down hangar ‘ of course),the auster was one of the models I built when I was at school 😀
regards baz
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