I would have to disagree on this one for the simple fact that I think our German Friends would make a case for the Me262 as the first Practical Jet Powered Combat Aircraft.

Now if you want to say the only first Generation Jet Powered Combat Aircraft left then maybe.

Scorpion, I think historians might never agree as to which (Me262 or Meteor) actually entered service first – both during June, 1944. The important point with the Cosford example it is the very first Meteor.

It is ironic that all the other surviving Meteors entered service after the end of hostilities wheras all the surviving Me262s were built before then.

Roger Smith.

Have you tried Bob Ogden’s “Aviation Museums & Collections of Mainland Europe”? pub. Air Britain.

Roger Smith.

It was Humber Monoplane replica (BAPC9) on loan from the Midland A.M.

Now on display at the Museum it was originally built as a Bleriot IX by “military apprentices for use in a Royal Tournament” (I assume 1959 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bleriot’s crossing of the English Channel) and then acquired by the Shuttleworth Collection. Passed on loan to the Midland A.P.S. (c.1970) who, by the addition of an original Humber 3-cyl engine and a scratch-built propellor, turned it into a replica of a Humber Monoplane. The Humber Co. of Coventry built a quantity of Bleriot’s (under licence?) in 1909/10.

Birmingham Airport and the Midland A.M. were in talks to display an aircraft in the new terminal and, initially, it was hoped that DH Fox Moth G-ACCB would be restored to static for display there but that wasn’t to be.

Have photos of the ‘unveiling’ by Sheila Scott can post if anyone interested.

The Humber was removed some years later when the space occupied by it was to be taken up by the construction of a full first floor.

Roger Smith.

Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 TS363 landed itself with not much damage on May 30th, 1949 after pilot J. Lancaster ejected. This was the first emergency use of a Martin Baker seat in the UK.

Roger Smith.

I think it IS the airfield that is proposed for use as the new ECO town.

However LM is but one of three sites in the Midlands and a much larger number throughout England (or UK?) being considered for this proposal. I’m sure other airfields/ex airfields are included in the full list.

Roger Smith.

Rolls Royce produced Lycoming (American) horizontally-opposed (flat 4 & flat 6 ??) engines in the 60’s and 70’s I think.

Roger Smith.

From 1956 to 1960 I was quite an avid spotter. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera that worked but here is a photo one of my friends took of me standing on the remains of Viscount G-ALWE at Coley’s Scrapyard in Hanworth/Hounslow…………Ian

By strange coincidence at a car boot/antique fair a week ago I saw on one stand two large tinplate toys/models (about 14-15″ span). One was of a DC-6 in KLM marks – just like AA’s G-APSA a couple of miles from where I was stood – the other of Viscount G-ALWE (the next in series to ‘LWF at Duxford).
Regrettably the stand was being looked after by a “youth” who had no idea how much they were for sale for 🙁
If G-ALWE was in a scrapyard between 1956 & 1960 it had a very short life – what happened to it?

Roger Smith.