Hawker Siddeley Nimrod

This is a photograph that I took at an Air Display at the Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington in July 2010.

It’s a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, built at Woodford as an MR.1 and later converted to MR.2 specifications. It was designed as a maritime patrol aircraft and mainly intended for anti-submarine warfare operations.

Yorkshire Air Museum

I took these photographs on a visit to the Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington on a rainy and overcast day in July 2010.

It's a Canadair CT-133, a trainer developed from the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and has a Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet instead of the T-33's Allison J33.

The aircraft in the background here is the museum's RAF English Electric Canberra T.4 WH846.

Handley Page Halifax III (LV907) "Friday the 13th"

This is one of the aircraft I photographed at a display at the Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington in July 2010.

It's a WWII Handley Page Halifax III, about which the website of the museum says this:

This plane is a reconstruction based on a section of the fuselage of Halifax II, HR792, and the wings came from Hastings, TG536, found at RAF Catterick. The unusual name of "Friday the 13th" was given to the plane after 158 Squadron had several aircraft with the registration F shot down in succession. When their new aircraft arrived with the same letter on it, the Flight Officer decided to try and break the curse. On the bomber's first mission on March 30th, 1944 it saved the life of pilot Joe Hitchman who was swapped from his regular aircraft on to the new one at the last minute. His old plane was shot down, but Friday returned to base unscathed.

The right side has the colours of the 346 French Squadron (Guyenne) based at RAF Elvington from June 1944 to October 1945.

The left side is named “Friday the 13th” in honour of Halifax, LV907, which completed 128 operations with 158 Squadron.

English Electric Canberra

I took this photograph at the Air Display at the Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington on a damp and overcast day in July 2010.

It's an English Electric Canberra, a light bomber designed to replace the de Havilland Mosquito which had served the RAF so well during the Second World War. The Canberra entered service with the RAF in 1951, and the last one was withdrawn from service in 2006.

Supermarine Seafire Mk XVII

These photographs were taken at the Air Display at the  Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington on a damp and overcast day in July 2010.

It's a Supermarine Seafire Mk XVII, which was the naval development of the Spitfire. SX336 (G-KASX) was built by Westland Aircraft in 1946 and served with various units in the Royal Navy before it was scrapped in 1955. It was recovered in the 1970s as a bare fuselage and after a few owners, went to Tim Manna of Kennet Aviation to finish the restoration, taking to the air for the first time since restoration in 2006.

Handley Page Victor K.2

The Handley Page Victor was one of the three 'V' bombers that formed the UK's strategic nuclear strike force in the 1950s and 60s, the other two being the Avro Vulcan and the Vickers Valiant. The Handley Page Victor later evolved into the K.2 air tanker used for refuelling other aircraft in mid-air to extend their operational range. 

These photographs were taken at the Air Display at the  Yorkshire Air Museum at RAF Elvington on a damp and overcast day in July 2010 where the museum's Handley Page Victor K.2 performed taxiing runs up and down the runway during the course of the day.