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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford

Index Royal Air Force Museum Cosford

The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular. [1]

109 relations: AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder, Aircraft engine, Alvis Leonides, Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah, Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major, Armstrong Siddeley Mamba, Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, Armstrong Siddeley Viper, Aviation museum, BAC TSR-2, Bentley BR2, Blackburn Cirrus Major, Blohm & Voss BV 246, Bloodhound (missile), Blue Steel (missile), Boeing 707, Bristol Siddeley 605, Bristol Thor, British Airways, Cardington, Bedfordshire, Charitable organization, Cold War, Colindale, Cosford railway station, Cosford, Shropshire, Daimler-Benz DB 605, De Havilland Firestreak, De Havilland Gipsy, De Havilland Gipsy Queen, De Havilland Spectre, De Havilland Sprite, Dornier Do 17, Elizabeth II, English Electric Lightning, Enzian, Feuerlilie, Fireflash, Fritz X, GAM-87 Skybolt, General Electric T700, Handley Page Hampden, Hawker Siddeley Trident, Hendon, Henschel Hs 117, Henschel Hs 293, Henschel Hs 298, Junkers Jumo 004, Junkers Jumo 205, List of aerospace museums, ..., London Transport Museum, LVG C.VI, Lycoming O-360, Malkara (missile), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Martel (missile), Michael A. Fopp, Michael Beetham, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Nakajima Sakae, Napier Lion, Non-departmental public body, PGM-17 Thor, Power Jets W.2, Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior, RAF Cosford, Rapier (missile), Red Dean, Red Top (missile), Renault 70 hp, Rheinbote, Rheintochter, Rolls-Royce Avon, Rolls-Royce Conway, Rolls-Royce Dart, Rolls-Royce Derwent, Rolls-Royce Kestrel, Rolls-Royce Merlin, Rolls-Royce Olympus, Rolls-Royce RB108, Rolls-Royce RB162, Rolls-Royce RB211, Rolls-Royce Spey, Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour, Rolls-Royce Tyne, Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Museum, Royal Air Force Museum London, Ruhrstahl X-4, Sea Skua, Shropshire, Silkworm (missile), SRAAM, SS.11, Swingfire, Taifun (rocket), Thunderbird (missile), Turbo-Union RB199, UGM-27 Polaris, V bomber, V-1 flying bomb, V-2 rocket, Vickers VC10, Walter HWK 109-500, Walter HWK 509, Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line, Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone. Expand index (59 more) »

AIM-7 Sparrow

The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as other various air forces and navies.

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AIM-9 Sidewinder

The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a short-range air-to-air missile developed by the United States Navy at China Lake, California, in the 1950s, and subsequently adopted by the United States Air Force.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.

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Alvis Leonides

The Alvis Leonides was a British air-cooled nine-cylinder radial aero engine first developed by Alvis Car and Engineering Company in 1936.

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Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah

The Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah is a seven-cylinder British air-cooled aircraft radial engine of 834 cu in (13.65 L) capacity introduced in 1935 and produced until 1948.

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Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major

The Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major is a British five-cylinder (later seven-cylinder), air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft, designed and built by Armstrong Siddeley and first run in 1928.

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Armstrong Siddeley Mamba

The Armstrong Siddeley Mamba was a British turboprop engine produced by Armstrong Siddeley in the late 1940s and 1950s, producing around 1,500 effective horsepower (1,100 kW).

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Armstrong Siddeley Stentor

The Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, latterly Bristol Siddeley BSSt.1 Stentor, was a two-chamber rocket engine used to power the Blue Steel stand-off missile carried by Britain's V bomber force.

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Armstrong Siddeley Viper

The Armstrong Siddeley Viper is a British turbojet engine developed and produced by Armstrong Siddeley and then by its successor companies Bristol Siddeley and Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Aviation museum

An aviation museum, air museum, or aerospace museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation.

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BAC TSR-2

The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Bentley BR2

The Bentley B.R.2 was a nine-cylinder British rotary aircraft engine developed during the First World War by the motor car engine designer W. O. Bentley from his earlier Bentley BR.1.

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Blackburn Cirrus Major

The Blackburn Cirrus Major is a British, four-cylinder, inline aircraft engine that was developed in the late 1930s.

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Blohm & Voss BV 246

The Blohm & Voss BV 246 Hagelkorn (German language: "Hailstone") was a guided glide bomb developed to bomb specific targets (bridges, ships, etc.) once it was released.

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Bloodhound (missile)

The Bristol Bloodhound is a British surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s as the UK's main air defence weapon, and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the forces of four other countries.

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Blue Steel (missile)

The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear armed standoff missile, built to arm the V bomber force.

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Boeing 707

The Boeing 707 is a mid-sized, long-range, narrow-body, four-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1958 to 1979.

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Bristol Siddeley 605

The Bristol Siddeley BS.605 was a British take off assist rocket engine of the mid-1960s that used hydrogen peroxide and kerosene propellant.

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Bristol Thor

The Bristol Thor, latterly Bristol Siddeley BS.1009 Thor, was a 16-inch diameter ramjet engine developed by Bristol Aero Engines (later Bristol Siddeley Engines) for the Bristol Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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Cardington, Bedfordshire

Cardington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Colindale

Colindale is an area which lies mainly within the London Borough of Barnet, although the western side of Colindale's main shopping street is within the London Borough of Brent.

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Cosford railway station

Cosford railway station is a two platform station on the former Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line.

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Cosford, Shropshire

Cosford is a village in Shropshire, England.

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Daimler-Benz DB 605

The Daimler-Benz DB 605 is a German aircraft engine, built during World War II.

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De Havilland Firestreak

The de Havilland Firestreak is a British first-generation, passive infrared homing (heat seeking) air-to-air missile.

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De Havilland Gipsy

The de Havilland Gipsy is a British air-cooled four-cylinder in-line aircraft engine designed by Frank Halford in 1927 to replace the ADC Cirrus in the de Havilland DH.60 Moth light biplane.

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De Havilland Gipsy Queen

The de Havilland Gipsy Queen is a British six-cylinder aero engine of capacity that was developed in 1936 by the de Havilland Engine Company.

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De Havilland Spectre

The de Havilland Spectre, (D.Spe.n / D.Spe.D.n), was a rocket engine built by de Havilland Engine Company in the 1950s.

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De Havilland Sprite

The Sprite, (DSpr.n) was a British rocket engine built by de Havilland for use in RATO (Rocket-assisted take off) applications.

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Dornier Do 17

The Dornier Do 17, sometimes referred to as the Fliegender Bleistift ("flying pencil"), was a light bomber of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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English Electric Lightning

The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era.

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Enzian

The Enzian (named for a genus of mountain flower, in English the Gentian) was a German WWII surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile that was the first to use a radio controlled guidance system.

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Feuerlilie

Feuerlilie (English: fire lily) was the code name of a German anti-aircraft missile, which was developed in 1940 and was shelved because of problems with the controller and the drive section at the end of January 1945 in favour of other projects.

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Fireflash

Fireflash was the United Kingdom's first air-to-air guided missile to see service with the Royal Air Force.

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Fritz X

Fritz X was the most common name for a German guided anti-ship glide bomb used during World War II.

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GAM-87 Skybolt

The Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt (AGM-48 under the 1962 Tri-service system) was an air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) developed by the United States during the late 1950s.

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General Electric T700

The General Electric T700 and CT7 are a family of turboshaft and turboprop engines in the class.

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Handley Page Hampden

The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden was a British twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Hawker Siddeley Trident

The Hawker Siddeley HS 121 Trident (originally the de Havilland D.H.121 and the Airco DH 121) was a British short- (and later medium-) range airliner.

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Hendon

Hendon is a London suburb in the Borough of Barnet, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Henschel Hs 117

The Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (German for Butterfly) was a radio-guided German surface-to-air missile project developed during World War II.

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Henschel Hs 293

The Henschel Hs 293 was a World War II German anti-ship guided missile: a radio controlled glide bomb with a rocket engine slung underneath it.

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Henschel Hs 298

The Henschel Hs 298 was a 1940s German rocket-powered air-to-air missile designed by Professor Herbert Wagner of Henschel.

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Junkers Jumo 004

The Junkers Jumo 004, was the world's first production turbojet engine in operational use, and the first successful axial compressor turbojet engine.

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Junkers Jumo 205

The Junkers Jumo 205 aircraft engine was the most famous of a series of aircraft Diesel engines that were the first, and for more than half a century the only successful aviation Diesel powerplants.

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List of aerospace museums

This is a list of aerospace museums and museums that contain significant aerospace-related exhibits throughout the world.

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London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city.

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LVG C.VI

The LVG C.VI was a German two-seat reconnaissance and artillery spotting aircraft used during World War I.

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Lycoming O-360

The Lycoming O-360 is a family of four-cylinder, direct-drive, horizontally opposed, air-cooled, piston aircraft engines.

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Malkara (missile)

The Malkara (from an Aboriginal word for "shield") was one of the earliest guided anti-tank missiles (ATGMs).

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Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Marshal of the Royal Air Force (MRAF) is the highest rank in the British Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Martel (missile)

The Martel is an Anglo-French anti-radiation missile (ARM).

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Michael A. Fopp

Michael A. Fopp is a retired National Museum Director.

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Michael Beetham

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael James Beetham, (17 May 1923 – 24 October 2015) was a Second World War bomber pilot and a high-ranking commander in the Royal Air Force from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Nakajima Sakae

The was a two-row, 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine used in a number of combat aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.

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Napier Lion

The Napier Lion was a 12-cylinder 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s.

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Non-departmental public body

In the United Kingdom, non-departmental public body (NDPB) is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations).

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PGM-17 Thor

Thor was the first operational ballistic missile deployed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF).

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Power Jets W.2

The Power Jets W.2 was a British turbojet engine designed by Frank Whittle and Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd.

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Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp

The Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp is an American aircraft engine widely used in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior

The Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior is a series of nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial aircraft engines built by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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RAF Cosford

Royal Air Force Cosford or RAF Cosford (formerly DCAE Cosford) is a Royal Air Force station in Cosford, Shropshire, just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton.

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Rapier (missile)

Rapier is a surface-to-air missile developed for the British Army to replace their towed Bofors 40/L70 anti-aircraft guns.

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Red Dean

The Red Dean was an air-to-air missile developed by the United Kingdom in the 1950s but cancelled before development was complete.

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Red Top (missile)

The Hawker Siddeley (later British Aerospace) Red Top was the third indigenous British air-to-air missile to enter service, following the de Havilland Firestreak and limited-service Fairey Fireflash.

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Renault 70 hp

The Renault 70 hp or Type WB was a British V-8 aero engine that first ran circa 1913.

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Rheinbote

Rheinbote (Rhine Messenger, or V4) was a German short range ballistic rocket developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig at Berlin-Marienfelde during World War II.

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Rheintochter

Rheintochter was a German surface-to-air missile developed by Rheinmetall-Borsig during World War II.

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Rolls-Royce Avon

The Rolls-Royce Avon was the first axial flow jet engine designed and produced by Rolls-Royce.

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Rolls-Royce Conway

The Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway was the first turbofan in the world to enter service.

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Rolls-Royce Dart

The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart is a long-lived British turboprop engine designed, built and manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Rolls-Royce Derwent

The Rolls-Royce RB.37 Derwent is a 1940s British centrifugal compressor turbojet engine, the second Rolls-Royce jet engine to enter production.

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Rolls-Royce Kestrel

The Kestrel or type F is a 22-litre (1,342 Cu In) 700-horsepower (520 kW) class V-12 aircraft engine from Rolls-Royce, their first cast-block engine and the pattern for most of their future piston-engine designs.

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Rolls-Royce Merlin

The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litres (1,650 cu in) capacity.

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Rolls-Royce Olympus

The Rolls-Royce Olympus (originally the Bristol B.E.10 Olympus) was the world's first two-spool axial-flow turbojet aircraft engine design, dating from November 1946, although not the first to run or enter service.

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Rolls-Royce RB108

The Rolls-Royce RB.108 was a British jet engine designed in the mid-1950s by Rolls-Royce specifically for use as a VTOL lift engine, i.e., an engine intended primarily for providing upwards thrust rather than for horizontal propulsion.

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Rolls-Royce RB162

The Rolls-Royce RB162 was a simply constructed and lightweight British turbojet engine produced by Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Rolls-Royce RB211

The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a British family of high-bypass turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce plc.

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Rolls-Royce Spey

The Rolls-Royce Spey (company designations RB.163 and RB.168 and RB.183) is a low-bypass turbofan engine originally designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce that has been in widespread service for over 40 years.

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Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour

The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour is a two-shaft low bypass turbofan aircraft engine developed by Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Limited, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce (UK) and Turbomeca (France).

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Rolls-Royce Tyne

The Rolls-Royce RB.109 Tyne is a twin-shaft turboprop engine developed in the mid to late 1950s by Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H

The Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H was a medium bypass ratio turbofan produced specifically for the twin-engined VFW-Fokker 614 aircraft in the early 1970s.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Air Force Museum

The Royal Air Force Museum is a museum dedicated to the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Air Force Museum London

The Royal Air Force Museum London, commonly called the RAF Museum, is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, with five major buildings and hangars dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force.

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Ruhrstahl X-4

The Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 or Ruhrstahl-Kramer RK 344 was a wire guided air-to-air missile designed by Germany during World War II.

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Sea Skua

The Sea Skua is a British lightweight short-range air-to-surface missile (ASM) designed for use from helicopters against ships.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Silkworm (missile)

The Shang You or SY-series, and the Hai Ying or HY-series were early Chinese anti-ship missiles.

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SRAAM

The Short Range Air-to-Air Missile, or SRAAM, was an experimental British infrared homing ("heat seeking") air-to-air missile, developed between 1968 and 1980 by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics.

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SS.11

SS.11 is the designation of the Nord Aviation MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile.

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Swingfire

Swingfire was a British wire-guided anti-tank missile developed in the 1960s and produced from 1966 until 1993.

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Taifun (rocket)

Taifun (German for "typhoon") was a German World War II anti-aircraft unguided rocket system.

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Thunderbird (missile)

The English Electric Thunderbird was a British surface-to-air missile produced for the British Army.

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Turbo-Union RB199

The Turbo-Union RB199 is an aircraft turbofan jet engine designed and built in the early 1970s by Turbo-Union, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce, MTU and FiatAvio.

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UGM-27 Polaris

The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile.

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V bomber

The term "V bomber" was used for the Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V force or Bomber Command Main Force.

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V-1 flying bomb

The V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1")—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.

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V-2 rocket

The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.

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Vickers VC10

The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at Brooklands, Surrey, in 1962.

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Walter HWK 109-500

The Walter HWK 109-500 was a liquid-fuelled rocket engine developed by Walter in Germany during the Second World War.

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Walter HWK 509

The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German liquid-fuel bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft.

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Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line

The Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line is the railway line from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury via Wellington; it was originally built by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway.

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Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone

The Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone was one of the most powerful radial aircraft engines produced in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Museum_Cosford

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