#Cosford

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[eagleofthe9th]

Well, if you go to an aerospace museum, why not see one of the signature aircraft?

[fiona-stabler]

dragon ! !

[garadinervi]

Areliz Ramos, Fr​í​o, Where To Now? Records, 2022, Limited hand assembled CD, Edition of 100. Sleeve design by Liam Cosford

[bluesman56]

Sir Henry Vernon with Lady Anne Talbot by Tony Via Flickr: Sir Henry Vernon KB (1441–1515) became governor and treasurer to Arthur, Prince of Wales, married Anne Talbot daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury and rebuilt Haddon Hall. Their tomb here is in Tong Parish church

[good-night-dodger]

My kind of new year’s plans. (link)

[pianotunerwolverhampton]

Tuning a 'Hubert and Jones' 1930s Upright Piano at RAF Cosford, Shropshire.

#rafcosford #piano #pianist #music #pianotuner #pianotuning #musicians #hubert #jones #raf

[islifearecipe]

555 Villa Thai

Share Tweet Pinit WhatsApp 555 Thai Villa 555 Thai Villa, also known as 555 Villa Thai, is a cracking Thai Mookata restaurant down at Changi Airport. I kid you not it is literally overlooking one of the runways. You sit there and dine and through the fence watch all the planes landing and taking off right before your eyes. Being quirky they have even got a road sign up giving directions to…

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The world's oldest surviving Spitfire at Cosford. It has a flat cockpit canopy and a ring and bead gunsight.

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[deweydecimalchickens]

So yeah, I escaped from Meriden! TL;DR: I managed 30.8 miles as the crow flies and 44 as the feet walk, getting from Meriden in Warwickshire to RAF Cosford in Shropshire. Technically I am now an ultramarathoner, having skipped the marathon stage.

Learnings:

My Hi Tec Raven boots are cute, cheap and vegan, but do not support my feet enough, even with Supafeet insoles. Thankfully my route took me past my house and I could swap to my battered old Peter Storms, which will never be waterproof again, but give my feet a good cuddle.

Plotting a route that went past my house was a stroke of genius. It added about five miles but meant I could switch to dry clothes and have an emergency nap. Also it turns out my cats cannot handle the timed feeder, psychologically.

I am a convert to using two lightweight walkimg poles, even if they left me with sore shoulders and blisters on my hands. 44 miles with poles felt a lot better than 25 without. Also a godsend for poking dodgy terrain in the dark before putting your feet on it.

Sometimes it's better to pee al fresco than go in the abandoned portaloo that's physically and spiritually a bit unstable.

People who do weird events are generally lovely. The pre-race briefing included a section dedicated to a guy last year who missed a tiny 'footpath closed' sign, fell in a construction mud pit, lost a shoe, and continued for a further 25 miles. At which point an angel watching the race randomly showed up to lend him shoes. And then the race director presented him with a brand new pair this year.

If you're gonna carry two litres of fluid on your back you should probably drink some of it in the first 15 miles or you don't get to wonder why you have a headache and brain fog.

Photos below the cut.

Cross at the centre of England; race start point. It's not a cross anymore because it's 500 years old.

Alright yeah let's do this!

Extremely cursed toilet. Or I pissed in the TARDIS. It was dark.

When I realised it was only 24 hours for drive thru and I'm not a car and there would not be coffee.

Radical Muslim found in Lozells. Must be one of those no-go areas of Birmingham I've heard about *rolls eyes*

More street art, this time in Handsworth, commemorating the 1976-7 Grunwick strike.

Dark again by the time I reached my fourth county (Warwickshire, West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire)

RAF Cosford inviting me to coffee in the community hub, behind barbed wire, under the Official Secrets Act.

Pathetically drinking vitamin/electrolyte juice in the train home.

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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, Vulcan Bomber

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RAF Avro Vulcan doing a weapons bay pass during an airshow at RAF Cosford

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The East Anglian, 70000 Britannia por Trevor Reoch Por Flickr: The East Anglian, featuring locomotive 70000 Britannia rounding the bend on approach to Cosford, Shropshire having been held up by a delayed West Midlands Train Britannia was built at Crewe, completed on 2 January 1951. It was the first British Railways standard locomotive to be built and the first of 55 locomotives of the Britannia class. The locomotive was named at a ceremony at Marylebone Station by the then Minister for Transport Alfred Barnes on 30 January 1951. The locomotive pulled the funeral train of King George VI[5] from King's Lynn, Norfolk to London following his death in February 1952

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IMG_0067 by Fred Taylor Via Flickr: Bristol 188 XF926 RAFM Cosford 6 August 2013

[lovotomii]

whoever drew these at RAF Cosford please talk to me, I promise I won't personally persuade the C-in-C to court martial you or anything