I thought I would start a new thread for Yorkshire Air Museum as its a museum fairly close to me and I visit on a fairly regular basis.
The museum is situated by Elvington airfield just outside the city of York.
it boasts an impressive collection of aircraft from the pioneers of flight up to Cold War and beyond. check out yorkshireairmuseum.org
I will try to add a post daily to this thread to give members a good idea what to expect should they choose to visit.
starting with work being carried out on the English Electric lightning F.6.
XS903 started its service with 5 squadron at RAF Binbrook, then several spells with 11 squadron at RAF Coningsby. I don’t think RAF Coningsby was to be particularly “lucky” for XS903 as it suffered one or two accidents during its time on 11 Squadron including a nose wheel up landing in 1979 then lost part of its rudder in flight and had to make an emergency landing in 1987. it was then flown to Elvington airfield where it was to be preserved in 1988. untitled-7-Edit.jpg by darren Kendrick, on Flickr
thankfully the upper wing pods have now been removed (I personally don’t like the look). from what I understand the work carried out here was testing hydraulics.
the Dassault Mirage lllE 538. A Tactical fighter-Bomber presented to the museum by the French air force.it was flown in 1972 by museum member colonel Denis Turina whose father flew out of Elvington during World War Two.
This Mirage is a memorial to 346 (guyenne) and 347 (tunisie) which operated from Elvington during the 1940’s, flying the Halifax. untitled-27.jpg by darren Kendrick, on Flickr
This one I just had to take. round the back of the museum out of the public eye, getting prepped to be transferred to her new home at East Midlands aeropark sits the very run down Gloster Javelin XH767. she served with 11 squadron in Germany. Following service with the conversion unit at Leuchars ,XH767 retired in 1967. she was presented to the museum in 2001 but has now been gifted to EMA to be restored back to her former glory. Gloster Javelin XH767 by darren Kendrick, on Flickr
Today brings to you the, what I have always considered the “E Type of the skies”.
Hawker Hunter FGA.78. originally a mk6. this example served with the Qatar air force for 10 years before arriving at the museum. untitled-21.jpg by darren Kendrick, on Flickr
BAe Nimrod MR2 XV250 started life as a mr1 working from Raf Kinloss Scotland then on to Malta for a spell before returning to Kinloss.it then moved to Woodford in 1982 to be converted to MR2 then re delivered to Kinloss in 1983.
XV250 was flown into the museum on the 3rd April 2010 where it remains in ground operational condition.
The Shooting Star. or to be exact , Lockheed Canadair CL-30,later designated CT-133.
after being a gate guard at Baden Soellingen, Germany, this example was presented to the museum on behalf of the museums Canadian branch in august 1993.
Hunting Percival jet Provost T.4. a twin seat single engined jet trainer.
The Museum’s T.4 is displayed in the colours of No. 6 Flying Training School at Finningley, where it served during the 1970s. untitled.jpg by darren Kendrick, on Flickr
Another one taken on my last trip to Yorkshire air museum.
a Cold War trio, English Electric Lightning F6, Panavia Tornado GR1 and the Blackburn Buccaneer s.2B.
With a shot like this you could try the speed bump method. Something I learned watching @KevinJ and @M.M shooting jets on ramps. Get really low and compose the shot so it has the main subjects filling the whole frame. Makes it really dramatic and gives us way more to look at because so many details will show up.
Ok. I didnt see much wrong with it myself . As the subjects were much closer in this instance im not sure it would of helped here. I dont think i would have got any of the lightning in??
Oh I didn’t mean the picture was wrong, or bad. It was just a suggestion. I always keep looking for right angles, but I don’t have the “eye”, so I just copy what others are doing to see if it brings me any better results…
Just winding you up roger,
On a serious note, i never do, but really should pay more attention to composition. Im always too excited to just get the photo​:wink:
untitled-7-Edit.jpg by darren Kendrick, on Flickr
. As the subjects were much closer in this instance im not sure it would of helped here. I dont think i would have got any of the lightning in??