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Museum of Scottish Aviation - East Fortune rd

The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum, at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune, Scotland. The museum is housed in the original wartime buildings of RAF East Fortune which is a well preserved World War II airfield. RAF East Fortune was used as a fighter station during the First World War and later used by a night fighter operational training unit during the Second World War. The motto of the station is "Fortune Favours the Bold".
A trip round the Museum of Scottish Aviation at East Fortune for my birthday. 21/2/2009
A return visit was made on 25/6/2017
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    XT288 has been restored externally (bar missing pylons, pitot probe and ECM bullets) but is missing her engines (at least that means no problems with dripping oil!) and her cockpit is near-gutted right now. XT288 had a varied career, serving with the Fleet Air Arm to begin with and then going on to serve with the RAF with 12 Sqn, 230 OCU, 28 Sqn and 208 Sqn. Ending her days with 12 Sqn, a ground accident caused one of the wings to become twisted, thus relegating her to ground weapons handling instructional use only thus she never had a chance to see service in the Gulf.
    The Buccaneer seen beyond the tail booms of the Sea Venom.
    Folded wings and cockpits. In the foreground is de Havilland Sea Venom WW145. It is on display with its wings folded as it the Buccaneer behind. The Phantom at the back can also fold its wings. This Sea Venom is a FAW.22 variant, it has the more powerful (5,300 lbf (23.6 kN)) Ghost 105 engine, giving improved high-altitude performance.