Photo by: Museum Centre Vapriikki (Tampere)

Used for training until it crashed at Cranwell on January 19, 1945. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The VL Myrsky ("Storm") is a Finnish World War II fighter aircraft originally developed by Valtion lentokonetehdas (VL) for the Finnish Air Force. The models of the aircraft were Myrsky I, Myrsky II and Myrsky III. The first Myrsky prototype (MY-1) flew on 23 December 1941. Photo by: Museum Centre Vapriikki (Tampere).

DND photo.

Mustang IIIs covered both the P-51B and P-51C variants and FX889 is a P-51B. It had served with 122 Sqn. It appears to be at Boscombe Down in connection with testing of the Malcolm Hood canopy developed in the UK and retrospectively fitted to RAF and USAAF P-51Bs and P-51Cs. FX889 went on to serve with 315 (Polish) Sqn. Struck off charge in 1947. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

DND photo.

DND photo.

Built as a Lancaster B.1 but converted to the prototype B.3 by fitting American-made Packard Merlins in place of Rolls-Royce Merlins. After further trials with a ventral turret, it was passed an operational conversion unit. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

This aircraft served successively with the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment, Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment and the Aircraft Torpedo Development Unit. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Used as a trials aircraft and was passed to the Norwegian air force after World War II. It retained the RAF serial and was lost when it crashed into the sea on November 14, 1949. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Postwar became an instructional airframe before being scrapped in 1951. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Lost on June 18, 1944 while on a mission over France while with 268 Sqn. The pilot bailed out and eluded capture until advancing US troops arrived. He was then sent back to the UK and then home to Canada. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

MP502 was delivered to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down. The aircraft is fitted with ASV Mark II anti-submarine radar, as shown by the "stickleback" aerial array on top of the fuselage. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Went on to serve with No. 659 (AOP) Squadron. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

DND photo.

DND photo.

405 Sun Halifax over England. DND photo

Originally designed by Bristol and first flown in March 1940, the Albemarle bomber featured nosewheel landing gear but was built of welded steel tubes and wood to conserve light alloys, and was adaped to serve as a transport and glider tug. 600 examples were manufactured by the AW Hawksley factory in Brockworth, set up by AW and Hawker Siddeley. This one was used by No 511 Sqn here at Lyneham for flights to Gibraltar. Photo by: W Bellamy / Imperial War Museums

The BT-12 production line inside the Fleetwings plant showing ships #9 thru #14 of a 24 ship order with serials 42-3684 to 3707 allocated. Serials 42-3708 thru 3883, which would have brought the order up to 200, were cancelled when the military decided they preferred the Vultee BT-13. Construction involved the extensive use of stainless steel, including for skin panels. The fuselage structure was made from carbon steel tube with stainless skin panels attached using "Shake-proof Fasteners" (probably what is known as quarter-turn fasteners today). The novelty of the design probably put the military off as being too different for maintenance to cope with.

The Fleetwings Model 36 was a plywood skinned aerial target which was given the military designation PQ-12A. It was powered by a Lycoming O-435 of 225 hp and could be manually flown for testing & evaluation when designated as the YPQ-12A (background). The protrusion hanging down from the right hand wing housed a TV camera that fed images to a mother-ship for remote guidance to intercept an enemy aircraft. In October 1943 the aircraft successfully downed a test drone over the Muroc Bombing and Gunnery Range by detonating a 500 lb bomb housed under the cockpit fairing. Note that the last two digits of the serial on the tail have been crudely changed from "49" to "45".