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This aviation museum is located a few miles east of Edinburgh on a former RAF airfield.

Visible in this photo, clockwise from top-left: A BAC 111 airliner; an F4 Phantom and a Blackburn Buccaneer; a SEPECAT Jaguar (partly hidden and in desert camouflage); a de Havilland Comet 4 and lastly a AVRO Vulcan B2 which was involved in attacking Argentine forces in The Falkland Islands in 1982. (Beside the Vulcan is a Blue Steel stand-off nuclear-tipped missile, which the Vulcan was designed to carry.)

In hangars there are many more aircraft, some historic and also Concorde G-BOAA.

The airfield itself is historic in that in 1919 the British airship R34 made the first airship crossing of the Atlantic, flying from East Fortune to Mineola, New York.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Fortune" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Fortune</a>

The only active aviation that now takes place here is a small area where Microlight aircraft fly from and it's from there that my photo flight was flown.
Date Taken on 8 August 2015, 17:21
Source Museum of Flight, Scotland
Author Mike McBey
Camera location56° 00′ 01.58″ N, 2° 44′ 15.33″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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