Engins Matra AS37 AR Martel
The Martel AS37 air-to-surface missile is an anti-radar missile produced jointly by Britain and France. The solid-fuelled rocket, made by Engins Matra, uses aerodynamic control to home …
The Martel AS37 air-to-surface missile is an anti-radar missile produced jointly by Britain and France. The solid-fuelled rocket, made by Engins Matra, uses aerodynamic control to home …
The Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft was derived from the Comet airliner. It originally entered RAF service in 1969 in MR1 variant to replace the Avro Shackleton. From …
Hawker had been privately developing a vertical take off aircraft since the 1950s under the code of P.1127. The success of this private venture, and the subsequent …
The Landrover on display was issued for VIP duties with the Royal Air Force from April 1955.
Used throughout Royal Air Force maintenance depots, this vehicle was powered by a single-cylinder J.A.P. petrol engine. Other versions were powered by a Lister diesel engine. An …
This Morris Traveller, British Army, staff car was presented to the Museum by No. 24 Base Workshops; It was rebuilt by apprentices of 24 Base Workshop REME, …
This tractor was in general use throughout the Royal Air Force for moving small to medium-sized aircraft during the 1940s and 1950s. It could move an aircraft …
This vehicle, designated Mk1a by the Royal Air Force, is capable of pulling a load of up to 102 tons up an incline of 1:20. The tractor …
This post-war derivative of the Alvis 9ARS appeared in numerous sub-variants. The Leonides is a 9-cylinder, air-cooled single-row radial poppet-valve engine. The Leonides 503/7A, Mk 128 01/2, …
A 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine, the Leonides Major 755/1. Mk 155, 780hp seen here, is a medium supercharged, de-rated engine. It is an oblique, direct-drive helicopter engine …
The Mamba has virtually a straight-through air flow system, its diameter (less than 30ins measured over the cowling) is remarkably small and the frontal area only about …
The Sapphire engine is a turbojet with an axial-flow compressor and an annular combustion chamber of the Armstrong Siddeley vaporising type. It was the first British turbojet …
The Ghost is larger and more powerful than the Goblin and is again distinguished from the Goblin by having only 10 combustion chambers. The Ghost was developed …
In the race to get a viable engine from Whittle’s design, de Havilland were also asked to develop a gas turbine. Halford, de Havilland’s engine designer, used …