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Below A selection of cameras which were mounted in RAF aircraft for purposes of photo-reconnaissance.

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Below Navigational tools and log-book.

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Below A Fiesler Storch, the German STOL Army Co-operation aircraft

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Right A V-2 rocket mounted on an RAF carrier.DV00071.jpg (269502 bytes)

Below The Avro Lincoln heavy bomber of 1945

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Below Inside the bomb-bay of the Lincoln

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Below An Assortment of German missiles.

DV00111.jpg (268402 bytes) DV00112.jpg (259646 bytes) Left The Rheinmetall-Borsig Feuerlilie (Fire Lily) F 55 (Supersonic version) This is a ground to air missile, designed to have a maximum speed of 932 mph.

DV00113.jpg (236820 bytes) Left Top stage of a Rheinmetall-Borsig Rheinbote (Rhine Messenger). Ground to ground multi-stage rocket This could carry 40kg of explosive for 136 miles at a maximum speed of 3,663 mph.

DV00114.jpg (258561 bytes)Left The bottom stage of the Rheinbote (Right) and a Rheinmetall-Borsig Rheintochter (Rhine Maiden) ground to air missile.

DV00115.jpg (260370 bytes) Left Rheintochter top stage.

DV00116.jpg (255707 bytes)Left The front stage of a V-2 and the Messerschmitt Enzian subsonic ground to air missile.

DV00120.jpg (270129 bytes) Left The X-4 guided air-to-air missile.

DV00127.jpg (259845 bytes) Left The X-1 (Fritz X) controlled free-fall anti-shipping bomb.

DV00119.jpg (252050 bytes)Left The BV-246 "Hagelkorn" glide bomb. 

 

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