#RAF Cosford

[pianotunerwolverhampton]

Tuning a 'Bachmann' Grand Piano dating from the late 1940s at RAF Cosford, Shropshire.

#rafcosford #piano #pianist #music #pianotuner #pianotuning #musicians #bachmann #raf #pianotuners #albrighton #cosford #grandpiano

[tonyb-blog]

Royal Air Force Museum in the Midlands, visit to RAF Cosford

[amythehobbit]

RAF Cosford! If you want videos from the air show, you’ll find them on Twitter, IG & Facebook!

[nocternalrandomness]

RAF Jaquar at the 2015 Cosford Airshow

[spyskrapbook]

"RAF Cosford Air Show 2024" _ Cosford, Shifnal, TF11 8UP, Midlands, UK _ Sunday 09.06.2024 _ Photos & Red Arrows video by: Spyros Kaprinis [09.06.2024].

[usafphantom2]

Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 29 Sqn RAF Cosford Air Show 2023.

@CcibChris via X

[deweydecimalchickens]

So yeah, I escaped from Meriden! TL;DR: I managed 30.8 miles as the crow flies and 44 as the feet walk, getting from Meriden in Warwickshire to RAF Cosford in Shropshire. Technically I am now an ultramarathoner, having skipped the marathon stage.

Learnings:

My Hi Tec Raven boots are cute, cheap and vegan, but do not support my feet enough, even with Supafeet insoles. Thankfully my route took me past my house and I could swap to my battered old Peter Storms, which will never be waterproof again, but give my feet a good cuddle.

Plotting a route that went past my house was a stroke of genius. It added about five miles but meant I could switch to dry clothes and have an emergency nap. Also it turns out my cats cannot handle the timed feeder, psychologically.

I am a convert to using two lightweight walkimg poles, even if they left me with sore shoulders and blisters on my hands. 44 miles with poles felt a lot better than 25 without. Also a godsend for poking dodgy terrain in the dark before putting your feet on it.

Sometimes it's better to pee al fresco than go in the abandoned portaloo that's physically and spiritually a bit unstable.

People who do weird events are generally lovely. The pre-race briefing included a section dedicated to a guy last year who missed a tiny 'footpath closed' sign, fell in a construction mud pit, lost a shoe, and continued for a further 25 miles. At which point an angel watching the race randomly showed up to lend him shoes. And then the race director presented him with a brand new pair this year.

If you're gonna carry two litres of fluid on your back you should probably drink some of it in the first 15 miles or you don't get to wonder why you have a headache and brain fog.

Photos below the cut.

Cross at the centre of England; race start point. It's not a cross anymore because it's 500 years old.

Alright yeah let's do this!

Extremely cursed toilet. Or I pissed in the TARDIS. It was dark.

When I realised it was only 24 hours for drive thru and I'm not a car and there would not be coffee.

Radical Muslim found in Lozells. Must be one of those no-go areas of Birmingham I've heard about *rolls eyes*

More street art, this time in Handsworth, commemorating the 1976-7 Grunwick strike.

Dark again by the time I reached my fourth county (Warwickshire, West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire)

RAF Cosford inviting me to coffee in the community hub, behind barbed wire, under the Official Secrets Act.

Pathetically drinking vitamin/electrolyte juice in the train home.

[lovotomii]

whoever drew these at RAF Cosford please talk to me, I promise I won't personally persuade the C-in-C to court martial you or anything

[airmanisr]

WG760/7755M, EE P.1a, Henlow, October 1974 by Gordon Riley Via Flickr: On 4th August 1954 the English Electric P1 WG760 (later redesignated as the P1A) had its maiden flight at Boscombe Down, powered by two, non-afterburning Sapphire engines. Within 5 years the refined design emerged as the Lightning F1 powered by two afterburning Avons. Seen here on external display on the Parade Ground at Henlow, Beds, it is now displayed at the RAF Museum Cosford, as one of the Prototypes Hall.

[pianotunerwolverhampton]

Tuning a 'Weber' e-102 Upright Piano dating from 1989 at RAF Cosford, Shropshire.

#rafcosford #piano #pianist #music #pianotuner #pianotuning #musicians #weber #jones #raf #pianotuners

[nexi1066]

I visited RAF Cosford museum today

[ecoustsaintmein]

Sally B at Duxford, prior to taking flight to RAF Cosford on 9 June 2024.

Not pictured: Sally B crossing paths with Marinell, a P51 Mustang (that will be my next WIP)

[nocternalrandomness]

RAF KC3 MRTT - 2024 Cosford Airshow

[spyskrapbook]

"RAF Cosford Air Show 2024" _ Cosford, Shifnal, TF11 8UP, Midlands, UK _ Sunday 09.06.2024 _ Photos by: Spyros Kaprinis [09.06.2024].

[amythehobbit]

RAF Cosford souvenirs!

[usafphantom2]

The prototype Lightning P1A, WG760, on display at RAF Museum Cosford, England.

@ron_eisele via X