Starting with WW1: Fokker Dr1 RE8 Bristol Fighter Farman? Voisin? Sopwith 1 ½ Strutter Spad Sopwith Camel Halberstalt? ? Ju52 T-33 Harvard ? MiG23 ‘Flogger’ A helicopter I forget the name of Bofors 40mm Phantom Arrestor hook & engine SAAB Draken MiG17 (the bottom picture may be a Mig15 – it was too far back to tell) Aeritalia G9 F-86 Sabre This is the view through the front air intake. Note – the engine is not there… ? Dassult ‘thingy’ – I can’t remember… Hind A brace of Meteors Thunderchief Thunderstreak Caravelle Canadair ‘thingy’ – I can’t remember Starfighter Mirage F5 Spitfire Mk.14 Vampire Airspped Oxford & DC3 Flying Boxcar Invader – with 6 mgs in the wings + 8 in the nose! Fairey Battle Mosquito Blenhiem Hurricane Spitfire MkV Miles Magister? ? Tiger Moth Storch Bf-108 Morane-Saulnier ?? ? – early flying boat Augusta Helicopter Piper Cubs Assorted gliders Percival ‘thingy’ - ? Stinson? They also had lots of interesting ‘bits & pieces’… Lancaster nose turret Gun pod – from Bf-109? Bf-109 engine No information, just this… WW2-era, German, carried by planes… What is it? From shot-down aircraft: Fw-190 propellor B-17 engine & undercarriage P-47 engine They also had a Ju-88 landing gear leg (with tyre) that was washed up on the Belgian coast in the 1970s!! Oh, and propaganda posters… All pictures at http://tanksww2f.chollie.co.uk/files/Brussels/
Great collection of pictures there. The Helicopter looks like a Westland Wessex to me, the MiG-17 looks more like a MiG-15 too. As for the unknown WW2 era German device, I thought it looked like a submunitions dispenser of some description so I had a look on the warbirds resource group. It looks similar to the AB 1000-2 container desribed here: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ab1000-2.htm but without fins. The weights seem a little out, to be honest I'm not too up on WW2 bomb types, but except that it probably isn't an exact match for the AB 1000-2 it seems probable that it's a submunitions dispenser of types. I reckon the gun pack is possibly from a Fw190, the reason being in cut-aways I've seen the outer cannon on the later Fw190s could be removed and replaced by a pair on each wing (Minus 1 cannon, plus 2 per wing), Bf109s could usually have single underwing cannon mounted on each wing.
I tried to find out wich MiG it was on the Museum's site...no luck http://www.klm-mra.be/ The MiG-17 (the first one) is a 17 (it's a Lim-5 as it's Polish) and the second one looks like a 15 (but hey those to look almost the same from the front)...maybe it's polish...a lim-1 Mig-15 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 15_RB1.jpg Mig-17 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... -5_RB1.jpg
The MiG that can only be seen from the front is visable from the side in the picture of the Bofors gun. I think it might be a -15...
Would be the most logical to..a 17 and a 15 (why would you want 2 -17's?)! BTW forgot to say nice pics...makes me want to go to Brussel meself (nice collection altough like many museums not all is well maintained)!
I recall the sign saying that the gun carriage you photographed was indeed from a BF109. However, I recognize it from one of my models, but then it was mounted on a FW180 nightfighter... clueless...
The Canadair THINGY is a CF-100 Canuck, built by Avro Canada, not Canadair. There is a chance that the F-86 THINGY, or the T-33 THINGY, or the F-104 Starfighter THINGY, or the F-5 THINGY (whoops, no picture of that or the Canso PBY built by Canadian Vickers/Canadair) were built by Canadair, but no the CF-100. Excuse my preoccupation with THINGY, it just hurts seeing an airplane (especially a Canadair airplane) referred to as a THINGY!
I do beg your pardon, I was in rather a hurry when I wrote the post I will be going back & editing the names when I get the chance
Ricky: Superb collection of aircraft--and photos--thanks for sharing. I especially loved that Mosquito, though I prefer the machine-gun solid-nose over the clear-nose version. (Was that example a pathfinder?) One minor correction... The subject you refer to as a Thunderchief is in fact an F-84 Thunderstreak. Tim
The Farman?(4th pic) is a Caudron G3 You can actually see it on it's tail! http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/caudron-g3.htm This one: http://tanksww2f.chollie.co.uk/files/Br ... 260185.JPG Is a Yak-11 The F-105 Thunderchief is a RF-84 Thunderflash...
And searching for more questions to be answered (i was lokking for the Bi-plane wich i new was a Stampe or something like it) i found this page.... http://www.targeta.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... museum.htm
My apologies, unsuccessful attempt at humor. You went to the museum, you took the pictures, you posted them for everyone else to enjoy, go ahead and call them anything you want!
