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Amazing! Thanks for the PM on this.

Thanks, I am sure this will help, but I certainly see what people say about Black Box instructions - they really aren't that clear!

There is also a Griffon 57A (used in the Avro Shackleton) on display next to the Spitfire. However, the F.24 used a Griffon 61 that has a two-speed, two-stage supercharger with aftercooler.

More photos from my series of posts from my visit to The Royal Air Force Museum London in 2022, and the second set of walkaround images. These are of the Supermarine Spitfire F.24 PK724, part of the "War in the Air 1918–1980" exhibit in Hangars 3, 4, and 5. I was not able to get access to the cockpit to take any photos. PK724 was built in 1946 and only had seven flying hours before it was declared a “non-effective airframe” and moved to RAF Norton, Sheffield for instructional use and then as a gate guardian at RAF Gaydon, Warwickshire. It almost participated in the Battle of Britain film but ended up not being rebuilt to flying condition for that. In 1971 it was moved to the RAF Museum. It is one of only three surviving Spitfire F.24s. This info and more about the history of this airframe was taken from: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-22-Spitfire-24-PK724.pdf Thanks for looking, and I have many more pictures to share

Supermarine Southampton Mk. I N9899 (restored hull) The Southampton flying boat was one of the most successful ever used by the RAF. With a reputation for reliability, its service life of eleven years was surpassed only by that of the Sunderland. This restored hull is one of the eighteen produced wooden-hulled Southampton Mk. I aircraft. After it parted its moorings in gale and was wrecked on the breakwater at Portland, the hull was sold off in 1929 to be used as a houseboat. Recovered by the RAF in 1967, restoration started in 1984 and was completed in 1995. More info about the history of this airframe is available here: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/67-A-705-Supermarine-Southampton.pdf Supermarine Stranraer 920/CF-BXO (restored, sole surviving example) The Stranraer was the final development of the Southampton flying boat to be put into production and was one of the world’s last biplane flying boats. The Stranraer was built in greater numbers and had a longer service life outside the United Kingdom than with the RAF. Selected by the RCAF, the type was put into production by Canadian Vickers who built forty, with this airframe as an example. In service with the RCAF, it flew with several squadrons, on anti-submarine patrols, as a training aircraft, and carrying passengers. In 1944, it was disposed of and then flown by various Canadian airlines until 1952. It then flew with various other private owners until it was damaged by a ship in 1966. In 1970, it was bought by the RAF Museum. More info about the history of this airframe is available here: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/70-AF-645-Stranraer.pdf

Lockheed Hudson Mk. IIIA A16-199 (restoration) The Lockheed Hudson was a military version of the American Lockheed 14 Super Electra airliner and was ordered for the Royal Air Force in June 1938. Hudsons entered service with Coastal Command in 1939. The Hudson had a Boulton Paul dorsal turret, but these were removed when many were sold to civil operators after the war. This particular RAAF airframe has quite an eventful history, shooting down a Japanese Pete floatplane and Sally bomber during the war. After a long civil service, it was then sold to the Strathallan Collection in 1973 and flown 12,000 miles in 73 flying hours from Charleville, Australia to the Strathallan airfield, near Auchterarder in Scotland, with stops in 12 countries along the way. More info about the history of this airframe is available here: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/81-AF-1057-Hudson-111A-A16-199.pdf

Bristol Beaufort Mk. VIII (composite restoration) The Bristol Beaufort was the only monoplane produced for the Royal Air Force that was designed from the start to satisfy the dual role of general reconnaissance and torpedo bomber. This Beaufort Mk. VIII is a composite restoration assembled from Australian-built components from several recovered wrecks found in Papua New Guinea. Although assembled from Mk. VIII components the aircraft has had a rudder profile and other changes including undercarriage doors to make it externally represent Mk. IIA aircraft DD931, issued to No.42 Squadron, whose colours it now wears, Aug 42. More info about the history of this airframe is available here: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/1994-1345-A-Beaufort-VIII-DD931.pdf

I am continuing my series of posts of photos from my visit to the RAF Museum in London in 2022. You can see my second post here, featuring Part 1 of the aircraft in Hangar 3. This set continues to cover the "War in the Air 1918–1980" exhibit in Hangars 3, 4, and 5. For certain aircraft where I have taken enough pictures to warrant a walkaround, I will post more images in a separate thread, such as this one for the Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib. Thanks for looking at these pictures -- Alex. Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk. X RD253 (restoration) The Beaufighter was the first high-performance night fighter equipped with airborne interception radar and successfully operated against the German night raids in the winter of 1940-1941. Later the Beaufighter was introduced into Coastal Command as a strike fighter. Its original formidable gun armament was retained but rockets and torpedoes were added giving it even greater firepower. This TF Mk. X example was built in 1944 and served in the Portuguese Naval Air Arm (Forcas Aereas da Armada) starting in March 1945. It was resented to the RAF for preservation in 1965. More info about the history of this airframe is available here: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-13-Beaufighter-X-RD253.pdf

Continuing my series of posts of photos from my visit to the RAF Museum in London in 2022, here is the first set of walkaround images. These are of the Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib MN235, part of the "War in the Air 1918–1980" exhibit in Hangars 3, 4, and 5. A few of the pictures are duplicates from my initial post of photos from this exhibit, apologies. Also, I did not have access to take any pictures of the cockpit, and unfortunately for this aircraft, I did not spend enough time focusing in on the details such as the landing gear, etc. MN235 is the sole surviving complete Typhoon and was built in 1944 by the Gloster Aeroplane Co Ltd. Instead of seeing active service, it was allocated to the USA for flight evaluation, in response to a USAAF requirement to investigate the Typhoons' potential as a fighter-bomber and to increase its fuel capacity. The aircraft was evaluated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Due to changing requirements, the Typhoon did not undertake the test program originally envisaged, and following a minor accident after only nine hours of flying was put into storage. This info and more about the history of this airframe was taken from: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-27-Typhoon-MN235.pdf Thanks for looking and I have many more photos to share

I've only scratched the surface too -- tons more to come, including lots and lots of F-4 Phantom FGR.2 pics, Beaufighter, Beaufort, B-17, P-51, Vulcan, Mosquito, Lancaster, Tempest V, EE Lighting, Gulf War Buccaneer, some axis planes, and many more.

I've added more pictures since you sent this reply

The entire Google Photos album from this part of the RAF Museum "War in the Air 1918–1980" exhibit can be found here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YqrcVjaX374R3PTz5 I'll be sharing more photos soon Thanks, Alex.

Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe (static composite reconstruction that incorporates some 40% original components) The The Snipe was designed as the successor to the immortal Camel with some reaching the Western Front from September 1918 proving to be highly successful. Around 100 were in service by the Armistice and when production ended in September 1919 over 2000 had been built, many going straight into storage never to enter service although Snipes did serve with twenty RAF Squadrons from 1919. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/X006-0349-Sopwith-Snipe-Composite.pdf Supermarine Spitfire F Mk. 24 PK724 (restored) The Spitfire F24 was the ultimate development of the type, but the advent of the jet fighter meant that only small numbers were built and even fewer went into Royal Air Force service. The last major production Spitfire was the F.22. The F.24 differed only in the smallest of details and only seventy F.24s were completed and most went into store although No.80 Squadron was fully equipped with the type. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-22-Spitfire-24-PK724.pdf [I have enough pictures of this airframe that I will also post a separate walkaround] Rolls-Royce Griffon MK 57A Taylorcraft Auster Mk.I LB264 (restored) This design originated with a pre-war American light cabin monoplane of 1938 built in England under licence. Successful trials with impressed civilian Taylorcraft Plus D aircraft by the Army for artillery spotting duties led to the introduction of the first fully militarised Taylorcraft, the unarmed two-seat Auster I. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/X002-9988-TAYLORCRAFT-AUSTER-1-LB264.pdf

Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib MN235 (restored, the sole surviving complete Typhoon) Originally designed as a twelve-gun fighter, the Typhoon was intended to be the successor to the Hurricane. It suffered many development problems both with the airframe and its twenty-four-cylinder Napier Sabre engine. At the time of its introduction in 1941, it was the first 400mph fighter in the RAF and proved a match for the low-level tip-and-run Focke-Wulf Fw190s. It was, however, in the low-level close support role that the Typhoon excelled. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-27-Typhoon-MN235.pdf [I have enough pictures of this airframe that I will also post a separate walkaround] North American Harvard IIb FE905 (restored) The North American Harvard trainer was built in greater numbers than most combat aircraft during World War Two, with 17,096 being produced. By the end of the War over 5000 had been supplied to British and Commonwealth Air Forces. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/85-AF-1356-Harvard-IIB-FE905.pdf Republic Thunderbolt Mk. II/P-47D-40 (restored in the SEAC markings of KL216) The Thunderbolt was one of the three most important American fighters produced during the war and saw extensive service with the United States Army Air Force before its comparatively late introduction into RAF operational service in 1944. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/1994-1337-A-P-47-Thunderbolt-KL216.pdf

I am continuing my series of posts of photos from my visit to the RAF Museum in London in 2022. You can see my first post here featuring the WWI aircraft in Hangar 2. As mentioned before, I've only recently gotten around to sorting through my collection, and I thought I’d share the pictures I took with everyone here. I'm going to break down my posts by hangar/exhibit and share pictures of each aircraft on display. The next exhibit I am going to cover is "War in the Air 1918–1980" in Hangars 3, 4, and 5. As there are so many aircraft on display, I am going to break this exhibit into multiple posts, with this the first. For certain aircraft where I have taken enough pictures to warrant a walkaround, I will also put up separate posts for those and submit them to also be added to the LSP website Walkaround section. The images I will post are highlights of the exhibit (on Flickr), and for those of you interested in seeing all the pictures I took at each exhibit (100s for each) at full resolution, I'll add a link to the applicable Google Photos album at the end of each post. The Google albums will have additional non-aircraft pictures and images of the museum placards with more detailed descriptions of each plane. Bristol Bulldog Mk. IIa G-ABBB (static restoration) The Bristol Bulldog was the RAF fighter of the early 1930s. It was the standard Royal Air Force fighter, equipping ten of its thirteen home defence Squadrons. In 1964, this aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Air Show and the aviation world thought the aircraft was beyond recovery. The RAF Museum, however, recovered the wreckage and in 1994 finally was able to place the contract to rebuild this aviation classic. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/1994-1386-A-Bristol-Bulldog.pdf Curtis Kittyhawk Mk. IV (static composite reconstruction) The Kittyhawk was the final development of the monoplane Curtiss Hawk fighters and during World War Two provided the RAF with valuable reinforcements in the Middle East. This is a composite reconstruction from recovered P-40 wrecks from New Guinea and represents a Kittyhawk IV (P-40N) in RAF service with a lengthened fuselage and redesigned canopy. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/1994-1347-A-Curtiss-Kittyhawk-FX670.pdf de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 (Mk. 10) WP962 The Chipmunk was designed and produced in Canada, with Chipmunk T.10 examples being manufactured in the UK as the Royal Air Force’s primary trainer. This example is one of the two Chipmunks that circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere as part of "Exercise Northern Venture." The flight lasted 64 days and covered 16,259 miles, visiting 62 airfields en route. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/X002-3448-Chipmunk-WP962.pdf Hawker Hart II G-ABMR (restored, airworthy when presented to the museum in 1972) First flown in July 1928, the Hart day bomber was one of the most advanced aircraft of its time with exceptional capability. Although designed as a bomber it had a performance superior to any fighter aircraft then in existence. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-29-Hawker-Hart-II-G-ABMR.pdf Hawker Hunter FGA.9 XG154 (restored, repainted into 8/43 Squadron Khormaksar markings at RAF St Athan) The Hunter was the first high-speed jet fighter with radar and fully-powered flying controls to go into widespread service with the Royal Air Force. More info on this airframe: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/1990-0698-A-Hunter-FGA9-XG154.pdf