Come fly with me

 Its been a long held ambition to get to this place, RAF Cosford, so on a day that school declares and inset day yours truly loaded the car with RRMK2, the apprentice and MBAOSPW and headed to the museum via Supergrandma's house who joined us as shepherding three excited boys (guess who) around all this hardware needed help. The car park was full when we got there

 but straight away there were amazing planes to see, ones which I had only seen on Airfix boxes.

 Speaking of which the mess I make making models paled into insignificance

 compared to this scale of modelling.

 MBAOSPW found her favourite plane.

 I found a hi tec German interceptor

 and a very low tech recce helicopter.

 Iconic aircraft abound

 but

 the winner was obviously the Spitfire.

 RRMK2 played with his balls

 while the apprentice helped yours truly cross safely in front of tanks.

 This Vulcan was massive, but the wheels were tiny.

 The Scorpion tank, sold as surplus by the army under the strap line cheaper than a ford fiesta! I will have one one day.

 Arty farty shot.

 It has to be said that this was a very big display

 and everywhere you looked there were examples of brilliant aircraft.

 Thankfully RRMK2 didnt find the eject handle!

 He was very keen to learn the basics of flight.

 Back outside we looked at the bigger planes

 which included my personal favourite

the Fat Albert.