I wrote this a few years ago:
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Where???
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Bournemouth aviation museum. Its a tiny little place. But wonderfully run. Also saw an A340-600 landing across the road at the airport. A rare sight these days
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Looks like a great place – that propeller is crazy! Does is say it’s from a zeppelin?
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Yes indeed. It was fairly sizeable!
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Did you make it out with the cockpit on your trailer?
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Because it is the first photo, when I saw it and before I started scrolling down, my first thought was - “Ah, so that is the pivot he was talking about a few days ago”
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My recognition skills are failing me. That control column is very Hawker Hunter, but the glareshield and instrument and lights near the sight don’t look like the ones I have seen before (mainly the small number of RSAF Hunters that have been preserved here).
Is it a Hunter? Do you know what the instrument to the right of the gunsight was for? Is that a standard RAF fit?
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Yes its a hunter. I’m not sure what the fitted equipment was to be honest. But it was a test aircraft
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Ah, that’d explain it!
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Apparently I’m in a MIG-23, you can see MIG-21 outside on the right
Two last, still active Lim-2 (Polish built variant of MIG-15 bis)
and lastly the biggest boy - Su-22 Fitter
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How do you mean? Still active in the Polish AF?
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Hehe, no. Acitve in the sense that are still actually flying. Both are in private hands AFAIK.
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You could actually take a ride in the 2 seater for around 2,6k $
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Ok! I thought maybe the PoAF had something like the Swedish AF Historic Flight or something.
There’s a flying Lim-2 here in Norway too, although everybody calls it the MiG 
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Russian MIG-15s are also called MIG-15s in Poland. Lim-1 (MIG-15) Lim-2 (MIG-15bis) was built in Poland in Mielec factory. There was also Czechoslovakian version called CS-102 (based on MIG-15UTI).
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That’s actually a Lim-2 too! Wow, didn’t know about this. Those are probably the last Lim-2s still in flying state.
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There were three Lim-2s imported into Australia years ago, one is now on a pole at Archerfield, another went to the USA and I’m not sure what happened to the third.
All wore red stars when flying here, of course 
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There was one at Canberra Airport for a while, I think it was the same owner/owners who had the L-59?
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