These are some of the exhibits to be found at RAF Cosford (not far from Birmingham UK)

From the top (I think!) are:

the stainless steel Bristol 188

the Fairey Delta 2 which captured my schoolboy imagination when Peter Twiss cranked it up to 1132 mph (a then world record speed) in about 1957

detail of TSR 2

TSR 2

the "prone" Meteor

TSR 2 yet again

Vickers Valiant

Handley Page Victor

last night fighting version of the Gloster Meteor

MIG 15

English Electric Lightning

Catalina

and finally

two views of the graceful and beautiful de Havilland Comet

 

If I've got any of them wrong, don't tell me. 

Remember what Oscar Wilde said in "The Importance of being Earnest": 

Ignorance is like a ripe rare fruit.  Touch it and the bloom is gone!