These walk-around photos were taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 2018. They show a de Havilland Vampire T Mk 11, serial WZ590, the two-seat jet trainer variant of Britain's second operational jet fighter. The Vampire first flew in September 1943, powered by a single de Havilland Goblin turbojet in its distinctive egg-shaped fuselage, with twin booms carrying the tail — a layout dictated by the need to keep the exhaust as short as possible. Though it arrived too late to see combat in the Second World War, the Vampire became a mainstay of the post-war RAF and was the first British single-engine jet to enter squadron service. The T Mk 11 was a two-seat trainer derivative developed in the early 1950s, and over 700 were built for the RAF alone. WZ590 was built at Hawarden in 1952 and delivered to No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Leeming in November 1953, subsequently serving with No. 5 and No. 8 Flying Training Schools before being withdrawn from service in the early 1960s. It was later acquired by Hawker Siddeley Aviation with a view to possible foreign sales, and donated to the Imperial War Museum in 1973.