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Gloster Meteor F8 Prone on loan to Newark Air Museum

Alastair — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:17:06 +0000

You could say, the Newark Aviation Museum is having a bit of a lie down! The museum has just been loaned the extraordinary Gloster Meteor F8 Prone, which has been on display at the RAF Museum, Cosford* for many years. The Meteor F8 Prone was built in 1952 for the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine […]

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Air & Space Museum, Le Bourget, Paris

Alastair — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:07:40 +0000

The Air & Space Museum (Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace), sprawled around the magnificent art deco terminal building at Paris’ former passenger airport, Le Bourget, is France’s premier aviation museum. It’s huge, and well worth the journey to the outskirts of Paris to visit. Only, make sure you set aside plenty of time because […]

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Review: Hanover Aviation Museum

Alastair — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:48:54 +0000

The Laatzen-Hanover Aviation Museum (Laatzen-Hannover Luftfahrt Museum), to give it its full name, is not a huge museum but it’s a really interesting aviation museum and it packs a lot – some 4,000+ artefacts – into its 3,500 m² of display space. The museum was founded by a businessman, Günter Leonhard, who was obsessed with […]

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Restored Wellington Bomber moved into RAF Museum Display Hall

Alastair — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:57:45 +0000

A World War II Vickers Wellington bomber has been restored to its former glory after 12½ years of conservation at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands (Cosford)*. The Wellington, one of only two remaining in the UK (the other is at Brooklands Museum), was finally moved last week (19 April) from the Conservation Centre at […]

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Review: Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum

Alastair — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:32:25 +0000

The Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum is a treasure trove of aviation history, all crammed into a small site, and definitely worth a long visit, or two, to do it justice. The museum started life in 1972 as the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Society, a small group of aviation enthusiasts who started building a collection […]

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Review: 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at Thorpe Abbotts

Alastair — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:35:58 +0000

With the upcoming Masters of the Air mini-series due for release soon****, the Memorial Museum for the USAAF 100th Bomb Group at their former base at Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk, is likely to become the focus for a lot of attention. Masters of the Air is the third in Tom Hanks & Stephen Spielberg’s WW2 […]

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Review: Salis Flying Museum, France

Alastair — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:19:51 +0000

The Salis Flying Museum (Musée Volant Salis) has an amazing collection of around 50* historic aircraft at its hilltop airfield, 35 kms south of Paris. It’s the drip trays you notice. Drip trays are a rare sight in most aviation museums because, before they go on static display, aircraft are drained of any fluids that […]

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New Aviation Museum in British Columbia

Alastair — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:49:08 +0000

The KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence has unveiled its plans for a new aviation museum and conference centre at Kelowna International Airport. Site preparation work will start this autumn on the site on Lapointe Drive beside the Kelowna International Airport, across the road from their current airfield facilities. For half a century, KF Aerospace has […]

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Review: National Museum of Flight, Scotland

Alastair — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:59:52 +0000

"To be of full value to its user, a parachute must inspire absolute and implicit confidence in its correct functioning." - Air Ministry Manual. A masterclass in under-statement!

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Review: RAF Cosford Museum

Alastair — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:33:02 +0000

RAF Cosford is still an operational airbase and most importantly, it’s the home of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE), which sets the tone & style for the museum and gives it a unique atmosphere. It’s not that in Hangar 1, for example, you’ll find loads of engines, failed sections from the infamous Comet […]

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