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Rare Dornier wing section to go on display at the RAF Museum in early 2025

Alastair — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:06:44 +0000

Plans are underway at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands* for the wing section of an iconic Second World War Dornier Do 17 to go on public display in early 2025. Salvaged after more than 70 years submerged beneath the waters of the Goodwin Sands, this unique artefact offers visitors a special glimpse into the […]

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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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Spring cleaning at the RAF Museum Midlands

Alastair — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:57:04 +0000

Remember those times when you had to dust the Airfix models suspended from your bedroom ceiling, without breaking anything or dislodging them and sending them plummeting to the floor? Well, at it’s pretty much the same thing at the RAF Museum Midlands (Cosford)… only on a larger scale! Suspended from the ceiling, up to 100ft […]

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Sole-surviving Bristol Blenheim to visit Bicester Heritage’s Flywheel event

Alastair — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:52:32 +0000

Bicester Heritage’s Flywheel, a 2-day festival of classic vehicles and historic aircraft, will have a special visitor this year. The sole-surviving airworthy Bristol Blenheim L6739 will be leading the aviation display on their grass airfield. Bicester Heritage is a collection of 50 different businesses specialising in historic vehicles, all gathered together at RAF Bicester, a […]

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Hawker Hurricanes on show at IWM Duxford

Alastair — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 13:53:35 +0000

IWM Duxford opened a new temporary exhibition last week (27 Dec) highlighting the role Hawker Hurricanes played during WW2. Hurricane: Unsung Hero features seven aircraft – quite a significant gathering considering there are now only 14 airworthy Hawker Hurricanes in the world. They include four Hurricane Mk 1s, a Mk 2 B (2-seater), a Mk […]

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RAF Museum Cosford wins Heritage Lottery funding for new developments

Alastair — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:45:03 +0000

The Royal Air Force Museum has been awarded investment funds from The National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund for its Inspiring Everyone: RAF Museum Midlands Development Programme. The programme is designed to enhance visitor engagement at its RAF Cosford site in the Midlands*, with an immersive exhibition area exploring today’s RAF, a new Learning Centre that […]

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Bristol Blenheim

Alastair — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:02:52 +0000

The twin-engine Bristol Blenheim was the RAF’s primary light bomber at the start of WW2. This one, a Blenheim IV, is on display at the RAF museum in Hendon. (When we can get to see it!) The Bristol Blenheim – or ‘Bolingbroke’ if you were flying the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) version made under […]

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The Fabulous Napier Sabre Aero Engine

Alastair — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:36:48 +0000

You’ve gotta love it! What a spectacular piece of engineering the Napier Sabre is! At least, what a spectacular engineering concept. Sadly its early iterations at the start of WW2 weren’t always the finest examples of engineering quality control when they went into production. So they weren’t always the most reliable engines, but later versions […]

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Review: Royal Air Force Museum, London

Alastair — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:51:37 +0000

It’s been a few years since I last visited the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, North London, and I certainly haven’t visited since the recent Lottery Heritage funded re-development for the 100th Anniversary of the RAF this year. Ridiculous really, since I live in North London! I went to the sister museum at RAF […]

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Messerschmitt ME 410

Alastair — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:18:37 +0000

I’d always been aware of the Messerschmitt 410 but had ‘parked’ it in my mind as a mostly developmental aircraft with low numbers going into production for specialised roles, and that’s the way I still thought of it when I found this one a few years ago at the RAF Cosford museum. But recently I’ve […]

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