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#1 Post by admin » Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:34 pm

Got an additional link to an aviation museum or exhibition then just add it to this thread please.

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#2 Post by om15 » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:47 am

Not aviation, but still an interesting visit in Dorset

http://www.tankmuseum.org/home

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#3 Post by limeygal » Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:09 pm


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#4 Post by Sisemen » Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:19 pm

http://www.raafawa.org.au/museum/

An excellent museum with one of the only 2 Lancasters in Oz

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#5 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:08 pm

The Fleet Air Arm Museum - something new every time I go there:

Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset.

and at least once a year the reserve collection is open to the public:

Cobham Hall reserve collection

and in Yeovilton Village, the Fleet Air Arm's own Church, St Bartholomews or St Bart's to all ex FAA aircrew:

St Bartholomews, the Fleet Air Arm's Church, Yeovilton Village

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#6 Post by Woody » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:18 pm

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#8 Post by 500N » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:54 pm

RAAF Museum at Point Cook, Victoria, Australia

http://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/index.htm

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#9 Post by 500N » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:56 pm

Museum of Australian Army Flying, Oakey, Queensland, Australia
http://www.161recceflt.org.au/maaf/Homepage.htm

Australian Army Flying Museum, Oakey, Queensland, Australia
http://www.armyflyingmuseum.com.au/#intro

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#11 Post by Capetonian » Wed May 08, 2019 7:12 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aerospace_museums

Lists all aviation museums worldwide (or at least purports to do so!).

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#12 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed May 08, 2019 2:38 pm

https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/

They aren't allowed to fly their lanc, but they do day and night engine runups and one is allowed very close. It's quite something. Being ex-RAF, I was invited into the restoration workshop and spent a pleasant hour sipping coffee and nattering with the engine techies.

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#13 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed May 08, 2019 8:25 pm

Fox, I presume that is another one besides the flyable one.

Just Jane at East Kirkby is in strip rebuild with the intention to get it airworthy. When the Canadian one came over they staged a 3-ship, two airborne and one on ground run - 12 Merlins!

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#14 Post by Woody » Wed May 08, 2019 8:30 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Wed May 08, 2019 8:25 pm
Fox, I presume that is another one besides the flyable one.

Just Jane at East Kirkby is in strip rebuild with the intention to get it airworthy. When the Canadian one came over they staged a 3-ship, two airborne and one on ground run - 12 Merlins!
I went to that, when the PA announcer said the words “Ladies and Gentlemen 12 Merlins “ there wasn’t a dry eye in the house ^:)^
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#15 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed May 08, 2019 8:33 pm

Woody, I didn't but I have several photos if the pair over our house. Couldn't get them both in the frame complete. Very inconsiderate flying to low and close :)

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#16 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed May 08, 2019 10:46 pm

PN - Yes

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#17 Post by ian16th » Thu May 09, 2019 7:40 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Wed May 08, 2019 8:25 pm
Fox, I presume that is another one besides the flyable one.

Just Jane at East Kirkby is in strip rebuild with the intention to get it airworthy. When the Canadian one came over they staged a 3-ship, two airborne and one on ground run - 12 Merlins!
When I were a youngster, and at BCBS Lindholme, 1954-6, I didn't ever think that I would look back and remember those morning take off's for the sounds.

I heard dozens of Merlins every day for 2½ years.

There were 4 on each Lincoln.
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#18 Post by Pontius Navigator » Thu May 09, 2019 7:57 am

There is something about a piston coughing in to life. Taxying and slewing in to wind for run ups, firing up all the nav kit, checking it, then switching it off again.

All very strange getting into a jet, running all the kit on ground power, lighting the fire and breaks off.

Even stranger, Alison will remember, was the display scramble, sitting there, 28v on but no power sets running to create noise. Mass rapid start, breaks off, rolling and watching instruments coming to life hoping all 4 engines were burning and turning. Remember a Mk 1a lifting off on two, third just starting and fourth a little later.

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#19 Post by ian16th » Thu May 09, 2019 12:16 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Thu May 09, 2019 7:57 am
There is something about a piston coughing in to life. Taxying and slewing in to wind for run ups, firing up all the nav kit, checking it, then switching it off again.
The only times I ever called for and had 'Engine Runs', in attempts to reproduce snags was at Lindholme, usually on the Lincoln's.
If we Fairies asked for such, the Sooties almost fought each other for the job!

Things got so much smoother with jet engines.
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#20 Post by llondel » Thu May 09, 2019 2:37 pm

We went to this one ten years ago https://www.hiller.org/ just off US-101 in the Bay Area. I remember them having the front end of an ex-BA 747 as part of the display.

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