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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: mfg495 on September 29, 2007, 09:25:33 AM

Title: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on September 29, 2007, 09:25:33 AM

Here are some images of some of the smaller museums in the UK
all images (c) Google Earth

Berkshire Aviation Museum
Gatwick Museum (just outside the airport)
North East Aircraft Museum
Norwich Aviation Museum (next to Norwich airport)

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: No.1 on September 29, 2007, 10:13:23 AM

Great way to present museums- congratulation  :-clap

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: santynus on September 29, 2007, 12:52:52 PM

I agree with No.1 :-ok Bravo Mick  :-clap :-wave

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on September 29, 2007, 01:12:26 PM

Thank you  :-red

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: Bruno on November 05, 2007, 11:41:06 PM

Here is some planes at Le Bourget in France

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o319/SPA124BRUNO/LEBOURGET.jpg)

Bruno

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on November 06, 2007, 08:23:08 PM

well I know one aircraft, the Canberra at the center top. Greta find  :-ok

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: Leo on November 12, 2007, 05:05:56 AM

 :-wise

If you ever have the opportunity to visit the Wright Patterson Airbase near Dayton, Ohio you will see one of the world's great aircraft museums.  They even have an XB 70 here plus planes from almost very nation.
I recommend it highly.

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on December 12, 2007, 03:51:20 PM

In side there somewhere  :-ok

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on December 12, 2007, 04:11:53 PM

Found another one, will they found me (via my website). I'm off there this weekend to see their Canberra PR.7.

East Midlands AeroPark

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: No.1 on December 12, 2007, 05:35:19 PM

Is is Argosy in the center?

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on December 12, 2007, 05:42:26 PM

Quote from: No.1 on December 12, 2007, 05:35:19 PM

Is is Argosy in the center?

That's right  :-ok

Here's a link about the displays

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/c-e/eastmidsaeropark.htm

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: Wingman81 on December 15, 2007, 01:43:29 AM

Here is a display of Leo Junior Flugausstellung near Hermeskeil, Germany. I wanted to go there last summer but didnt make it. I want to do it in 2008 :-green

http://www.flugausstellung.de/luftaufnahmen.html

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: PV Chairman on December 21, 2007, 05:10:48 AM

Hello All,

Can someone please take a look at the Bournemouth Aviation Museum at Bournemouth Airport before it disappears forever? My computer cannot do it, perhaps one of you has the technical know-how and a good enogh computer too to be able to find it and post an image. Its post code, if it is of any help, is BH23 6SE (Dorset, England).

You should see a Harvard, yellow SAR Wessex helicopter, Provost, several Jet Provosts, and a variety of civil types in addition to the Museum's twin hangar.

Thanks,

PV Chairman.

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on December 21, 2007, 03:52:58 PM

Here we go...

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: No.1 on December 21, 2007, 03:55:01 PM

 :-clap :-clap

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: PV Chairman on December 22, 2007, 04:38:11 AM

That is wonderful, thank you thank you very much.

It makes me cry to see it. I wish that place could last forever, so many happy memories for me and my Dad there.

So that's what the camouflage pattern is on the top of the Meteor Mk.14! I never knew before.

Thanks again, you are wonderful mfg 495.

PV Chairman.

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: mfg495 on December 22, 2007, 02:59:05 PM

No problem my friend, I will be nice to know where the aircraft will go. Hopefully not to a scrap yard.

I see there are 2 Hunters
Canberra nose
Vulcan nose.
Meteor
Sea Vixen
Jet Prost
And I think a DH Vampire
Wessex SAR

There only the ones I can put names too.  :-wise

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: Wingman81 on December 22, 2007, 04:04:31 PM

http://aerofiles.com/museums.html

Title: Re: Small Aircraft Museums
Post by: PV Chairman on December 23, 2007, 02:41:10 AM

Thanks mfg495.

Yes you are right with your list, plus the Harvard, BAC One-Eleven, Herald, Chichester-Miles Leopard, Sea Prince, Pembroke, and several visitors (the Museum occupies part of an active ramp at the airport and so there are usually visiting aircraft). Inside are several other aircraft including a Dragon Rapide, JP, Polish-built MiG-17, Gnat, Buccaneer, second Chichester-Miles Leopard, etc, plus several aircraft undergoing maintenance by an engineering company (the site is shared by the Museum and several active companies). All in all a big shame that the whole lot has to go.

The irony is, Bournemouth Airport says it needs the room for the car park due to its expansion caused by growing passenger numbers. At the very moment that it says this, it loses two of its main customers, ThomsonFly and Air Berlin, both of which are pulling out. And so the airport will lose most of its business at the very point it starts to expand. Crazy.

PV Chairman.