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Aircraft paint coatings have to be of a very high quality since they will have to last for a long time under extremely severe temperature and weather conditions. Aircraft paints already met very high standards for many years. A company like the Dutch Sikkens already developed a generation of durable aircraft paints as early as [...]

Bournemouth Aviation Museum is the only UK Charitable Museum dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public at large, amongst others, operational examples of historic aircraft appreciated by the many hundreds of thousands attending UK airshows.

Bournemouth Aviation Museum
Bournemouth Aviation Museum occupies a 30,000 sq ft hanger at Bournemouth International Airport and is run entirely by [...]

The Gatwick Aviation Museum is located on the boundary of London Gatwick Airport in the village of Charlwood, Surrey. Originally started in 1987 by Peter Vallance a local businessman as a private collection. It became a registered charity in 1999 with the objective of providing awareness of local aviation history and as an educational centre [...]

MM.2 is the advanced trainer designed by ing. Milosevic. This was result of the fact that in the mid thirties trainer airplanes in the Yugoslav Kingdom had their maximum speed of around 200 km/h and the modern combat planes are double faster. This means that new trained pilot is not prepared for the flying on [...]

One of the many of museums in the UK is this small one- City of Norwich Aviation Museum. This Museum is located just off the A140 Norwich to Cromer road, on the north side of Norwich airport. This nice small collection have following airplanes present on images bellow:

Lightning
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star s/n 51-6718, Dassault Mystere [...]

Images of the various combat planes, starting with Albatros WW1 combat plane up to the modern jet age. Most of the images show German airplanes and prototypes. Images bellow present following types:

Seahawk
Albatros D.12, Avro Arrow, B-25 Michell MLD, BAC Lightning and Soviet Tupolev Bear, Fairey Firefly Turget Tug MLD, Fokker C.Vd, Hawker Hunter T.7 KLU, [...]

North Weald is not so well known as places such as Biggin Hill & Duxford but was active during World War II, It is not very far from Duxford. There are several companies based at North Weald such as Aces High & Kennet Aviation who own and operate a collection of warbirds. The two Douglas [...]

Here are some photos Robert took of Douglas C-54D Skymaster s/n 56498 taken at North Weald in June 2006 and this is the favorite plane of the author.

Douglas Skymaster
Airplane show very simple but effective color scheme, typical for the time when it served. The sample on the images served in the United States Air Force [...]

Here are some of my photos from Duxford. Being a friend of Duxford is a way of contributing financially to the museum Duxford is home to quite a few aircraft collections including the Imperial War Museum, Duxford Aviation Society, The Fighter Collection, The Old Flying Machine Company, American Air Museum.
Saab Draken s/n 35075, North American [...]