We are very grateful that the RAF Museum have gifted us the Santos-Dumont Demoiselle replica, which we have borrowed in the past to help tell the story of the 1910 Flying Meeting at Dunstall Park, Wolverhampton. We now have the considerable task of manufacturing all the flying wires needed to assemble it. We also acquired Gerry Breen’s hang glider, in which he made the first flight from the top of Ben Nevis, carrying Royal Mail First Day Covers.
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Additionally the Boulton Paul Association let us have their Boulton Paul Type E turret (Halifax tail), which is a restored original cupola with a mock-up inside, and sits alongside our own complete Type D turret.
Everything will be on show on 21st August on our ATC Day when we celebrate 75 Years of the Air Training Corps. The ‘static park’ outside will include an erected Grasshopper, on its Pendleboek tripod, the Demoiselle, the ATC’s Chipmunk cockpit and our Tiger Cub, Black Adder. There will be a total of 6 cockpits open to the public
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August 13, 2016 at 8:50 pm