Cornish museum artefacts go under the hammer

The contents of the now defunct Flambards Museum in Helston, Cornwall, were auctioned on March 26 and 27. While most of the aircraft departed several years ago, the museum housed the wooden development model of Concorde used for designing the cockpit’s final layout in conjunction with potential airline pilots. This full scale forward fuselage, which also features a section of passenger seating, sold for £17,000. Flambard’s Concorde development model sold for £17,000 Jeremy FlackA wooden half-scale Olympus 593 Concorde air