March 10, 2017 at 3:03 pm

FREE UK Aviation Museums Guide!
Issue also features:
BROOKLANDS MUSEUM
A large-scale redevelopment programme is enhancing this hugely important heritage site in leaps and bounds
BELLANCA IRISH SWOOP
The Aeroplane dubbed it ‘the Shamrocket’ — sure enough, this MacRobertson air racer didn’t make the grade
NO 140 SQUADRON
Early WW2 photo-recce operations over Europe in Spitfires and Blenheims by the Army’s ‘aerial spies’
IWM IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE
The Imperial War Museum was founded 100 years ago. When it opened in 1920, it had a very special collection of Great War aircraft
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
DATABASE:
MORANE-SAULNIER MS406
The Armée de l’Air’s most numerous fighter during the Battle of France is examined in detail by Tony Holmes
WARBIRD HERITAGE FOUNDATION
We talk to the founder of this growing Illinois-based collection
DUXFORD’S EARLY MUSEUM YEARS
Without Dr Christopher Roads, IWM Duxford as we know it today may never have existed
AEROPLANE MEETS … BRIAN SMITH
The master showman of the air display scene’s most memorable massed Spitfire sequences
AND MUCH MORE!
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