Little gems

This sounds like exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about, unfortunatly it is a little too far to travel for a day trip! :rolleyes:

It’s good to hear that there are some totally unique exibits at NEAM, I would love to pop down for a visit but the 250 miles does pose a small problem! 🙁

In your opening post, you asked a question about museums, with no mention of whether or not they would be within walking distance of where you live? :rolleyes:

Interesting small exhibits

Try the RAF Millom Museum:
Record breaking Swift WK198 (rather large really), F-4 Phantom nose ex-USNavy Black Bunny aircraft (now 41 years old and also rather large) 40-odd aero engines from a Cirrus Hermes to the mighty Centaurus and the Wright Turbo-Compound, FA-330 Gyroglider, Balliol and Firefly cockpits, Spitfire simulator, complete Gloster Meteor Mk.8 under restoration, EP-9 Prospector cockpit, Merlin, R-2800 and R-1830 engine restorations, Flying Flea, 2 x Jetstream, Shorts 360, Percival Prince and much, much more (how much more could you possibly want?!).
Well, what yer waiting for…………………

See website for contact details. Open any time by arrangement.

It’s good to hear that there are some totally unique exibits at NEAM, I would love to pop down for a visit but the 250 miles does pose a small problem! 🙁

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soooo predictable….

Hello Lindy’s Lad, I wondered how long it’d be before you payed me a visit! :p

North East Aircraft Museum:

The only F86D in the UK – not only that, its one of the ‘Sabre Knights’ display team (and is slowly being restored to those colours)

The only complete Canberra TT18 still in its target tug colours. (I think its the only one, but I stand to be corrected)

A sectioned Gloster Gladiator engine (cut vertically down the middle – a work of art)

Greek AF F84 (next to the f86D…..

Tail end of a Heinkel 111 in original (crashed) condition

Next time you go to the NMUSAF in Dayton go to Carrolion (SP?) Historic Park which is made up of many old buildings relocated and restored to show the area’s history. (My favorite is a restored circa 1910 Packard auto dealership which is now the Packard Club’s national museum…there’s also a log cabin, built circa 1800 when Ohio was considered the frontier. It was the first structure built in the area and variously served as a pub, inn, jail, store, etc. Looks like something out of The Last of the Mohicans.)

There is a specially constructed building where you can view (at very close detail and from 360 degrees) the Wright Brother’s 1905 Flyer.
It’s considered their first practical (more controllable on all three axis than the 1903 design) aircraft…
It was restored decades ago (perhaps when Orville was still living) and in in beautiful shape.
You get much better view of it than you do its older sister at the NASM in Washington.

Not something you’d exect to see outside of a major air/science/history museum.

This sounds like exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about, unfortunatly it is a little too far to travel for a day trip! :rolleyes:

Solent Sky has the only remaining piece of Seagull III (I think that’s right)

It is on loan from one of the bigger museums (namely the Fleet Air Arm Museum) so not sure it meets the criteria laid down by WP840 🙂

That said i have to say I would have had no idea myself if I had not just googled it to see if I could find any pictures!

Jon

Next time you go to the NMUSAF in Dayton go to Carrolion (SP?) Historic Park which is made up of many old buildings relocated and restored to show the area’s history. (My favorite is a restored circa 1910 Packard auto dealership which is now the Packard Club’s national museum…there’s also a log cabin, built circa 1800 when Ohio was considered the frontier. It was the first structure built in the area and variously served as a pub, inn, jail, store, etc. Looks like something out of The Last of the Mohicans.)

There is a specially constructed building where you can view (at very close detail and from 360 degrees) the Wright Brother’s 1905 Flyer.
It’s considered their first practical (more controllable on all three axis than the 1903 design) aircraft…
It was restored decades ago (perhaps when Orville was still living) and in in beautiful shape.
You get much better view of it than you do its older sister at the NASM in Washington.

Not something you’d exect to see outside of a major air/science/history museum.

Solent Sky has the only remaining piece of Seagull III (I think that’s right)