Science Museum aviation exhibits

Seeming as it was my (probably) last ever visit to the Science Museum today, thought i’d do my best to cover my favourite aviation exhibits there

SE5A fighter in civilian skywriting markings

Unlike the other Vimy’s around the world, this is a genuine one – this was the Vickers Vimy flown by Alcock and Brown non stop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919

Naked Fokker Eindecker

German Rumpler-Taube observation aircraft

Maurice-Farman shorthorn

Avro 504

Bleriot monoplane, as used by the BEF to spot the German forces before the Battle of Mons

Entrance to the fantastic ‘Dan Dare and the Birth of hi-tech Britain’ exhibition about technology in post-war Britain

Bloodhound Mk 1 anti-aircraft missile

Lockheed Electra

Spitfire canopy in the exhibition about plastics

Westland Pterodactyl

Supermarine racer

Hawker Hurricane Mk 1

Airship gondola car