The Helicopter Museum

1. Wessex
2. Royal Flight Wessex
3. WG-30 Prototype
4. WG-30 stored
5. WG-30 200 series Prototype
6. WG-30 300 series Prototype
7. WG-30 300 series Prototype
8. WG-30 Plaything
9. View of the storage area.

And that’s your lot.

Last few

A few of the “minor” types and some more of the “major types”

1. Gyro glider & Gyro boat
2. Bo.102 Helitrainer
3. Bo.105 pod
4. Cougar
5. Gyro glider
6. Autogyro
7. Sycamore
8. Wasp
9. Wessex
10. Wessex

I have a picture of my daughter Victoria in the black and white strips one !! a nice museum, like watching them fly the RC Helicoptors out the back. nice shots Gaz. 😉 😀 Anna.

Oh, well no harm in dreaming, probably more chance of an airworthy Wessex though than say a Vulcan………

Steve

Thanks folks.
The photos would have been in three consecutive lumps but work got in the way. 😀

The Museum is at Locking/Weston-super-Mare.
Link to their website – http://www.helicoptermuseum.co.uk/

I have a couple more photos of one or two other exhibits – I’ll stick them up tomorrow.

Last ones

1. Whirlwind
2. Whirlwind
3. Widgeon

That’s your lot.

Great photo’s – thanks for sharing them.

I’d love to see a few airworthy Scouts or Wasps. We had loads of them didn’t we? Surely it can’t be _that_ hard. 🙁

Roy.

Kennet has 2 Wasps, and sold their Scout to Nigeria.
There have been a few advertised for sale recently, they go for between £75-100k for an airworthy one.

The subject of the difficulty/costs of getting a Wessex into the air has been discussed before, but to summarise:

Good pictures by the way, whereabouts is the Heli museum?

Great photo’s – thanks for sharing them.

I’d love to see a few airworthy Scouts or Wasps. We had loads of them didn’t we? Surely it can’t be _that_ hard. 🙁

Roy.

Costs, mostly. Eggbeaters are costlier than fixed wing machines to maintain and fly. And for the most part there’s less interest in them – a few people have put older helicopters back in the air but have struggled to get airshow bookings.

Great photo’s – thanks for sharing them.

I’d love to see a few airworthy Scouts or Wasps. We had loads of them didn’t we? Surely it can’t be _that_ hard. 🙁

Roy.

Hi,

Question: is this the worlds biggest collection of helicopters?

Moan: why can’t we see we see more airworthy vihnatge choppers – especially a Wessex.

Steve

PS. Love the photos!

Some nice pics there arm waver, there seem’s to be a lot of lynx’s at the helicopter mueum !!

curlyboy

Third batch

1. Scout
2. Sioux
3. Skeeter
4. Sycamore
5. UH-1H
6. Wessex
7. WG-30 Prototype
8. WG-30 Plaything
9. Whirlwind
10. Whirlwind

Last ones next

Second Batch

1. Lynx 3 Plaything
2. Lynx – World’s fastest Helicopter
3. Lynx
4. Lynx
5. Mil-2
6. Mil-4
7. OH-6A
8. R.22
9. Rotordyne components
10. Belvedere nose

A few more to follow