The most glaring omissions (in my humble opinion, and I am very much biased of course) are the Stirling and Whitley. Of both aircraft the RAFM holds substantial remains in deep storage. Even restoration of these sections and put on display give some sort of recognition to the aircrew who flew these types.

I agree with your humble opinion, at least some private individuals are trying to make amends for these omissions.
Hopefully as these progress the RAFM will make their ‘bits’ available, if they don’t a restored Stirling tail would make a fantastic exhibit. Wasn’t aware they had any Whitley bits?

Always great to see progress on this project, each piece no matter how small is another step forward. The attention to detail and authenticity is admirable.
Looking ahead when do you hope to start some framing?

The contact I have for Bristol Aero Collection Archive is Duncan Greenman, always very helpful when I have asked for information for modelling projects, his email is
DUNCAN GREENMAN [duncan.greenman@btinternet.com] . There’s a Dive School in Gibralter that advertises trips to a Bombay wreck that ditched soon after take off, never seen any photos but it would be great to think there is still one out there,
Neil

Hi Elliot,
Any updates or progress, just read the whole thread and would love to know the project is still moving forward.

My next big thing is seeing progress on static projects. Really excited by the Hampden at Cosford plus would love to see the Stirling Project make rapid progress to a point where they are looking to complete a whole fuselage before thinking about the rest. Also the Whitley rebuild has gone a bit quiet lately, what progress on that?

I’ve started following this thread recently, like most people I’d like to see a Stirling recreated and the regard the stringer material is a major step forward. One thing I’m not clear about is how much Stirling the project aims to create, the website implies just the forward fuselage section but the bomb bay goes a long way back, so will it include the mid upper turret? Or the wing roots? Are you planning ahead so that a restored tail section could be added at some point. Congratulations on the work so far, look forward to the next update. Just imagine a bomber hall with a Hampden, Stirling, Wellington and Whitley…

Looking forward to this too having grown up near Filton and spent what seemed like ages listening to them testing Concorde engines in the ’70’s.
The museum is supposed to open in Spring 2017 with most funding seemingly in place but updates on the website are few and far between.
It takes some finding but there is a proposed exhibit list on the website, hopefully its early days as there are not many aircraft besides Concorde, the Bolligbroke, Scout, F2b and a few commercial ones. It’s interesting to think what might be possible, my wish list would be to add a Freighter, Beaufighter, a salvaged Bombay(!) and a Braemar replica. Seriously though they do need more exhibits if it is to represent the story of bristol aircraft.. now where did I see rumours of a Blenheim 1F returning to flight.