I haven’t had time to put together a full report, but there are a few photos on my aircraft museum page.

As far as I know, Albert’s right that the main museum is at the Citadel near central Cairo. The photos Mark posted aren’t at the Citadel, perhaps these aircraft are elsewhere or were moved to the Citadel at some point in time. The paint schemes of Mark’s examples are also different than the ones I saw.

When I visited in December of 2004 the security people were absurdly touchy about letting me take camera gear in with me to what is mainly a tourist site with various mosques and so on (admittedly I had a whole bag of bodies and lenses with me). After protesting I was allowed to take most of it in, but had to leave the 100-400mm lens at the front desk.

There were certainly no Lancasters around, and the historic displays inside consisted of dioramas and bits of shot down Israeli aircraft, together with a large panel saying what a brilliant fellow some Egyptian Air Force serviceman called Hosni Mubarak was, whoever he might be! :rolleyes:

Richard.

That’s an unfortunate phrase isn’t it:

“Royal navy planes are being mounted with rockets, which on exploding…”

Where did the equally unfortunate JATO (“jet assisted take off”) acronym come from in reference to rocket assisted takeoffs? Is that just an American usage?

Richard.

For what it’s worth, here’s a shot of one of the RNZAF Andovers performing at Wigram (Christchurch) years ago:

Put that particular shot on a custom calendar I made up for my (ex-RAF, ex-RNZAF) father this year.

Richard.

The organizers of this show have been doing a spectacular job over the last few years, particularly bringing multiple types together at the same time. I was living in Chicago for some years, and went to two of the shows, in 2002 and 2003. My 2003 page includes a diagram of the airfield layout, as well as a highlights page. Unfortunately it seems that I still haven’t gotten around to putting a page together on the 2002 show ( :rolleyes: ), which featured 6 B-25s in the air.

Richard.

Elliott,

It’s a very poor start, but he could begin here for a few names:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Museums/SiteMap.html#MuseumsListedByCountry

Definitely should go to the Keith Park museum in Auckland, which is where your friend will probably fly in and out of the country. Wigram in Christchurch is worthwhile, and he might like Ferrymead also in Christchurch. There’s an Argosy in excellent condition by the side of the road at the top of the South Island (Woodbourne, perhaps)? The New Zealand Fighter Pilot’s Museum at Wanaka is also worth checking out, I imagine that Tim Wallis’ collection of flying aircraft is there, if he plays his cards right then perhaps he’ll see one of them fly.

Richard.

In case anyone’s interested, here’s a photo of a MiG-23ML cockpit, taken at the Nellis AFB Threat Training Facility:

There’s a description of all the controls here:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Museums/ThreatTrainingFacility/Aircraft/index.html#Mig23Cockpit

All corrections gratefully accepted!

Richard.

Richard

Nice photo – in fact I followed that “wallpaper” link and you’ve got some very nice stuff in there – took a copy of Diamond Lil for my wallpaper, trust you don’t mind.

cheers, D

No, I don’t mind at all – just Paypal $50 over to me 😉 . Real dollars too, not those Kiwi dollars :diablo: .

Funnily enough I had a woman email me a month or two ago wanting to get some biplane wallpaper so she could paper her son’s bedroom 🙂 . She explained that she’d tried another website, but it turned out to be a fraud :rolleyes: ! I sent an email back explaining what computer wallpaper is. I guess the internet really isn’t much good if you actually are trying to buy real wallpaper!

Richard