No one appears to have mentioned Brooklands Museum near Weybridge in Surrey. It has everything for all ages – Vickers aircraft collection, including the Loch Ness Wellington and the only production Concorde open to visitors in the South East (extra charge). In addition, there are old cars (somtimes doing rides on the old racing banking), motorbikes, Grand Prix cars and, even, the Raleigh bicycle collection. Some cockpits open to young and old and finish off with a visit to Mercedes-Benz World. See: http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
= John

Why would anyone mention Brooklands when the question asked was which to visit, RAFM or FAAM.

The only current military locations that still have any fire training airframes (even if they are not actually burnt now) to my knowledge are Manston and Predannack, as for civilian stuff there should still be several Tridents at Durham Tees Valley airport with the CAA fire school.

Tim

There are still several in use for various things at Yeovilton, 3 Harriers, a Wessex and a ex Egyptian Sea King

Does anyone know what happenmed to the remains of WB271? – there was no fire, and i’ve seen other aircraft as badly damage restored to flight

See post number 8 on the other Firefly thread

The Gannet is due to move within the next 10 days or so, if a certain item of equipment can find its way to Flambards, as for where its going, sorry no idea.

PH178 was on 758 Squadron RN Hinstock from 1.46 to 5.49 ,i do not have PH179 in RN service.

PH179 was on 758NAS charge when it forced landed, Cat E 6/2/45
(Credit – Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945, Ray Sturtivant and Mick Burrow)

I would go for,
What unit – 758NAS(Blind Approach School, later Naval Advanced Instrument Flying School)
Where – Hinstock(HMS Godwit)
When – 42 to 46

As for the carrier, don’t know much about ships but no doubt someone will, as for the aircraft I would go for a Firefly with Sea Furies behind

Hi All,

I am trying to find an original ww2 photo of a Fleet Air Arm officer wearing the Navy Working Dress Blouse (their variant of the BD).
Would anyone know of one in any book??? I want to frame it as explanation with a display I am making.

Cheerio,

Chris

Talk to the Records and Research Dept at the Fleet Air Arm Museum
01935 842635

Thanks for the response.
It has become a big problem with many museums/attractions as it really upsets him, we made the mistake of visiting the Carrier Experience at Yevilton which is great until you go into the various ops rooms which are very well set out but full of dummies. It is also becoming a problem with school trips etc as now adays many have/use them to bring it to life. He was hoping to visit HMS Belfast with the scouts and actually sleep on HMS Belfast and visit the IWM but this involves dummies again so he doesnt want to go an so will miss out on a great weekend.

We built Carrier 14 years ago and I must admit I can’t remember who made the dummies now, however I will have a look through the files over the next few days and get back to you, hopefully the company is still exists. I am sorry that your youngster is upset with our dummies, I must admit this is the first time I have come across the problem, I hope he can get over it in some way. Since the advent of the Carrier experience any dummy we have used around the museum has tended to be a home made effort using secondhand shop dummies. If its any help you could always bring him back to FAAM and he could help us dismantle or build one for display to see how it goes together.