The Belle arrived in the rain at just before one o’clock, now parked next to Sally B. We’ve unloaded all their stuff for safekeeping and we are going to help them out with servicing and parts before her next appearance. More to come on the blog;

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Surelu just take the flap relay off SallyB? She isnt going anywhere for at least a month..;)

A lot of the captured aircraft were in poor condition and were expended in the Falklands as range targets.

No kidding, one of the Hueys was mostly holes…

To avoid waiting in line to get in:
Dress in some grubby overalls, place some gardening impliments in a wheelbarrow & walk straight thru the main gate like you own the place. Two mates did this exact thing at Mildenhall one time & the guys on guard duty didn’t bat an eyelid.

.. of course this was pre 9/11 so if the guards look like they are about to stop you, just do a bit of weeding by the guardhouse first & be sure to mutter something about *having to bloody work on a sunday* as you walk past the guards.

Where are you located?

Planning a trip to the Far East?

Found this at the NPHT site:

Arromanches D-day museum Normandy, France
There is a Sabre engine on display in the museum.

Brenzett Aero Museum
Sabre Mk IIa from a crash site

Beaulieu Motor Museum
Napier ‘Gordon Bennett’ 1903 racing car

Brooklands Museum
Lion Mk VIIB
XIA Special incomplete
Lion Engined Railton Land Speed World Record Car.

CAEN Memorial Museum Caen, Normandy, France
In the entrance hall there is a full scale reproduction of a Typhoon
which was shot down near Caen during the battle of Normandy.

Deltic Preservation Society Barrow Hill
A number of Deltic Engines and Locomotives.

Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum
Gazelle Mk 100

Fleet Air Arm Museum
Gazelle Mk 601

Gosport Aviation Society
Gazelle unknown Mk

Halifax Bank of Scotland Edinburgh
Coin Weighing Machine

Imperial War Museum
Lion Duxford
Sabre Mk VII Duxford
Gazelle Mk 16101

International Helicopter Museum
Eland 504
Gazelle Mk 100
4 Gazelle Mk 16101’s

Irish Aviation Museum
Dagger Mk III

Loughborough University of Technology
Gazelle ECU 16001

Madrid Mint Museum
Has an example of a Napier Beam Engine(pictures on this site)
Also plans of Minting Machines.

Midland Air Museum
Eland unknown Mark

Millennium Point Birmingham
Lion Mark(Mk) VIID two fitted in Railton World speed Record Car
Sabre Mk VII on loan to Solent Sky

Museum of Flight
Sea Lion
Nomad Mk I (E125)
Gazelle Mk 161
Gazelle Mk 161
Naiad unknown Mk N0 E125

National Motorboat Museum
Lion Mk VIIA fitted in Miss Great Britain
VIID supercharged out of Miss Great Britain III

National Rail Museum York
The Prototype Deltic Locomotive

Newark Air Museum
Gazelle Mk 503

Noyer Bocage Memorial
A memorial to the pilots of Typhoons in Normandy.

Perth Fremantle Museum, Western Australia
Racing car L48 first 6 cylinder 1904 (Sampson)

R C Shelley Collection
Lion Mk V

RAF Cosford
Lion

RAF Hendon Museum
Lion Mk V
VIIA
VIII
Sea Lion
Dagger Mk VIII
Sabre Mk IIA
III
VII two engines
Double Scorpion
Gazelle Mk 100 ex Belvedere Helicopter
Gazelle Mk 10101
Double Scorpion NScD1-1

Rolls Royce Heritage
Lion Mk II or V Bristol
Sabre IIa Derby
Eland Type 141 Derby
Double Scorpion NScD1-1 Derby
Triple Scorpion mock-up Derby
Gazelle Mk 101 Sectioned Scotland

Science Museum
Lion Mk V
Rapier Mk IV
Nomad II (1953) Wroughton
Sabre Mk IIa
Mk IIb sectioned
2 Eland 141’s Wroughton
3 Eland E151’s ex-Rotodyne Wroughton
Eland No EL10 plus mock up
Experimental Turboprop from 1953
Gazelle ECU 16001
Naiad 1947
2 Naiad Unknown Mk’s
Oryx unknown Mk Gas generator for Helicopter rotor tip-drive
Double Scorpion
Limousine (from Acton2) Wroughton

Shuttleworth Collection
Rapier Mk VI
Dagger
Eland unknown Mk

Solent Sky Museum
Racing Lion
Sabre
Scorpion
Double Scorpion
Gazelle
Naiad unknown Mk

The World of Wearable Art & Classic Car Museum
Nelson, New Zealand
Sabre MkVII sectioned

‘Meanwhile VR930’s Bristol Centaurus engine has been removed from the airframe, crated up and awaits transportation to the USA for rebuild. There are on-going attempts to find and buy a spare Centaurus for VR930’
Rich

Mike Nixons place?

How does the kid get on at clothing stores?

For instance, we asked MacDonalds to let us meet Ronald in costume but without any make up. They were obliging and we saw the character with a human face and it seemed to help.

Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me.. 🙁