I’ll start with a quick run down of the museums I’ve visited, Middle Wallop, Hendon, North East Aircraft Museum, Manston Spitfire and Hurricane Museum, Museum of Berkshire Aviation and the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection.
The aviation sites of special interest I’ve visited are, The Eagle pub in Cambridge although it was shut for refurbishment when I went 🙁 , the site of the Stonehenge airfield, Airmans cross a few hundred away site of the first Flying Corps personnel to die in an aircraft crash while on duty, the oldest surviving military aerodrome building in the UK at Larkhill a few miles away, I was born in the RAF hospital in Ely and I’ve been to the Somme and there is quite a bit of aviation history in the ground and that took place in the skies above (I little tenuous I know!).

Duxford Saturday 11th May:

A very dull morning with the threat of rain meant the Bonus Day Fly-In was not well attended today.
Not much activity around the hangars either, this was one of the few bright spots:

This picture makes me go week at the knees! :eagerness:

My little boy (3 in a few weeks) has already been on visits to many stately homes and other historic sites and as his interest in technology grows we’ll start taking him to museums and exhibitions such as Beaulieu, AAC museum Middle Wallop, RAFM Hendon and Bovington tank museum although the last 3 in this list will probably be without Mrs 840!

Very sad news, in 1994 I made my first and only ever flight in a civilian privately owned aircraft in a Tobago (G-TOBA) as a 15 year old cadet flying from Old Sarum as a thank you for helping out at a fly in. 🙁

curlyboy

When aircraft as top secret as this are sent to museums after they are withdrawn from service, as there are still aspects of them that are still ‘sensitive’ what conditions to them being displayed are there?

Did the lead helicopter guide them in so they didn’t get lost en route?
See what I did there…?