28/03/2021 – Update from NASAM …

Diary Dates Reminder

As of the moment, there are no changes to the diary dates that we have set for opening the museum.

The museum will be open weekly on a Sunday from Sunday the 18th of April.  including the Bank Holiday Monday, the 3rd of May.  The current plans are that the museum will be open on:

• Sunday 18th April    
  
• Sunday 25th April
• Sunday 2nd May
• Monday 3rd May
• Sunday 9th May and
• Sunday 16th May

These dates will be added to our Social Media Calendars nearer the time.  Provide the UK government unlock process continues as per plan, we should also be able to open up the buildings to the public from Monday 17th May.  We will publish these dates as soon as they are known.

We will be serving hot drinks on a takeaway basis from a kiosk outside, and weather permitting we will open the hangar doors fully so that people can see inside.  We will attempt to move some of the exhibits outside if we can. See “Getting Close” below for how to keep up to date.

Update from the Chairman

Visitor Reception Point

Making the Visitor Reception Point fit in – With the weather warming up a bit the opportunity has been taken to do something about the bare soil around the new Visitor Reception point just inside the gate. Whilst it won’t ever be a prize-winning lawn it should look a bit better with grass around it (VRP Improvements #1 and VRP Improvements #2). The next stage is to wait until the weather improves further and paint it.

Grass Cutting

On the other hand – The winter has, for the most part, been mild. This has meant that the grass on the front meadow never really stopped growing. It was getting very long so the dry weather this week gave us the opportunity to give it the first cut of the season (Grass Cutting Lower Compound).

Winter lockdown tasks

More Scanning – The effort to scan in a large number of photographs and slides held by the museum continues to be reported here. Another scanning task is also being undertaken, that to scan in old committee meeting minutes and reports, plus the AGM minutes and reports.

To date, all minutes back to 1998 have been scanned, and most AGM reports. Some of the files have been displaced from the office during the recent work on that so the opportunity was taken to scan them in.

This will provide two benefits. Firstly the minutes will be secured by our web site host (they are on an area of the site only available to trustees). Secondly, it will make the files more available to the trustees.

The intention is to continue this task to cover the whole history of the museum.

Steve Bell

Brain Teaser

In this edition, we have the third set of anagram brain teaser puzzles. The subject is still “Aircraft in the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum“.  The only clue is, as before, the number of words in both anagram and aircraft name is the same.

1. tuesdays armlets
2. Iffy angel melting
3. conjoint harm narrate
4. coverlets winkling
5. they abstractly vigor

Solutions are at the foot of the blog, and you can use the green button below to go there and a button link is at the solution to bring you back.  Good luck.

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General Updates

Whilst the rota of Volunteers have been going in daily to the Museum to carry out the essential work of security checking and other essential tasks such as emptying the dehumidifiers, those that had the time, have also carried out a few other project tasks whilst they have been there.

Also, we have some more updates from the guys doing the splendid photo scanning work whilst being in lockdown. 

Phantom Missile Frames

Cliff, one such Volunteer who had time to continue with his project, sent in a couple of photos of the work being carried out on the missile frames for the Phanton exhibit (Phantom Frame #1 and Phantom Frame #2).  After taking the pics, Cliff then bolted the supports to one of the frames.  He says he “will do the other frame on his next visit. The missiles need the fins refitted and the supports the padding fitted and then we’re ready to go”.  

Photo Scanning

Paul R sent the following update – “I have forwarded some more photos, this time from a museum in Polk city hopefully of some lesser-known American planes.  I don’t think I would have felt safe in the helicopter it looks quite flimsy and not very safe, just glad it says Experimental“.  I would have to agree with him on that one.  The photos show:

1. Gee Bee Racer replica
2. J2F-6 Duck
3. Sandringham V –  (This was mislabeled in the original photo as Sandrigham V – Ed)
   
4. Wright Flyer replica
5. YH-32 “Experimental”

Paul M provided the next update with seven black and white photos from the album he is working on.  The photos show:

1. Album 3-037 Viscount Rolls Royce Tay engines 1950
2. Album 3-043 Five DH Vampires  Farnborough 1950
3. Album 3-046 Canadair Argonaut
4. Album 3-048 Canberer B2 Henlow
5. Album 3-053 Bristol Britannia
6. Album 3-060 Gloster Meteor F4
7. Album XX-016 Kestrel from West Raynham

Michael also sent an update with five more photos from the many he has scanned.  He said in his update ” here are some more photos of aircraft for the blog – these are still from the first two albums I am working on.

• First up – not a very good quality postcard of Imperial Airways Handley Page HP-42W “Heracles” at Croydon 1939 from Pamlin Prints.
• The second is Boeing 747-136 G-AWND in B.O.A.C. livery shortly after delivery from Boeing, Seattle in 1970, while the third photograph is the same aircraft, named  “Christopher Marlowe”, taxiing out for take-off Summer 1982 with the then-new “British” logo.
• Next up, some busy scenes at Heathrow Airport (listed as Heathrow #1 and Heathrow #2). There is not much information given about either of these photos. First is captioned as being Boeing Stratocruisers of B.O.A.C. circa 1957. In contrast, no information is given for the second, which looks like lots of BEA Tridents at the terminal, with a Crypus Airlines one behind. The third aircraft is possibly a Viscount?”

My thanks go to the guys for sending in the photos and information for the blog.

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Coming In The Next Edition

In the pipeline so far, for the next edition, we have:

1. Another short brain teaser on aircraft in the museum, and
   
2. A few more photographs from the archives, this together with
   
3. A report on an INK Audio Production of “No Ordinary Joe, No Ordinary Kennedy”, a flight that changed history.  This is a dramatic and tragic story of Joe Kennedy Jnr, the elder brother of President JFK.  The original production was due to tour Suffolk last year and a performance was to be had at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum.  This live performance was cancelled due to the pandemic.  This play, by playwright Martyn Wade, has now been turned into an audio production and full details of the cast, sponsors and performance including the all-important audio web link will be in the next issue of the NASAM Online Flier.

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Would You Like To Help

The museum continues to incur expenses for insurance, maintenance and some essential running costs, and I make no apologies for keeping this section in the blog.  Normally being part-funded mostly by visitor and membership donations, in these restricted times, we have been forced to rely on some grants from local and national authorities to help us meet some, but not all, of those costs.   

If you feel able to help the museum, there are several ways you can do this.  Help by becoming a Museum Member, also by Volunteering to help at the museum, or by donating to assist in our running costs.  To become a Museum Member or to Volunteer Member, please click on the appropriate button below to see the details on our main website.

      

To donate, please click the donate button below to be taken to our donations page.

 

For all other details on the museum, please go to our main web page by clicking on the picture below.  Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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Brain Teaser Anagram Solution

The solution to the anagram in this edition of the Online Flier:

1. DASSAULT MYSTERE
2. MIGNET FLYING FLEA
3. NORTH AMERICAN TROJAN
4. VICKERS WELLINGTON
5. BYGRAVES TAYLOR TITCH

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