Stories from Museum Members
Exercising ‘The Dog’ John Self recalls his RAF days with the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile. For more than three years I worked on the Bloodhound Mk 2 missile system in the RAF: first with training at RAF Newton, then a bit of hands-on experience at RAF North Coates before a posting to an Australian base […]
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Raid Spotters … If a single Luftwaffe bomber flew across the U.K. the air raid siren would sound under its flight path, with a safety margin either side, with time before or after it had passed over allowing people to safely get into the air raid shelters and later to get out and back to
MEMORIES OF COLLECTING OUR EARLY AIRCRAFT … Obviously, an aviation museum must have aircraft for display and our first acquisition was the Spitfire replica from the Battle of Britain museum Kent, followed by the Avro Anson (our first real aircraft) from Norwich. Our next exhibit was the Meteor which we collected from RAF Coltishall, complete
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