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MIG-15 Updates

MIG-15 Updates …….. Our Mig-15 is lacking most of the interior equipment so we are pleased to have acquired by donation a complete instrument panel and an original ASP-3N gun sight for the cockpit.  Our aircraft is a Czech example and it is painted in dual Czech/Polish markings as a memorial to airmen from these countries who flew […]

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Boats can’t fly!

(Republished due to technical issue – Bloginfo)        Boats can’t fly! ………….. Our RAF Air-Sea Rescue building displays a varied collection of photographs and artefacts, and in the room honouring the founding member, Don Thurston, we have possibly the most large-scale models of the marine craft used by the service at one location.  Much to the

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R100 – Engine Telegraph

Engine Telegraph from the R100 airship ………… A fairly recent exhibit to be displayed is an Engine Telegraph from the R100 airship. Following the crash of the R101 in France on its maiden flight in October 1930, the R100 was ordered to be scrapped, despite the fact that it had a superior structural design by Barnes Wallis. 

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