National Museum of Flight Scotland
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Stephan RyllSee some pictures from my visit last week to the National Museum of Flight in Scotland
it starts with the Vulcan followed by the Spitfire and some nice shots from the airfield installations and the visitor shop wich has a nice range of kits and books...
more pictures to come tomorrow... hope you like it
Stephan RyllHere now a list of items that are in that album
Avro Vulcan B.2A
Supermarine Spitfire XVIe
Bristol Bolingbroke (Blenheim)
Bristol Bloodhound
Bedford Fire Engine
AEC Matador 4x4 Truck
Simon Meteor Fire Engine
Mercury Tow Tug
Britten-Norman Islander
Beech E-18S
Miles M.18
Slingsby T.38 Grasshopper
Green C.4 engine from 1909
de Havilland Gipsy II engine
Lycoming IO-540 engine
Montgomerie Parsons autogyro
Weir W-2 from 1934
Druine Turbulent homebuild microlight aircraft
Ikarus C42
de Havilland Puss Moth from 1930
General Aircraft Cygnet
de Havilland Dove
Me-163 Komet and Walter engine
Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.14
Hawker Siddeley Harrier Gr.1 from 1966
English Electric Lightning F.2A
Panavia Tornado F.3
Sepecat Jaguar Gr.1
de Havilland Sea Venom
Paveway II laser guided bomb
Ruhrstahl "Fritz-X"
Matra 2 inch rocket launcher
TIALD laser designator
AIM-7 Sparrow missile
SUU 23A gun pod
Alistair GrahamGood to see you enjoyed your visit. I have not been for a few years and only live 40mins from it. Need to revisit I think.
Stephan RyllAlistair, I enjoyed it a lot and will be back next year with more time for this great exhebition 🙂 and the lovely landscape 🙂
Alistair GrahamStephen you should visit when they host the annual airshow, a great little airshow family event.
Stephan RyllThanks Ekki 🙂
@Alistair - that's the plan for next year 😉 had already some conversations about that 🙂
Christian BruerThis seems to be a very good and interesting museum. Thx for sharing all the nice photos 👍
Stephan RyllIt is Christian... A lot of the buildings there are from WW2... It was a Beaufighter and Mosquito home... So that give's some ideas about dio's... And it still smells like a used airfield 😉
Additional here are the links to the additional albums from Planes located there
Concord experiance Aerospatiale BAC Concorde Walkaround | Album by gaftic87 (1:48)
Mig-15 Mig-15 bis Walkaround | Album by gaftic87 (1:48)
scottish Aviation twin Pioneer Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer Walkaround | Album by gaftic87 (1:48)
Avro Anson Avro Anson Walkaround | Album by gaftic87 (1:48)
De Havilland DH 84 Dragon De Havilland DH 84 Dragon Walkaround | Album by gaftic87 (1:48)
Alistair GrahamThe Gloster Meteor there was used as a radar testbed by radar manufacturer Ferranti (I worked with the defence contractor Ferranti). I remember it being stationed at Edinburgh Turnhouse Airport.
Stephan RyllThank you Alistair for that additional information about the Gloster Meteor 🙂
Stephan RyllThank you Spanjaard 🙂 always a pleasure to give something back to this great Community
Album info
Some about the History of the airfield
East Fortune, now home to the National Museum of Flight, played a major role in both the First and Second World Wars.
The first aircraft arrived in September 1915: two Sopwith two-seat Scouts and a Maurice Fairman from the air station in Montrose. Over the following months more types arrived, Avro 504s and B.E.2c and the first airships, midway through 1916, for which two large hangars were erected.
The fighting of World War 1 ended on 11 November 1918. When the surrendered German Fleet sullenly sailed into the Firth of Forth, East Fortune's aircraft photographed and filmed the event.
Throughout the Second World War, the Royal Air Force Station, East Fortune served as an operational training base.
On 24 November 1942, the airfield was transferred to No.17 Group Coastal Command and became an anti-shipping-strike training unit with the Bristol Beaufort and Beaufighter as its principal machines.
In April 1944, the first de Havilland Mosquitoes began to supplement the Beauf