That smell of oil and pistons again.......

Wednesday 12th August  2015

Sure enough, the Whitehouse Beach Caravan Club site was equipped with a good selection of local and cultural information. We chose to visit the local Aviation Museum at Flixton.

Spotted a tea room in one of the Hangars 

RAF Hawker Hunter FGA.9 XG254

We spent several hours looking around this interesting aircraft museum. Lots of interest not only looking at the fine selection of aircraft, but also the hangars were packed with memorabilia. Photographs and letters portraying the lives of military people based at the airfield years ago.

RAF HAWKER HUNTER  FGA.9 XG254

Nose section of WG789/CANBERRA B2 Mod 

B-17 Fortress Wright Cyclone Engine. 

Recovered by a fishing vessel, the Corystes. 

20 metres down, off Southwold, Suffolk. 

GLOSTER JAVELIN F(AW).9(R)

GLOSTER JAVELIN F(AW).9(R)

 GLOSTER JAVELIN F(AW).9(R)

NORTH AMERICAN F-100D SUPER SABRE 

GLOSTER METEOR F(TT).8

DASSAULT MD-452 MYSTERE IVA

DASSAULT MD-452 MYSTERE IVA

LOCKHEED T-33A

FMA 1A-58A  PUCARA

NORTH AMERICAN T-28C TROJAN

MIG

Boulton & Paul P.6 was built by the company in 1918. 1st May 1919, the day the Air Navigation Act came into force, the P.6 made the first official business flight in Great Britain. Flying the B&P Sales Manager (Mr R. McWilliams) from Norwich to Bury St Edmunds to complete a business deal and back.   

This is of particular interest to me (Kaye).  Boulton and Paul is a name I know from the far and distant past, when I worked in the Timber Trade. Boulton and Paul were major players in buying timber. They manufactured doors, window frames and stairs at the company's factories.