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Wings Aviation Museum

Published in Oct 24

The wings Aviation Museum is one of those places you need to visit to really experience the huge range of artifacts on display. It’s not a traditional aviation museum with lots of static aircraft. Everything you see is recovered WW2 aircraft and equipment – and all with a story behind. The star of the show is a fully restored Merlin engine that you can see running. Something quite special.

Heading out to get their wings were: Barry and Jenny, John, Laurence and Suzanne, Dave and Barry Pyne, Mike H, Graham, James and Trisha, Tim and Steve, Mike E, Cliff and Andy

A damp start at Newlands Corner. Sensible people were inside keeping warm.
Arrival at the Sussex Oak in Warnham. Barry and Lawrence about to have a dance-off.
Waiting for dinner
Dinner!
Dinner from the other end.
Including Jenny and Barry’s chip
Barry suggesting to Trisha she should have had pudding. The custard hand belongs to Suzanne.
A muddy arrival at the Wings museum
Doesn’t look much better the other way round
Wellington bomber rear turret. It’s tiny!
Old things looking at even older things
V2 rocket engine
The mighty Merlin.
Waiting for the start
One of four engine recovered from a crashed Halifax bomber in Germany.
From the back
From the front
The other three engines helpfully pointed out by James
Barry completing a lifelong campanology ambition
James practising his new found pointing technique
Barry considering a new garden shed
Queue for the shed tour. Lawrence practices pilot posing
Steve overjoyed at the suffusion of aircraft bits.
One of many recovered aircraft.
John considering doing a break dance
Men looking at a large metal engine
Cliff makes an interesting find
Sadly not a relation
Original WW2 coffee machine
Brighter than a TR’s headlamp. Which isn’t that difficult.
Mike steals James’s pointing finger
Cockpit view of Graham looking at more old things
Barry preparing to shoot…
Most of the group photo

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