Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 18, 2023 13:13:01 GMT 12
The Wings Over New Zealand Show Episode 291 is now online, Wings Over Britain: RAF Museum Midlands. In this episode I visited the terrific Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, at RAF Cosford, with my friend Nigel Hitchman, and met the Manager of the RAF Museum’s Conservation Centre, Darren Priday.
Darren talks about the museum at Cosford, recent restorations such as the Vickers Wellington now on display at Cosford and the Handley Page Hampden that he is still working on and was about to head soon to display at Hendon.
He covers the recovery of the Dornier 17 ten years before, and how they have been conserving it and preparing it for display. And he talks about the techniques they have used and developed to preserve aircraft recovered from the sea. He gives a teaser for another sea recovery project that does not involve the RAF Museum, but he is advising on it.
He addresses the problem of having several aircraft outside in the weather, and plans for a new building in the future. And gives a good general overview of the museum.
There are lots of photos to see at the page, as well as the audio episode.
Here is the link:
cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2023/11/wonz-291-wings-over-britain-raf-museum-midlands/
Darren talks about the museum at Cosford, recent restorations such as the Vickers Wellington now on display at Cosford and the Handley Page Hampden that he is still working on and was about to head soon to display at Hendon.
He covers the recovery of the Dornier 17 ten years before, and how they have been conserving it and preparing it for display. And he talks about the techniques they have used and developed to preserve aircraft recovered from the sea. He gives a teaser for another sea recovery project that does not involve the RAF Museum, but he is advising on it.
He addresses the problem of having several aircraft outside in the weather, and plans for a new building in the future. And gives a good general overview of the museum.
There are lots of photos to see at the page, as well as the audio episode.
Here is the link:
cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2023/11/wonz-291-wings-over-britain-raf-museum-midlands/
