British Naval Aircraft Blackburn Skua – Hawker Siddeley Sea Vixen FAW.2 – Blackburn Buccaneer Today I thought we’d wander around the gallery of British aircraft and once inside I noticed that, to date, there are only four naval aircraft. So let’s look at three of them. The Blackburn Skua was ground breaking aircraft when it…

Here are the additions to the Public Galleries this week: Ansett-ANA Boeing 727-100 in 1/144 made from the Airfix kit Dassault Rafale C in 1/72 made from the Italeri kit. Dassault Super Mystere in 1/72 made from the Airfix kit. deHavilland Hornet F.1 in 1/72 made from the Special Hobby kit. deHavilland Sea Hornet NF.21…

Steve has added the Amodel 1/72 MiG-9 to his Gallery. We have added a new Workbench Note for the Arsenal Delanne 10 1/72 Planet kit and replaced existing Workpench Notes for the North American X-15 in 1/72 by Monogram, Bereznyak-Isaev BI in 1/72 by Eastern Express and MiG-31 in 1/72 by Condor. Additions to the…

Fabulous French Aircraft Potez 580 – Sud Ouest Bretagne – Airbus A.300 Anyone wandering through the Museum’s galleries will soon notice there are more French aeroplanes than you would normally find in an aviation museum outside France. That is the case because the French aviation industry has always been among the most important in the…

The past week has been busy outside the Museum so there was no Curator’s Choice this week. The feature will return. We are planning to replace the Museum blog with a regular newsletter which we encourage you to subscribe to. It will contain news of the latest additions to the Museum, the Curator’s Choice and…

In The Reading Room you will find Robin’s new addition to Robin Johnson on the Airways, ‘1997 – A Year of Sightseeing and Science Fiction’. Also in the Reading Room you will find an addition to the Workbench Notes on the new Kovozavody Prosteov 1/72 Sopwith Triplane and renovations, including PDF downloads, to the Workbench…

Sundry Military Aircraft LFG Roland C.II – Dewoitine 520DC – Piaggio PD.808 Last week we went for a wander around the ‘Sundry Nations’ Gallery so this week we will take a look in the ‘Sundry Military Roles’ Gallery. There’s not very many aircraft in there as yet but there’s still enough to find three interesting…

France and Germany are the focus of today’s additions, with a little bit of the Space Race of the 1960s.   A Dewoitine 520 of the Vichy period of French aviation made from a Hobby Boss 1/72 kit.                       Another Dewoitine 520 of the Vichy…

Sundry Nations’ Aircraft Aero L27 Delfin – Doflug D-3802 – CAC CA-15 The arrangement of this museum’s galleries has made it convenient to bundle some of the less well traveled aircraft functions and countries of origin into a couple of galleries of ‘sundries’. We will probably need to add more galleries as the number of…

This week’s additions is a focus on France, dont six Char Francaise, un avion Francaise et trois autres avions.  Let’s see what they are:   Schneider CA (early) in 1/72 using the Wespe/Retrokit kit.                             Schneider CA (late) in 1/72 using the…

Rare Australian Airliners Airspeed Ambassador – Consolidated LB30 – Douglas DC-5 My enthusiasm for airliners comes to the surface again with this week’s choices.  I happened to be looking at the Douglas DC-5 which would not normally have flown in Australia but ended up here because of World War II.  ‘How many other unusual airlines…

Here’s the additions to the Museum’s collection for this week. Blackburn Skua II in 1/72 made from the Novo (Frog) kit.                     Blohn und Voss Ha139V-3 in 1/144 made from the Air Craft Models vacform kit.                   Boeing…