Solway Aviation Museum November 2021 Update

Historic England have a fantastic new mapping resource that allows you to overlay imagery and line drawings (and other layers such as LIDAR) of areas they have records for. Here’s an example from the former RAF Crosby on Eden that shows some of the WW2 camp layout superimposed on imagery of the modern site of Solway Aviation Museum.
You can see hangars, camp buildings, the male accommodation area (in the field opposite the museum), AAA gun emplacements and dispersals (our Vulcan is parked on one).

The second picture shows the full extent of the old camp, right up to the female accommodation in Laversdale.

 

 

The Royal Air Forces Association memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something for the weekend? Oh, go on then. Here’s our Avro Vulcan B2. Have a great one!

 

 

Recently restored and looking great, here’s our Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF14

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of period posters from the 50s extolling the virtues of what would become known as the Whirlwind. Our S-55 is a US-built Sikorsky example (currently in deep restoration).