Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Every Sunday 24/7 - 28/8

Children's play area

With jigsaws, wooden model aeroplanes and colouring.

Every Monday and Tuesday 25/7 - 30/8

10:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00

Flight Simulators

Can you land safely, fly from Caernarfon to RAF Valley or recover from an engine failure over the Swiss Alps in a flight simulator?

Children's play area

With jigsaws, wooden model aeroplanes and colouring.

Link trainers

Subject to serviceability (they are over 60 years old) and minimum height of 4' fly one of our Link Trainers

24th July

Family Fun day

Swing Dancing, Suffolk Vehicle Enthusiasts Club, Norfolk Rover Club, Vintage Military Amateur Radio Society, BBMF Spitfire flypast.

Polystyrene plate glider competition

Both for the longest flight and the  best decorated glider. 

Land a flight simulator

Can you land a Microsoft Flight Simulator safely?

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

25th July

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 - 16:00 Evacuees and uniforms

A chance to try on various items such as gas masks, pilot's kit and uniforms as well as an insight into the life of an evacuee in the second world war. Aimed at all ages.

26th July

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 The ubiquitous Aerofoil

Or just how does anything that heavy stay up in the air?

A walk around the museum trying to find all of the places that aerofoils occur in aircraft. Aimed at children and adults from 6 upwards.

31st July

Waveney Valley & District Preservation Society 

Bygones, working engines, Lowestoft Classic Vehicle Club and agricultural vehicles

Can you land safely, fly from Caernarfon to RAF Valley or recover from an engine failure over the Swiss Alps in a flight simulator?

1st August

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 - 16:00 Evacuees and uniforms

A chance to try on various items such as gas masks, pilot's kit and uniforms as well as an insight into the life of an evacuee in the second world war. Aimed at all ages.

2nd August

The home front

Visit an Anderson Shelter and see what it was like to be in an air raid in the second world war. All ages.

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 Not getting lost

How to navigate in the air when you can't see where you are, or even when you can.

A look at some of the equipment, simple and complicated, that allow pilots to navigate. Aimed at children and adults from 6 upwards.

7th August

Royal Air Forces' Association Day

Veterans, stall,, Swing Dancing,  Veteran Motor Cycle Club -  Norfolk (Lou Oliver Waveney Valley Run), BBMF Dakota flypast

8th August

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 Radios as a weapon

A talk on the use of radios as weapons since the start of World War II and into the cold war. Aimed at older children (10 upwards) and adults.

14:00 - 16:00 Evacuees and uniforms

A chance to try on various items such as gas masks, pilot's kit and uniforms as well as an insight into the life of an evacuee in the second world war. Aimed at all ages.

9th August

The home front

Visit an Anderson Shelter and see what it was like to be in an air raid in the second world war. All ages.

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 The ubiquitous Aerofoil

Or just how does anything that heavy stay up in the air?

A walk around the museum trying to find all of the places that aerofoils occur in aircraft. Aimed at children and adults from 6 upwards.

14th August

15th August

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 Radios as a weapon

A talk on the use of radios as weapons since the start of World War II and into the cold war. Aimed at older children (10 upwards) and adults.

14:00 - 16:00 Evacuees and uniforms

A chance to try on various items such as gas masks, pilot's kit and uniforms as well as an insight into the life of an evacuee in the second world war. Aimed at all ages.

16th August

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 Not getting lost

How to navigate in the air when you can't see where you are, or even when you can.

A look at some of the equipment, simple and complicated, that allow pilots to navigate. Aimed at children and adults from 6 upwards.

21st August

22nd August

14:00 Radios as a weapon

A talk on the use of radios as weapons since the start of World War II and into the cold war. Aimed at older children (10 upwards) and adults.

14:00 - 16:00 Evacuees and uniforms

A chance to try on various items such as gas masks, pilot's kit and uniforms as well as an insight into the life of an evacuee in the second world war. Aimed at all ages.

23rd August

28th August

29th August

14:00 Radios as a weapon

A talk on the use of radios as weapons since the start of World War II and into the cold war. Aimed at older children (10 upwards) and adults.

14:00 - 16:00 Evacuees and uniforms

A chance to try on various items such as gas masks, pilot's kit and uniforms as well as an insight into the life of an evacuee in the second world war. Aimed at all ages.

30th August

The home front

Visit an Anderson Shelter and see what it was like to be in an air raid in the second world war. All ages.

11:00 - 12:00 Can you start a jet fighter

Can you follow the pilot's check list to get a cold war jet fighter started? Using our cockpit procedures trainer for a Gnat fighter (also used as a trainer) can you get the engine started? Children aged 12 and over.

14:00 The ubiquitous Aerofoil

Or just how does anything that heavy stay up in the air?

A walk around the museum trying to find all of the places that aerofoils occur in aircraft. Aimed at children and adults from 6 upwards.

Every day the museum is open

Favourite object competition

Pick up a leaflet (cost £1) from the shop and investigate the objects that our young researcher thought were the most interesting in our collection. Then decide on which is your favourite and enter the competition. The best entry in the opinion of the judges will win a prize which will be awarded at the end of August and posted to the winners.