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Family Fun day Sunday 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. 

The prize for the best decorated glider was won by Bonnie Todd, the longest flight by Nathaniel Fairhead.

Polystyrene Plate Glider 

Land a flight simulator

Can you land a Microsoft Flight Simulator safely?

Flight Simulator picture 
Children's play area

Children's play area with colouring, jigsaws and wooden model aeroplanes.

Waveney Valley & District Preservation Society 

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

Flight Simulator picture

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 and wooden model aeroplanes

Favourite object competition

Pick up a leaflet (cost £1) from the Link area 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.

Activities, talks and tours

Each Monday and Tuesday from 10:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00 we will be running the following:

Flight simulators and Children's play area, as above.

Link Trainer

Link trainers

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

The home front

On Tuesdays 2nd August, 9th August and 30th August visit an Anderson Shelter and see what it was like to be in an air raid in the second world war.

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.

14:00 Mondays 8th August, 15th August, 22nd August and 29th August. Aimed at older children (10 upwards).

Fug10

The ubiquitous Aerofoil

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

14:00 Tuesdays 26th July, 9th August and 30th August. 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.

Not getting lost

Decca Navigator

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

14:00 Tuesdays 2nd August and 16th August. A look at some of the equipment, simple and complicated, that allow pilots to navigate. Aimed at children and adults from 6 upwards.

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.

14:00 - 16:00 Mondays 25th July, 1st August, 8th August, 15th August, 22nd August and 29th August. Aimed at all ages.

Schools visit
Gnat fighter

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?

11:00 - 12:00 Sunday 24th July, Mondays 25th July, 8th August and 15th August plus Tuesdays 26th July, 2nd August, 9th August, 16th August and 30th August. Children aged 12 and over.


   
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