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Family Fun day Sunday 24th July
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Swing Dancing, Suffolk Vehicle Enthusiasts Club, Norfolk
Rover Club, Vintage Military Amateur Radio Society, BBMF Spitfire flypast.
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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.
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Land a flight simulator
Can you land a Microsoft Flight Simulator safely?
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Children's play area with colouring, jigsaws and wooden model
aeroplanes.
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Waveney Valley & District Preservation Society
Bygones, working engines, Lowestoft Classic Vehicle Club and
agricultural vehicles
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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
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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.
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Link trainers
Subject to serviceability (they are over 60 years
old) and minimum height of 4' fly one of our Link
Trainers
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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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