What's On This Year, 2008
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Ideas & Innovation
3 May
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1 June
This May is Museums & Galleries month, the theme for which is Ideas & Innovation. To tie in with this, the Museum is giving budding artists during EACH WEEKEND IN MAY the opportunity to add their own creativity to some ground breaking aircraft - ranging from the Eurofighter Typhoon to the record breaking Gypsy Moth by generating new designs for them, as well as creating their own designs for aircraft of the future.
Accompanying this activity, there will be a small exhibition in the Museum’s Aeronauts Interactive Gallery on Development of Flight & Equipment.
The Aeronauts Interactive Gallery is open every weekend from 10.00 – 18.00. Last admission to the Museum is 17.30.
Operation Aviation Cadet Weekend
17 May
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18 May
London is flooded, road and rail links are down, and there is only one way into the city. We need aircrews willing to fly essential supplies and medical equipment into the city. This is a humanitarian mission, lives are at stake. Are you up to the challenge?
The RAF Museum is hosting a special cadet weekend on 17th and 18th May 2008. We will be running four sessions of Operation Aviation on each day starting at 10.30, 12, 14.30 and 16.00. Each session can handle a total of 24 cadets split into up to six teams of four. The price for the day is just £25. For this, you will get your Operation Aviation session, a chance to explore the museum and a showing of 'Our Finest Hour' light and sound show. There will be a prize for the best four person group per session.
Veterans' Day - Private Event
20 May
A special day for Veterans from all three services. Veterans need to pre-register their places by calling the Group Business Development Department on 020 8358 4849 (Mon - Fri between 9.00am - 5.00pm). The Museum is open as normal.
Place your bids for a Aviation Conservation Experience Day
24 May
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2 June
The Royal Air Force Museum has teamed up with Top Lots UK to enable you to bid on an Aviation Conservation Experience Day for two at the Museums Michael Beetham Conservation Centre at Cosford.
For further details, please refer to the news section of our website.
Search & Rescue
26 May
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30 May
Half-term week packed with Search and Rescue missions. Take the lead at the radio in mission control or be a castaway in a life-size dinghy, the choice is yours.
For further information, please telephone 020 8358 4896.
Set Course For A Trailblazing Exhibition
31 May
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31 December
Many people identify the Golden Age of aviation as the period between the two World Wars, a time when young men and women sought thrills, danger and, ultimately, international recognition through trailblazing aviation exploits that set the world alight.
This small group of pioneers were the first to conquer oceans and seas or just the physical and mental demands of long distance flying, without the comfort of the modern technologies that we take for granted today, making their achievements, for many, even more wondrous.
In this the Centenary Year of British Powered Flight, the Royal Air Force Museum has decided to honour this band of intrepid aviators with a free six month exhibition. ‘Trailblazers’ focuses on four individuals whose courage, grit and determination captured the world’s imagination during the 1920s and 30s.
•Alex Henshaw, Spitfire Test Pilot and British Air Racer who flew in 1939 from London to Cape Town covering all 6,377 miles in just over 39 hours, a few short months before the outbreak of World War II.
•Amy Johnson who, in 1930, became the first woman successfully to complete a long distance solo flight to Australia – in a second-hand De Havilland Gipsy Moth.
•Francis Chichester, a superb navigator who, in 1931, was the first to make a solo east-west crossing of the Tasman Sea in his Gipsy Moth.
•Charles Lindbergh, the first pilot to cross the Atlantic single-handed in 1927, with just a compass and the stars to navigate his way.
On 31st May ‘Trailblazers’ will re-introduce these pioneers, their achievements and aircraft associated with them to a new generation of young explorers in the appropriately named Milestones of Flight Hall at the Museum’s London site.
For further information, please call 0208 205 2266
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