National Museum of Flight - East Fortune

[Wallace]

I realised that I had not been to east Fortune in a very long time, so I rectified that last weekend.
There's a quirk at the museum where you need a permit to use a tripod (tripod=professional,) so I used the median Stack, where I mounted the camera on a monopod, set a high ISO on the camera and gave my new 14mm lens a good run for my money.
Here's a selection of pictures.

The big yellow Bolingbroke
9940 Bolingbroke, East Fortune by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

The fuselage of a Spartan Cruiser
G-ACYK Spartan Cruiser, East Fortune by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

The King-Air of its day
G-ANOV Dove, East Fortune by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

Ferranti's long-nosed Meteor
G-ARCX Meteor, East Fortune 2 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

The Mighty SUG, which holds a special place in a lot of Glasgow Spotters hearts...of a certain age
G-ASUG Beech 18, East Fortune 2 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

The Museum's Spitfire
TE462 Spitfire, East Fortune by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

One of my old Strathallan friends
VH-SNB Dragon, East Fortune by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

A different view of the Anson
VM360 Anson, East Fortune by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

Cold War Warriors
ZE934 Tornado, East Fortune. 2jpg by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr


The really sad thing was very little had changed since my last visit since my last visit in 2016 and that was a Red Arrows Hawk. They don't do progress all that well.

[Unknown74]

They definately need a helicopter or 2? A Sea King would look good seeing as they were no doubt regulars at East Fortune Airshows or flying over the Museum often?

[Mustang531]

Thanks for sharing these, my last visit was in 1996, so I really need to go back at some time. I know they wanted to build another larger display hall, to put the Concorde etc, under cover, but planning permission was refused. Has there been any further progress in this? I did read somewhere that tours of the storage hangar were no longer available either. But they do have some rare and interesting machines.

[Alf]

Thanks for sharing these, my last visit was in 1996, so I really need to go back at some time. I know they wanted to build another larger display hall, to put the Concorde etc, under cover, but planning permission was refused. Has there been any further progress in this? I did read somewhere that tours of the storage hangar were no longer available either. But they do have some rare and interesting machines.

Their Concorde has always been undercover I thought?