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The Royal Naval Air Service Central Training Establishment at Cranwell’s early operations included training in ballooning and airships at its Lighter than Air Section. The exhibition includes detail of a selection of those airships. The Central Training Establishment was originally home to naval aviators and subsequently personnel of the newly formed Royal Air Force, at which point the base was renamed RAF Cranwell.
“It is hard to imagine the conditions the early airship crews endured when flying an airship” says Heritage Assistant, Angela Riley. “Their control car would have been exposed to the elements, and the consequences of getting things wrong could be disastrous” The exhibition will also include the history of one of the early airship pioneers, Lieutenant Colonel CM Waterlow and the horrific and fatal accident that befell him in the skies over Cranwell. To bring the story right up to date, the exhibition will also feature ‘Airlander’, a hybrid airship which today is being developed by Hybrid Air Vehicles, taking to the skies over Bedfordshire. This exhibition is open to the public until Sunday 25 March 2018 during weekends only from 10am to 4pm. Admission is free. For more information about this exhibition please contact Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum on 01529 488490 or email [email protected]. For more information about Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum please visit www.cranwellaviation.co.uk
“It is hard to imagine the conditions the early airship crews endured when flying an airship” says Heritage Assistant, Angela Riley. “Their control car would have been exposed to the elements, and the consequences of getting things wrong could be disastrous”
The exhibition will also include the history of one of the early airship pioneers, Lieutenant Colonel CM Waterlow and the horrific and fatal accident that befell him in the skies over Cranwell. To bring the story right up to date, the exhibition will also feature ‘Airlander’, a hybrid airship which today is being developed by Hybrid Air Vehicles, taking to the skies over Bedfordshire. This exhibition is open to the public from Saturday 30 September 2017 to Sunday 25 March 2018. Admission is free. For more information about this exhibition please contact Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum on 01529 488490 or email [email protected]. For more information about Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum please visit www.cranwellaviation.co.uk Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum will take to the skies with new exhibition due to open next month8/15/2017
See their development over time, including the types of balloons and airships which operated from Cranwell; learn about the working life of an airship’s crew; find out about Zeppelin raids on Lincolnshire as well as the career of Barnes Wallis, a designer of airships.
This exhibition is open to the public from Saturday 30 September 2017 to Sunday 25 March 2018. Admission is free. For more information about this exhibition please contact Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum on 01529 488490 or email [email protected].
The event will take place over two weekends – Saturday 17 to Sunday 18 and Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 June.
Event organisers intend to have a station set up at each site; and Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum is one of them! Open from 10am to 4.30pm, see the museum make contact with other museums from around the world! Museums taking part over the years have included ships, castles, air museums, Napoleonic forts, pumping stations, wireless museums, racing museums and many others. For more information please contact the North Kesteven District Council Tourism Team on 01529 308102 or email [email protected]. For information about other places to visit in the Heart of Lincolnshire, visit www.heartoflincs.com. |
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