World aviation museum and gate guard map

[The Rat]

They wanted us do some tests on bits of their track that was sunk into the concrete while I was at BR, and we all had to get MoD clearance just to be allowed through the gate! 

Well, some of the track leads to the secret underground bunker where they keep the captured nazi flying saucers. Prove me wrong!

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Thanks Charlie_c67, updated/removed.

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And now I have to go poke around there...

[Charlie_c67]

Sadly a load of the track has been pulled up as the depot has closed down. Graven Hill is now a housing estate and one half of Arncott is pretty much in civilian hands. There is still a bit of military there, but it won't be for long. A shame in some respects as it would've made a cracking Heritage Railway. Mind you, better to build the houses there than on the site of the old plague village as was suggested at one point...

[scooter]

Mind you, better to build the houses there than on the site of the old plague village as was suggested at one point...

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[Captain Canada]

The Kiowa at CFB Edmotnon. I took the pic in 2012.

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Nice.

[jcf]

Stockport Council has approved expansion of the Avro Heritage Museum.

Permission granted for new hangar Avro Heritage Museum

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Great!

[Nick]

I have a new one for you. This is what happens when you go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole search kicked off by a random mention by Weaver on this website!
@Weaver

Cooma, New South Wales, has a memorial to the Avro 618 Southern Cloud which was lost on 21 March 1931. Despite extensive searching the wreckage wasn't found until 1958.
Just next door to this memorial is a Blue Plaque for Professor Thomas Leech, among other things, who helped develop the black box flight recorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Avro_Ten_Southern_Cloud_disappearance

Now it gets a little strange. One guy by the name of Stan Baker missed this fatal flight and hated to fly again. But he did and in 1950 he died in a plane crash when DC-4 Amana crashed near Perth in Western Australia.
One of the landing gear legs is the memorial for that tragedy in Beverley, next to the Vampire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Australian_National_Airways_Douglas_DC-4_crash

In looking up the history that Vampire I was led to the last image on this page... and back to Weaver!
https://www.goodall.com.au/photographs/pearce-vampires-70/70sraafpearcevampires.html

[Weaver]

I have a new one for you. This is what happens when you go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole search kicked off by a random mention by Weaver on this website!
@Weaver

Cooma, New South Wales, has a memorial to the Avro 618 Southern Cloud which was lost on 21 March 1931. Despite extensive searching the wreckage wasn't found until 1958.
Just next door to this memorial is a Blue Plaque for Professor Thomas Leech, among other things, who helped develop the black box flight recorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Avro_Ten_Southern_Cloud_disappearance

Now it gets a little strange. One guy by the name of Stan Baker missed this fatal flight and hated to fly again. But he did and in 1950 he died in a plane crash when DC-4 Amana crashed near Perth in Western Australia.
One of the landing gear legs is the memorial for that tragedy in Beverley, next to the Vampire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Australian_National_Airways_Douglas_DC-4_crash

In looking up the history that Vampire I was led to the last image on this page... and back to Weaver!
https://www.goodall.com.au/photographs/pearce-vampires-70/70sraafpearcevampires.html

I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, I'm awfully tempted to claim it was all part of my devious plan and congratulate you on figuring it out.

On the other hand though, that might oblige me to give you some sort of prize...

  

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Amazing!  Thanks, Nick.  Museum added (rare enough these days.)  Memorials added.  Is there a Vampire at the museum as well as the one around that's around the corner?  That one is under cover now, but I don't see any outside the museum on Google Earth.  Old photos show one, with a different number than the display one around the corner.

[Glenn Gilbertson]

Koggala, Airport, Sri Lanka. last week. I shall never worry about paint finishing, interiors or detailing again!

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Nice shots!  The photos I've seen show it in much better shape- but were taken in 2013. 

[The Rat]

Koggala, Airport, Sri Lanka.

According to Dad's log book, he flew Sunderland NJ277 into Koggala on September 10, 1945, then out again to Redhills Lake, India, on September 15. Exactly a month later, in service with 230 Squadron...    Crash