, who was injured in air accident, and was confined to a wheelchair but nevertheless continued to fly. Since 2008 the museum has held the Swedish military heritage collection. Aircraft on display include

from the sixteenth century, related to experimental flying apparatus, and the museum tells in some detail the story of Man’s subsequent attempts to fly, and has some important artefacts relating to the

000 photographs. A professional simulator of the Boeing 737-800 airliner can be used by visitors to fly the 60-ton aeroplane and learn about instruments, procedures and aeronautics.

Aviation and its facilities are complex systems comprising flying objects, maintenance, handling and service facilities, repair yards, large-scale storehouses, administrative tracts, shops, building services

flight by a Briton in a British aeroplane. The first public demonstration of flying in Britain took place there in 1909, and flying training commenced in 1910 and continued for many years. The kiosk used from

there are sure to be bats close by. Young and old alike can find out more about the secrets of the flying mammals from the witch Barbastella. If you prefer to look around by daylight, you should not miss

of William Cockerill (1759-1832), a man of great mechanical talents who made his living by making flying shuttles and other components for textile machines. He went to St Petersburg in 1794, but after the

was constructed between 1912 and 1919 by the Koniglich-Bayerische Flieggentruppen (Royal Bavarian Flying Corps). The hangars and other buildings are some of the earliest of their kind to survive anywhere

countries. Notable aircraft produced by the company included the Wal flying boat of 1924, the Merkur airliner of 1925, and the D15 ‘flying pencil’ of 1935, one of the Luftwaffe’s principal bombers during the

at Farnborough on 16 October 1908. A simulator allows visitors to find out what it would be like to fly such an early aircraft. Outside the museum, visitors can take a guided tour of the wind tunnels used

Austria. Soon after the First World War, the airfield was the site of a Dornier aircraft factory where flying boats were built. The museum shows historic aircraft, most of which are flown regularly, alongside

mechanical engineering, he became interested in flying. He built a series of small monoplanes, each called ‘de Spin’ (the spider), and demonstrated the third by flying it round the tower of Sint-Bavokerk, Haarlem

hazardous process sharpening needles on a grindstone. Injury and illness were commonplace - from flying metal, shattering grindstones, and ‘pointers rot’, a lung disease caused by the dust. Redditch was

place for flying boats in the early 1930s, and was formally recognised as an air terminal in 1935. In the years immediately before the Second World War it was becoming clear that four-engined flying boats [...] during the Second World War by huts built for the personnel who operated the flying boat station. It was leased by the Flying Boat Museum in 1988. The outstanding feature of the museum is a full-size replica [...] The Flying Boat Museum at Foynes near the mouth of the River Shannon in western Ireland highlights a short but significant period in the history of commercial and military aviation. Foynes was a new town

railway runs above it, and above this, the M5 motorway crosses on concrete stilts. Above this, aircraft fly en route to Birmingham International airport. The Galton Valley forms part of the 'Revolution Walk'

demand for thread was increasing due to the growing output of weavers who had begun using the new flying shuttle of John Kay. Before the invention of Hargreaves, cotton thread was made by drawing it through

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of a flying machine with a rotating sail. The exhibitions tell both technological and human stories. A simulator allows visitors to ‘fly’ a helicopter for themselves.

motorbikes range from some of the earliest made to recent models. Among the unique items is a man-powered flying machine made in Austria in 1913. Visitors can try setting a traditional railway signal or operate

propeller-driven reconnaissance and combat aircraft to jets. During air shows, they can even take off and fly past in formation over the historic airfield. This is Duxford, a spectacular branch of the British

public in 2011. Visitors can see the tools used in the silver-smithing trade, including drop stamps and fly presses, and many documents relating to the trade. A ‘bling room’ displays the company’s products which