Aircraft

Alex Murison   email writes:

Today a visitor to the museum has presented us with a print-out from your neam.co.uk site - it features a reference to 'Rotten Borough Awards 2005 Piss-up of the year' and refers to Sunderland Council.

We wish to advise you that the City of Sunderland Council  has been very supportive of the museum for the past 22 years and we consider the reference to be wholly inappropriate and unsupported by the members of the museum.

At a meeting at the museum, held today, 14 members approved that that you be asked to delete all reference to the North East Aircraft Museum from the neam.org.uk website.

Tomorrow I will be contacting Sunderland City Council to dis-associate NEAM from the content of the neam.co.uk site.

Sincerely,

Alex Murison

Hello,

You are very pathetic for messing up a website that people want to visit.

Go and improve your sad little life.

ben.alphapolaris

The Wright Brothers weren't the first to fly. They were just the first not to crash.

WHOSE PLANE IS IT ANYWAY?

TODAY is a red-letter day for UK manufacturing... British engines get the A380 into the air, British wings keep it there and British landing gear brings it back to earth. - The Times, 18 January 2005

'Good old Europe has made this possible,' German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told a packed hall in Airbus's headquarters in Toulouse, southwest France... In a speech to the assembled guests, Chirac called the aircraft 'a great success for Europe'. - Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 18 January 2005

Half the aircraft parts, by value, are built by American companies. About half the engines will be made by General Electric/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance. B.F. Goodrich is building the landing gear. Honeywell is making cockpit electronics. - USA Today, 19 January 2005

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Questions that you might be able to answer after a visit to ****** Museum

1. Why were attempts on the World Speed Record commonly attempted in hotter areas of the world ?
2. What was the only all-British supersonic aircraft ?
3. What were the first two jet aircraft to enter service with the British Air Force ?
4. What were the two major innovations of German jet technology, that were "appropriated" by the Allies at the end of the War ?
5. What is the purpose of a swept-back wing ?

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In Oct 2006, Alberto Santos-Dumont made a short flight in Paris, which was believed at the time to be the first ever aircraft flight. In the subsequent events, his name seems to have been forgotten (outside France and Brazil anyway). There are a couple of books around to learn more of him

• A Night of Bright Stars, a fictionalized account by Richard Llewellyn. ISBN 0 7181 1782 4

First Generation Jet Aircraft (Military)

English Electric Canberra TT.18 (B.2) WJ639 Gloster Meteor F.8 WL181 Gloster Meteor NF.11 WD790 De Havilland D.H.100 Vampire FB.5 VV217 De Havilland D.H.115 Vampire T.11 WZ518

Second Generation Jet Aircraft (Military)

Hawker Hunter F.51 E-419 Dassault Mystere IVA 146 North American NA-173 (F-86D) Saber 51-6151 Supermarine 546 Swift F.4 WK198, fuselage only Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 52-6541 De Havilland D.H.112 Sea Venom FAW.21 XG680 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 XL319

Supersonic Aircraft

English Electric P.26 Lightning F.53 ZF594 North American NA-223 (F-100D) Super Saber 42157

Trainers

De Havilland D.H.C.1 Chipmunk T.10 WB685 Hunting-Percival P.84 Jet Provost T.4 XP627 Lockheed 580 (T-33A) Shooting Star 54439

Passenger Aircraft

De Havilland D.H.106 Comet 4C G-BEEX Handley Page H.P.137 Jetstream (C-10A) (nose section mockup) Short SD.3-30 Variant 100 G-OGIL

Utility Aircraft

Vickers 659 Valetta C.2 VX577 RIP

Military Turboprops

Fabrica Militar de Aviones IA.58A Pucara A-522

Helicopters

Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Dragonfly HR.5 (HR.3) WG724 Aerospatiale SA.341 XW276 Westland-Aerospatiale SA.341G Gazelle Srs.1 G-SFTA Bolkow 105 Bristol 171 Sycamore III WA577 Brown Helicopter BAPC.96 Westland-Bell 47G-3B-1 Sioux AH.1 XT236 Westland-Sikorsky WS-55 Whirlwind HAR.9 (HAS.7) XN258 Westland-Sikorsky WS-51A Widgeon Srs.2 G-APTW

Early Military Aircraft

Avro 652A Anson C.19 TX213 Fairey Firefly AS.5 VT409, rear fuselage Fairey Firefly AS.5 WD889, front fuselage Hawker Hurricane Heinkel He-111 (remains)

Miscellaneous

Aero & Engineering Services Lone Ranger G-MBDL Austin Whippet (R) 'K158' Bensen B-7 Gyroglider BAPC.119 Luton Major Luton L.A.4 Minor BAPC.97 Mignet HM-14 Pou de Ciel (R) 'G-ADVU' Olympus Hang-Glider BAPC.228 Slingsby T.38 Grasshopper TX.1 WZ767 Vickers Valetta Shorts Sunderland

Usworth

RAF Usworth

Searchlight Battalion

No. 31 Gliding School - (31 GS, later 641 GS) RAF Usworth

• Halifax bomber crashes on Ryhope Colliery
• Czech working as spy for the Germans steals a Hurricane from Usworth
• Details of a raid on North Shields on May 3, 1941

• Vulcan Crash in County Durham

• The Dambusters and the Möhne Dam

• History of the British Aircraft Industry
• History of Helicopters
• Early History of Jets
• Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics

Doncaster Aircraft Museum

I don't expect, but do appreciate any donations towards the maintenance of the site.

B. Daugherty, 55 VRN, Portsmouth PO5 1PW, Britain.