March 2019

Whilst we were recently in the Cotswolds, we visited the Jet Age Museum at Staverton Airfield in Gloucester. This museum celebrates Gloucestershire's rich aviation heritage from the early days of flight, through the birth of the Jet Age to the present day. It is staffed only by volunteers, some of whom flew in the aircraft that are on display.

Gloster Gamecock - last wooden fighter	Gloster Gamecock showing wooden infrastructure
Gloster Gauntlet - last fighter with open cockpit	Gloster Gladiator - last biplane fighter
Hawker Hurricane with Rolls Royce Merlin engine sitting underneath	Chris was fortunate to sit in a Gnat fighter cockpit
Britain's first production jet engine Rolls Royce RB 23 Welland	Gloster Javelin - cold war-era delta wing fighter
Selection of flying instruments and centre of gravity determinator	Horsa Glider replica
From the Pioneer to the Jet Age	Unibus - a motor scooter manufactured by aircraft designer Harold Boultbee at the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company

Avro Vulcan cockpit tour

Avro Vulcan cockpit tour

Gloster Meteor - UK's first jet fighter
	Gloster E28/39 Pioneer - Britain's first jet

Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, 95, the last surviving pilot to have flown the first British jet, the Gloster E28/39 opened the Museum in May 2014

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