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Museum of Scottish Aviation - East Fortune rd

The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum, at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune, Scotland. The museum is housed in the original wartime buildings of RAF East Fortune which is a well preserved World War II airfield. RAF East Fortune was used as a fighter station during the First World War and later used by a night fighter operational training unit during the Second World War. The motto of the station is "Fortune Favours the Bold".
A trip round the Museum of Scottish Aviation at East Fortune for my birthday. 21/2/2009
A return visit was made on 25/6/2017
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    The Scottish Aviation Bulldog is a British two-seat side-by-side (with optional third seat) training aircraft designed by Beagle Aircraft as the B.125 Bulldog.  The prototype Bulldog flew on 19 May 1969.  This airframe is the prototype built by Beagle Aircraft.
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    The Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke is a maritime patrol aircraft and trainer used by the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Built by Fairchild-Canada, it was a license-built version of the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV bomber.  This airframe is 9940 and uses the outer wings of 9059.  This Bolingbroke was used to train air gunners. It is painted in the yellow colour scheme of training aircraft which flew as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during the Second World War. More than 230,000 men took part in this training.
    The Miles M.18 was a light civil aircraft, only four were built, between 1938 and 1942.  In 1941 this aircraft was considered by the Royal Air Force for training pilots but no order was placed.
In 1948 Brian Iles bought this aircraft. He flew it in many air races, with great success. He won the Goodyear Trophy Air Race in 1956, the 1956 and 1957 British Air Racing Championships, the Osram Cup Air Race in 1957 and the King’s Cup Air Race in 1961. 
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