The Museum of Flight has two large hangers crammed with aircraft and some larger aircraft parked outside (with still more under restoration or in store and not normally on view to the public). Click on the thumb-nails below to view larger images of a selection of the aircraft on display plus brief notes on each one.
There are not many aviation museums in Scotland so the Museum of Flight, an offshoot of the Royal Museum of Scotland, shines like a beacon. Its base at East Fortune has itself a long pedigree in aviation. On 2nd July 1919 the airship R34, built by the Beardmore Engineering Company of Glasgow, left East Fortune Airfield and battled against strong headwinds to arrive at Long Island near New York on 6 July. This was the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air. Later, in the Second World War, the first German Luftwaffe aircraft shot down over Britain was by pilots based at East Fortune. On 16 October 1939, Spitfires of 602 (City of Glasgow) and 603 (City of Edinburgh) squadrons shot down two Ju88 dive bombers attacking Leith.
