Fleet Air Museum

Fleet Air Arm Museum

After taking enough photographs of trains, cars and ships I wanted to increase my options of aircraft and speaking with a friend they mentioned the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton would be worth a visit. 

Run by the Royal Navy, the museum has the world’s largest naval aviation collection situated across four large halls with two floors explaining the whole history of the collection and the Navy Air Arm. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect but this place was fantastic with a collection that spans all eras of aviation including WW1 bi-planes, WW2 carrier borne aircraft and modern Sea Harriers and helicopters. 

The place is huge which allows them to spread the collection out and although some aircraft have barriers around them, others you can walk freely around and beneath the wings. If you thought you were getting bored with the brilliant exhibits, the third hangar is interactive and you ‘fly’ onto an Aircraft carrier by helicopter and can see the planes taking off and landing whilst walking around more modern planes.  

The fourth hall is dedicated to leading edge technology including my favour plane, Concorde which is the first British built version used for testing supersonic speed, plus you can also sit in a fighter jets cockpit.

This was a brilliant day out and as you can see from my photographs below I took a huge number of shots which now makes it an extremely difficult decision what to include in the book. The only guaranteed place belongs to Concorde. 

If you are looking for a great day and are slightly interested in Aircraft, I could not recommend this place more. I have since learned that the Royal Air Force have their own museum so this will have to be a trip for another time after the book is completed. I hope the photographs below inspire you to visit.