Sleap Museum
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:52 pmAfter looking at the active side of the field I went to have a look in the on site museum. It's mainly all recovered crashed aircraft.
This is a Merlin from a MkIIa Spitfire P7304 which was involved in a collision during training with another Spitfire. Joseph Albert Noizet the Belgian pilot of P7304 was killed. As I remember (infomation was missing from my previous visit) the wartime records showed that the body had been recovered from the site, but when the site was excavated in the 70's they found human remains. The proper authorities were called in and the pilot's remains were recovered and repatriated
A Lancaster top turret, they have a Miles Martinet canopy as well which was being used as a cold frame in someone's back garden
This was outside, a rather sad looking Piston Provost (or so I believe, I'm prepared to be proved wrong), wings are just behind
The sign says it all really, apparently as the result of another collision, poor chap. There were lots of these sorts of training accidents at the Shropshire Airfields
RR Kestrel from Miles Master T8827 which crashed near Tern Hill in April '41
A larger shot of the museum, the fuselage is a replica, but I think I could just about get my monitor and PC in there while no one is looking........
This is a Merlin from a MkIIa Spitfire P7304 which was involved in a collision during training with another Spitfire. Joseph Albert Noizet the Belgian pilot of P7304 was killed. As I remember (infomation was missing from my previous visit) the wartime records showed that the body had been recovered from the site, but when the site was excavated in the 70's they found human remains. The proper authorities were called in and the pilot's remains were recovered and repatriated
A Lancaster top turret, they have a Miles Martinet canopy as well which was being used as a cold frame in someone's back garden
This was outside, a rather sad looking Piston Provost (or so I believe, I'm prepared to be proved wrong), wings are just behind
The sign says it all really, apparently as the result of another collision, poor chap. There were lots of these sorts of training accidents at the Shropshire Airfields
RR Kestrel from Miles Master T8827 which crashed near Tern Hill in April '41
A larger shot of the museum, the fuselage is a replica, but I think I could just about get my monitor and PC in there while no one is looking........
