Thursday, 14 February 2013

New Material Enters the Collection: The Aeroplane Spotter


Several issues of The Aeroplane Spotter dating from the Second World War have been donated to the museum recently. The archive team has found it quite remarkable how often vertical flight machines feature in magazines produced for the public as early as 1942. 


The magazines feature pictures and information on many weird and wonderful rotorcraft from the period. Among the bizarre and rare there remains information on a few of the old favourites in their infancy, an example being this article regarding the legendary Sycamore when it first entered service with British forces in 1947.



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