Check in for the Jet Age and Parachute Store!
Check out the latest arrivals at East Fortune and check into the
golden age of passenger air travel.
Joining Concorde, Fantastic Flight! and Fortunes of War, two new exhibitions The Jet Age and Parachute
Store are now open at National Museum of Flight.
The Jet Age
The Jet Age, a new exhibition is now
open at National Museum of Flight, East Fortune. The Jet Age
celebrates the role of the Boeing 707 in the creation of the
original "jet-set" of the 1960s.
Housed in the front fuselage of a massive Boeing 707, the
exhibition uses a mix of video footage, photographs and objects
from the time and personal stories from former air and ground crew
to explain the aircraft's role in ushering in the age of commercial
passenger travel.
Second World War Parachute Store
Newly restored to its original Second World War appearance, the
Parachute Store is where parachutes were
dried and repacked ready for use. See the original furniture and
storage used, but mind your head as our parachutes hang from the
ceiling!
The Using a 1936 Parachute Maintenance manual, the Parachute
Store has been carefully recreated. You will see the pulleys
holding drying parachutes from the ceiling, original stoves that
were used to keep the store warm and dry and a very long table
where the parachutes were laid out ready to be packed.