Magnificent Machines at National Museum of Flight
See monster trucks, classic and vintage cars, scooters and fire
engines at the transport event of the season!
Weekend of activities
Dates: Sat 25-Sun 26
September
Times: 10:00-17:00
Cost: Adult £10 / Conc. £8 / Child 12 and under
free / National Museum Scotland Members free. Parking £4.
Book your tickets online Group discounts also available -
please call 0131 247 4238 for more information.
Monster trucks
Big Pete, Europe’s largest monster truck, will return this year
for another car crushing extravaganza. Two shows will take place on
each day at 12:00 and 15:00. Watch as the ‘Big Pete’ and its
partner ‘Grim Reaper’ wow the crowds with an adrenalin fuelled
display!
Starduster aerobatic display
For the first time at Magnificent Machines Jim McTaggart will be
performing aerobatic displays in his Stolp Starduster Too biplane
at 11:30 and 14:30.
Stolp Starduster Too © Tom TJ Hill
All things mechanical
Join in with a celebration of all things mechanical from monster
trucks to nano technology and traction engines to training
aircraft. The National Museum of Flight will be filled with classic
cars, motorbikes and tractors all lovingly prepared by their owners
and brought along for you to see.
Vehicle types include Tractor Leyland, Bedford Bus,
Mercedes Plaxton Cheetah bus, Fire Engines, Land Rover and
Range Rover, Rolls Royce, Subaru, Morris Minor, Austin Healy,
Triumph Stag and Riley.
Mechanical parade
At 13:30 our parade of steam traction engines, racing cars,
scooters and more – will go around the site so that you can see
these mechanical marvels in action.
Tech Tent
In the Tech Tent meet research engineers who will excite you
with talks, workshops and things to see from the cutting edge
of technology. From wave power to medicine delivered by nano
bubbles and fossil bird brains to cruise missiles, the world of the
future will be revealed. This tent is made possible by an Ingenious
Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Family fun will include building your own toys from recycled
materials, technical challenges and making things that fly.
East Fortune's Magnificent Machines
There will also be a chance to look around our own collection of
Magnificent Machines inside and
out and to see Concorde the
most magnificent machine of all!