Wings Museum

80 years ago today, on Saturday 17th April 1943, the residents of Guildford witnessed an unfortunate collision between two RAF Mustangs, an incident that caused the deaths of the two pilots, Dirk De Kretser and Philip Price.We also talk to author Chris Goss about his interest in the Luftwaffe and its people.For more:https://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/2023/04/podcast-raf-mustangs-collide-over-guildford-80th-anniversary/

In this episode:Monty Felton tells about his time as a Halifax Navigator in the RAF during WWIISteve Quinton guides us through the Shorts Brothers underground factory and air raid shelter in RochesterIMPS visit the museum for another visit with their military vehiclesFor more:https://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/2023/04/podcast-monty-felton-halifax-navigator-shorts-brothers-underground-factory-and-military-vehicles-visit-wings/

In this episode:We talk to Jeffrey Deere of the Morgan Sports Car ClubFollow the team to a rural location near Peterborough to collect the rear fuselage for the B-25 Bedsheet Bomber ProjectEnjoy a visit from the Invicta Military-Vehicle Preservation Society and speak to Pete Marshall about his Jeep, re-enacting, and explaining RADAR and the Dowding System to the publicFor more:https://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/2022/05/podcast-morgans-mitchells-and-military-vehicles/

In this episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Collinson, a volunteer from Bentley Priory Museum in Stanmore who we last spoke to at one of our Merlin Engine Run events last October.You can find out more about RAF Bentley Priory the Headquarters of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, the Memoirs of the Blitz exhibition and Bentley Priory Museum's opening times on their website, bentleypriorymuseum.org.ukOf course you can also discover many items and stories about the Blitz and the Home Front back at the Wings Museum. Whilst it would be impossible to say that you would really know how it felt to be there, when you step inside a genuine Anderson shelter, or see how claustrophobic an under table Morrison Shelter would be, your imagination can certainly fill in many of the gaps.Take a look at our website, wingsmuseum.co.ukhttps://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/2022/04/podcast-memoirs-of-the-blitz-at-bentley-priory/

In this, the first Wings Museum podcast of 2022:We talk to museum Co-Curator Daniel Hunt about the museum's role of remembering people's sacrifice in war, and keeping their stories alive, and visit the workshop for an update on a restoration project that we've spoken about before, the North American B-25 Mitchell "Bedsheet Bomber"...https://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/2022/01/podcast-b-25-mitchell-wing-restoration-jan-2022/

A Merlin Engine Run event gives us the opportunity to talk to:Alex Collinson about the Bentley Priory Museum "Memoirs of the Blitz" projectAdrian Harrison about the 253 Squadron Kenley Living History GroupAaron Simmons about maintaining the museum's Merlin XX engine in fully running conditionFor more information visit:  https://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/2021/10/podcast-merlin-engine-run-oct-2021/

In this episode, we discover the story of how a crash on 7th January 1944 brought a volunteer to the Wings Museum in 2020.Flight Sergeant George Ormandy, an air gunner, died onboard FR396, a B-25 Mitchell Mark II that had flown from Dunsfold in Surrey.More than 70 years later, his great-nephew, Adam Tudor-Lane, started looking into the events of that day, and where they had occurred. For more information:www.WingsMuseum.co.ukwww.facebook.com/b25mitchellbedsheetbomber/

With the Museum reopening in just a couple of weeks time, we catch up with Museum Co-Curator, Daniel Hunt, to fnd out what has been going on, what's new, and whether we will hear the sound of the Halifax Merlin XX again in 2021.....For more information, visit  www.WingsMuseum.co.uk