After extensive work on the site, the pedestrian entrance to the museum now has a pedestrian entrance is convenient to the bus stop and - 10-minute walk aside - to Colindale underground. Access is via Hanger 1 - enter and exit via the gift shop!
I wandered over to the WW1 hanger and started looking hard at the biplanes.
This one attracted me to the graphics, but it was hard to see its structure - and what would it look like on the page, foreshortening making it all tail? -
The view from my bench -
I "took the nearest" and before starting, looked at it from all sides -
The result, top drawn laboriously from the real thing and bottom drawn more quickly (but less satisfyingly) from the photo -
More planes -
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| Judith's Lancaster bomber |
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| Janet B |
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| Sue's scene |
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| Another view of that scene, by Janet K |
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Jo's boats and buildings
From 1918 to 1986 the air force had a marine branch |
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