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He\u2019s an expert on aircraft at Yeovilton\u2019s Fleet Air Arm Museum and a familiar face from television documentaries, now senior curator David Morris is highlighting some of his top 100 favourite items at the museum during a special exclusive evening at 6pm on Tuesday 3rd December.<\/p>\n
The evening coincides with the publication of two new books by David, both available on the night. \u201cThe Fleet Air Arm and RNAS* in 100 Objects\u201d and \u201cCorsair KD431 revisited\u201d. The Fleet Air Arm Museum has one of the last remaining Second World War Corsairs painted in authentic colours.<\/p>\n
David Morris, senior curator at The National Museum of the Royal Navy\u2019s Fleet Air Arm Museum explains<\/strong>: \u201cThose attending the evening might be surprised at my choices. They include a simple deck hook or arrestor hook, the immensely strong metal hook fitted to aircraft and used to catch a wire on a ship\u2019s deck to bring the aircraft to a halt. This is perhaps the one object that is unique to naval aviation. It is perhaps \u2018the\u2019 most definitive naval aviation object in the book.<\/p>\n \u201cProbably my all-time favourite involves First World War Naval Air Fitter Henry Allingham, who was born in 1896, alive in three centuries (he died in 2009 age 113) and possibly unique in that he had the potential to have seen every object in the book. The bronze bust of Henry, on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum simply has to be object No1 in my list of favourites.\u201d<\/p>\n Doors open at 6pm and tickets cost \u00a315 and include mulled wine and mince pies, rum and gin tasting and an opportunity to visit the museum and its ship. Tickets are available online at www.fleetairarm.com\/event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He\u2019s an expert on aircraft at Yeovilton\u2019s Fleet Air Arm Museum and a familiar face from television documentaries, now senior curator David Morris is highlighting some of his top 100 favourite items at the museum during a special exclusive evening at 6pm on Tuesday 3rd December. The evening coincides with the publication of two new … Continue reading Fleet Air Arm Museum’s Aircraft Expert Hosts Special Evening Showcasing Top Artefacts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,220,10,55],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-305","tag-fleet-air-arm-museum","tag-news","tag-november"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cOnly six years after man had successfully flown for the first time in 1903, the Royal Navy saw the potential of taking flying machines to sea. Initially they were used for aerial surveillance but quickly became involved in combat. We are so lucky to have a vast collection \u2013 Europe\u2019s largest – at the Fleet Air Arm Museum – and it\u2019s been thrilling to pick some of my favourites to share.<\/p>\n