{"id":866,"date":"2016-03-20T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=866"},"modified":"2016-03-20T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T10:58:20","slug":"author-tom-palmer-takes-to-the-skies-at-the-raf-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/author-tom-palmer-takes-to-the-skies-at-the-raf-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Tom Palmer takes to the skies at the RAF Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 16 April 2016, acclaimed author Tom Palmer will be reading from and talking about his new book &#8211; the first in a new series; WINGS &#8211; next to the Sopwith Camel at the RAF Museum London in a series of short events at 1pm, 2pm and 4pm.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Saturday 16th April<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 1pm; 2pm &amp; 4pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: RAF Museum London, Grahame Park Way, London NW9 5LL<\/p>\n<p>The Wings series is centered around four children at a football summer camp, who find themselves propelled back in time. If they can learn how to fly the great RAF planes &#8211; the Sopwith Camel, Spitfire and Typhoon, history will lead them on a flightpath back to the present. The books were inspired by Tom and his daughter making an Airfix kit of a Lancaster Bomber two summers ago. Each book also comes with a simple model plane you can make yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Tom is writing the WINGS books with help from the RAF Museum as part of his role as Children&#8217;s Writer In Residence. In the lead up to the Royal Air Force centenary in 2018, Tom will be working with the museum&#8217;s visitors to help them get the best out of their experience. He will be offering advice on writing short stories which help visitors engage with the museum&#8217;s amazing collection. Read a wonderful blog about the setting and work with the RAF Museums here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/blog\/setting-at-story-at-the-raf-museum-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/blog\/setting-at-story-at-the-raf-museum-london\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Wings: Flyboy is a wonderful, warm tale. Stories highlighting the diversity of Britain&#8217;s troops during both world wars are rare and this one deserves a wide audience. It is a cracking read.&#8221; Bali Rai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 April 2016, acclaimed author Tom Palmer will be reading from and talking about his new book &#8211; the first in a new series; WINGS &#8211; next to the Sopwith Camel at the RAF Museum London in a series of short events at 1pm, 2pm and 4pm. Date: Saturday 16th April Time: 1pm; 2pm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/aviation-museum-news\/author-tom-palmer-takes-to-the-skies-at-the-raf-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Author Tom Palmer takes to the skies at the RAF Museum<\/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":[263,61,10,187],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-museum-news","tag-263","tag-march","tag-news","tag-raf-museum-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}