Tuesday 30 August 2022

Brussels Military History Museum - part 4

On then to the aviation hall - by far the biggest 'room' in the building!  Again the photos, though apparently in a random mix, have in fact been as carefully curated as you've come to expect...

 

The galleries visible contained mostly WW1 aircraft but were closed when I visited.  So I'll need to go again...

Dakota with Paras - part of a Congo exhibit
Maurice Farman 'Shorthorn'
Dassault Mystere
F-104 Starfighter
Ju-52
F-86 Sabre in Portuguese colours.  All the best people have one of these link...
C-119 Flying Boxcar - an exhibit you can walk through!
Mirage F.1
Good old Mirage III
Fouga Magister - rather more colourful then the one I built link
F-84G Thunderjet

Gerpard SPAA. 
F-16. I remember seeing Belgian F-16s above RAF Leuchars in the 1980s when they were new and exciting - and now here's one in a museum!
Belgian AIFV - similar to the Dutch army's YPR-765
MIG-23 Flogger
A curiosity - British Lloyd Carrier fitted with a 90mm AT gun.
M-113 fitters' track

Leopard 1
RF-84F Thunderflash and F-84F Thunderstreak
Mirage III again
Belgian-built Landrover in the Congo display
F-4 Phantom
Montgolfier balloon.  A large model - the figures are 1/32 scale!
Another Landie - this one packaged for air landing.
M-47 Patton

8 comments:

Pete. said...

Looks rather good there Tim- quite the mix of exhibits.

Cheers,

Pete.

Graham said...

I lived for many years just around the corner. Many happy Sundays and indeed lunchtimes spent there , exhibitions were changed regularly. There was a fine gallery that went from the End of WW1 through to the D Day landing beaches. You ended up walking of the ramp of an LCA. I used to particularly like the Imperial Russian Guard exhibition with all its mess silver.

Nigel Drury said...

The Russian silver collection was excellent, interesting history as to its movements.

Was there a Part 3 to this series?

Tim Gow said...

Pete
Well worth a trip.

Tim Gow said...

Graham
I think I could spend days on end there!

Tim Gow said...

Nigel Drury
I wondered who'd spot that. And I knew it would be you. Regular readers will be not at all surprised to learn that Part 3 follows Part 4 in due course.... I could renumber them but where would be the fun in that?

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Wow!

Mark Hides said...

Hi Tim,

Trying to mail you but getting a mailbox full, response.

MH