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

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8 comments:

  1. Pete.30 August 2022 at 23:03

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

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  2. Graham1 September 2022 at 17:57

    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.

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  3. Nigel Drury2 September 2022 at 13:12

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

    Was there a Part 3 to this series?

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  4. Tim Gow2 September 2022 at 16:35

    Pete
    Well worth a trip.

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  5. Tim Gow2 September 2022 at 16:36

    Graham
    I think I could spend days on end there!

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  6. Tim Gow2 September 2022 at 16:37

    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?

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  7. Geordie an Exiled FoG5 September 2022 at 00:50

    Wow!

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  8. Mark Hides16 September 2022 at 17:44

    Hi Tim,

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

    MH

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