Temora Aviation Museum Announces Exciting Changes

[Guest Glenn]

Temora Aviation Museum is changing the format and timing of its flying days to enable more flying opportunities and provide visitors with a more in-depth experience. In the past, flying days have been held every eight to ten weeks and typically included most of the Museum collection. From July this year, we plan to fly twice a month in a completely new format titled Aircraft Showcase Days where we will fly two or three of the Museum’s aircraft and showcase them in detail. This will allow many more visitors to experience our flying activities.

 

 

 

Aircraft Showcase Days will be held on the first and third Saturday of every month with the aim of providing visitors with a personal, interactive and in-depth experience with two or three of the Museum’s aircraft. Visitors will witness the aircraft being towed from the hangar and watch the pre-flight inspection, servicing and refueling as it takes place in front of them. The pilot will strap in and start the engine and then the flight will take place. The flying display will vary from a simple handling display to aerobatics or formation flying. The aircraft will land and taxi back to the visitors where they will have the chance to have a chat with the pilot, take photographs, and inspect the cockpit and engine. Audio-visual presentations both in the cinema and the Display Hangar will enhance the stories of veterans who will be invited to share with our visitors their wartime experiences. At the conclusion of the flying activity, the Engineering Hangar will be open to all visitors. We have rarely allowed access to the workshop areas, but now visitors will be able to take a closer look at the most diverse range of aviation engineering activities anywhere in the world. Our Engineering Team will demonstrate the projects they are working on and the unique processes, materials and techniques required to keep this fleet of vintage aircraft flying.

 

 

 

Education Program

 

We are also announcing an expansion of our activities to include an Education Program, which offers special curriculum experiences to high school students studying Australia’s involvement in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Schools will have access to a tailor-made Temora Aviation Museum excursion program. In the coming weeks, the Museum will post on its web site a History Education framework document. Students visiting the Museum will also have access to excursion work sheets and materials, which will assist in their studies and understanding of Australia’s role during World War II, Korea and Vietnam

 

 

 

In planning for the upcoming Museum changes, President and Founder of Temora Aviation Museum David Lowy said: “I am really excited about these new initiatives. We have had 10 very successful years and now there will be more opportunities for visitors to see our historical aircraft in flight.

 

 

 

“We are also enthusiastic about broadening the scope of our activities to include an educational component that will provide students of Australia’s history the opportunity to touch, hear and see our history in actionâ€.

 

 

 

Aircraft Showcase Days will take place on the first and third Saturday of each month commencing Saturday July 3rd 2010. As our flying calendar has been reallocated in support of Aircraft Showcase Days, our previously scheduled June, August and November Flying Weekends will not take place. Some of our visitors will need to alter their travel plans and we apologise for this inconvenience.

 

 

 

[Wingnut]

I have been to the Temora Aviation Museum website - unfortunately there is no new program information yet as to which aircraft are planned to be flying on these Aircraft Showcase Days. I know everyone wants to see the Spitfires flying - but for example I would like to get my father there for a day when the Canberra bomber is flying, given the years he spent maintaining them in his RAF career. I hope this sort of aircraft specific information is available soon.

 

 

[scrumpy]

Tis a great disappointment to see the end of the flying weekends at Temora. There is no way i would drive down from Newcastle just to see 2 or 3 aircraft do a few laps. What can they be thinking????

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

More info in this email from TAM

 

Airshow

 

Following our major announcement last week we would like to thank everyone who took the time to send us their thoughts, comments and compliments regarding our flying format changes. We do appreciate your feedback as it enables us to understand what you – our visitor – values about the Temora Aviation Museum.

 

 

 

One aspect made very clear is that our new format will make it difficult for visitors traveling from a long distance to see the entire collection flying together. So today we would like to announce that in addition to our Aircraft Showcase Days we will hold at least one major airshow event each year, which will include visiting aircraft and aircraft from our own collection. We plan to announce the first date in a few weeks which will give all of our visitors plenty of time to make plans to attend.

 

 

 

Aircraft Showcase Days

 

Our first Aircraft Showcase Day will be held on Saturday July 3rd, 2010 here at the Temora Aviation Museum. The Museum will open at 10:00 with the flying program commencing at 11:30. The admission for Aircraft Showcase Days will be Adults $12, Adults over 65yrs $9 and Children 3-18yrs $6. We will be posting on our website an advanced schedule detailing which aircraft will be flying to enable our visitors the opportunity to plan their visits accordingly.

 

 

 

For the July 3rd Aircraft Showcase Day we will be featuring and flying the RAAF Sabre, one of the Museum’s Spitfires and the Tiger Moth. Stay tuned to the website over the next few weeks as we release more details on Temora Aviation Museum’s Aircraft Showcase Days!

 

 

 

Wirraway

 

The Temora Aviation Museum’s Wirraway is traveling north this weekend with Lars Larson and Andrew Bishop heading to Queensland to participate in the Gathering of Harvard’s and Wirraway’s which is being held in Toowoomba. This annual event which combines classic cars and aircraft is hosted by the Rotary Club of Toowoomba and our friends at Aerotec. The display presents a collection of classic machines – including vintage cars, trucks, hot rods, military vehicles, motorbikes, classic cars and aircraft. This year they are endeavouring to “round up†as many Harvard’s and Wirraway’s as possible and the Museum is sending its Wirraway up to join in the celebrations. If you are nearby, festivities commence on Sunday, 2nd May from 9am at the Toowoomba Airport. For more information, click to view their website. http://www.rotarydavidhack.org/classicmeet.php