Preservation Pioneers:Newark Air Museum 1963-2015

摘要

The Newark Air Museum, located on the old RAF Winthorpe airfield site, has long been a benchmark when it comes to volunteer-managed aviation museums. It was also something of a pioneer, as this useful and very worthwhile book recalls. It begins with the efforts of the museum's founders, who in 1963 identified the remains of Westland Wallace K6038 - the restored fuselage of which is now with the RAF Museum at Hendon - as their first acquisition. Year-by-year from the public opening in 1973, it looks back at significant events in the NAM's history. It's not all about the aircraft, of course, but each addition is chronicled here, the arrival in 1983 of Vulcan XM594 (which landed on what remained of the Winthorpe runway) being given a chapter to itself. Also interesting is the appendix listing those airframes that have left over the years, and a number of potential accessions that were not proceeded with - an F-14 Tomcat and a Nimrod R1 among them.