{"id":56443,"date":"2026-05-20T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/?p=56443"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:09:05","slug":"p7-6-at-the-national-museum-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/2026\/05\/20\/p7-6-at-the-national-museum-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"P7\/6 at the National Museum of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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P7\/6 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the museum of flight as part of their World War II topic.
\nWe enjoyed a super workshop with National Museum guide Eva where we got to see artefacts from WWII including uniforms, silk maps and compasses which were hidden in buttons to avoid detection. We also got to try out code breaking and try on some uniforms of the era.<\/p>\n

Next we enjoyed a guided tour around the airfield with David and Ken. We visited the air raid and blast shelters, museum – Fortunes of War – and hangars which contained lots of interesting planes including the WWII fighter planes Spitfire and Messerschmitt and the ultimate luxury passenger airplane – Concorde.
\nWe enjoyed boarding Concorde and learning about luxury,\u00a0 super sonic flight. We got to look in the cockpit and discovered at top speed it could travel at Mach 2 – over 1300mph!<\/p>\n

We also got to see a WWII unexploded bomb that landed in Edinburgh!<\/p>\n

After lunch we tackled the assault course and enjoyed some spectacular weather! The airfield last saw an aircraft land in the 1980s when the Vulcan arrived from the Falklands War. Even though it is now mainly grassed over, it is still easy to see the former runways, when it was in daily use in both WWI and WWII!<\/p>\n

Many thanks to National Museums and the brilliant staff at East Fortune for such a memorable day!<\/p>\n

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P7\/6 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the museum of flight as part of their World War II topic. We enjoyed a super workshop with National Museum guide Eva where we got to see artefacts from WWII including uniforms, silk maps and compasses which were hidden in buttons to avoid detection. We also got to try … Continue reading P7\/6 at the National Museum of Flight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56443\/revisions\/56462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stmaryspolbeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}