A great day at Moorabbin Air Museum

by David Burton on May.03, 2010, under Club outings

A bit after 12 noon a modest turnout of Stephen Edmonds, John Hadfield and myself met at the Sandbelt Hotel for a leisurely Sunday lunch. Arriving at the museum around 1:30pm, WCC attendance doubled upon us meeting Leif, Natalie and Dale.

Despite an overcast day and some challenging shooting conditions inside the large dark hangar, there were many photo opportunities for those with an off-camera flash – jet turbines, piston engines, a fighter jet and more; while outside were several large commercial aircraft on display; 25 in total.

Putting claustrophobia in her stride, Dale got some exclusive cockpit time at the controls of some historic wartime flying machines while Stephen, John, Natalie and myself tinkered about and discussed the workings of a jet engine on display.

An enjoyable and interesting day was had by all.

1 Comment for this entry

Dave Sumner
May 4th, 2010 on 9:50 am
I did turn up and saw you and Stephen arrive at the Sandbelt. I talked to John but I was too crook to come along, not being able to get out of my car because of my knee.

Sorry to let everyone down

Dave