Today we visited the Scottish Museum of Flight at East Fortune airfield, about 15 to 20 miles from Edinburgh.
East Fortune Airfield was a military airfield from 1916 to around 1960, and is listed as a historic monument by virtue of the very large number of wartime buildings which survive in good order.
After World War II, the airfield was handed over by the Royal Air Force to the United States Air Force in Europe for operations during the Cold War, but although they extended the runway to accommodate jets they did not use it but returned it to the Royal Air Force later in the 1950's.
My big regret in life is never having flown on Concorde.
Scotland's only Concorde has her own dedicated exhibition hangar.
Up the gangway and over the wing.
Having worn my other Freedom kilt aboard Duxford's Concorde earlier in the year it seemed only fair that the CADPAT kilt should have the same opportunity
Concorde's forward passenger cabin.
A final look at Concorde, before we move onto other areas of the museum in my next post.
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