A Son of the Rock

I’d been wanting to visit the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune airfield, East Lothian, Scotland for ages. Last year we finally made it.

It has all the appearance of a Second World War airfield so familiar from films.

Control tower:-

However, the airfield was first commissioned as a Royal Naval Air Station. This was the gate:-

The airfield’s complement was tasked with protecting shipping in the Firth of Forth and preventing airship attacks on Edinburgh or the navy and its base at Rosyth :-

Hangar:-

Hangar Annexe, a Nissen Hut:-