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Newly-graduated Royal New Zealand Air Force officer Charlie Haines recently completed a three-month stint at the Air Force Museum, while waiting to start his pilot training course at Ohakea. In this blog article, he shares some of the insights he gained into what goes on behind the scenes to care for our Air Force’s heritage. Click the link in the bio to read more. #AirForceMuseumNZ #PeopleOfTheMuseum #RNZAF #CollectionCare
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Discover our #MuseumFromHome and explore over 6,700 in our online photograph collection! With a range of images available to browse, our collection has a lot of stories to tell... Let us know in the comments below what story you have discovered! www.airforcemuseum.co.nz/photographs #AirForceMuseumNZ #MuseumFromHome #OnlinePhotographCollection
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Keep the kids busy at home with our free and fun downloadable activities! Get colourful, build your own jet plane or help the aircraft navigate through the maze to a safe landing spot. Click the link in bio to download our activities for free! Share your masterpiece with us by uploading a photo on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #AFMKids #AirForceMuseumNZ #KidsActivities #AviationFun
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Every day, objects in our collection present our team with unique challenges to overcome if we are to look after them in the best possible way. Some are easy to resolve, some are a bit more difficult. Very few objects are identical, and where they are, their condition might call for an individual solution. Once such item is this piece of front windscreen glass from a crashed German Messerschmitt Bf.110 aircraft. Weighing in at just under five kilograms, it’s a hefty chunk, with an overall thickness of 60mm made up of five layers of glass. It is possible to see the lamination where the windscreen has shattered, and the anti-fogging elements sandwiched between the outermost layers. You would not have wanted to drop this on your foot. Read more on our blog (link in Bio) #AirForceMuseumNZ #Collections #Storage #HandleWithCare
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Happy Birthday to our Air Force! Today marks 83 years since the RNZAF officially came into being as an independent service. Read more about the process which led to this moment on our latest blog (link in Bio). Image 📷: Some of the front-line aircraft in service with the RNZAF at the time of its formation - Vickers Vildebeests - in formation over Auckland city. From the collection of the Air Force Museum of New Zealand. #AirForceMuseumNZ #HappyBirthday #83YearsYoung #RNZAF
