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It's also possible to take a tour with a team member, 7. Qantas Founders Museum,
which takes about an hour. Queensland, Australia
The Heritage Center was having a busy year as it was Located in the middle of the Queensland outback,
heavily involved in the British flag carrier's centenary about a thousand miles northwest of Brisbane, the
celebrations this year. Qantas Founders Museum preserves the heritage of
Australia's oldest and most celebrated airline.
Although the modern company British Airways wasn't
founded until 1974, it traces its origins back through Its collection includes aircraft from all eras of Qantas'
successive mergers and acquisitions to a post-World War history, such as the Douglas DC-3, a Boeing 747 and
I airline called Aircraft Transport and Travel. a Boeing 707, but one of its most celebrated exhibits
is a Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft that was
British Airways Heritage Collection, Waterside, Speedbird
Way, Harmondsworth, Middlesex UB7 0GA; +44 20 8562 recently recovered, after a titanic effort, from a
scrap yard in the Philippines.
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The museum is currently in the midst of a AU $3
million project named Luminescent Longreach to put
its historical aircraft collection under roof.
This will make it possible to launch a nighttime light
6. Emirates Aviation Experience, London, UK and sound show that will tell the story of Qantas
through images projected on the fuselage of the
Boeing 747, 707 and Super Constellation aircraft.
The expectation is that it will be ready by the spring
of 2020, in time for the airline's 100th anniversary.
The museum has a full program of events lined up to
celebrate.
Qantas Founders Museum, 1 Hudson Fysh Drive,
Longreach Airport, Longreach QLD 4730, Australia;
More of a theme park than a traditional museum, the +61 7 4658 3737
Emirates Aviation Experience in Greenwich, southeast
London, is a good example of the latest generation of
airline museums.
8. South African Airways Museum,
Highly experiential and with a strong focus on
Rand, South Africa
educational components for children, the Emirates
Experience center offers an up-to-date glimpse into the
commercial aviation world of today.
Located next to the Emirates cable car, which links the
two banks of the river Thames, the Aviation Experience
center features two Airbus A380 and two Boeing 777
simulators, giving visitors a chance to try their piloting
skills.
Emirates Aviation Experience, Edmund Halley Way,
Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0FR; +44 20 3440
7020 Founded and run by a group of aviation enthusiasts,
the South African Airways Museum Society has,
since the late 1980s, been devoted to the
preservation of South Africa's aviation heritage.
