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Western Australian Bull Creek Collection
The RAAF Association, Aviation Heritage Museum, Bull Creek Collection at Bull Creek, 6 miles south of Perth, Western Australia. The Museum is run by the Western Australian Division of the RAAF Association, and has it's origins in 1950 when the museum acquired a Spitfire for display purposes. Since then the Museum has expanded it's housings in the 1980's to be able to display the Lancaster and Dakota the museum acquired. The Museum also has a number of WWII aircraft and displays, focusing on the operations of the Australian Catalina Squadrons in the Indian Ocean and the Australian Lancaster, Halifax and Sunderland Squadrons in Europe. The Museum also houses a replica Sopwith Camel and a Bristol Tourer which is a civilian version of the Bristol F2b Fighter.
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Bull Creek Collection, Sopwith Camel Replica. The nose of the museum's Sopwith Camel replica. The engine is an original Le Rhone 9J with a perspex crank case cover to show the workings of the engine. The propeller has markings indicating it is an WW1 original made for fitting to a 130HP Clerget on a Camel. Pushing the red button shown in the bottom of the picture causes the engine to rotate as per the original. Image courtesy of Gordon Branch |
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Two original WW1 propellers. The top one is a Camel prop for a Clerget engine. The bottom one was fitted to an Avro 504. In the background is a replica Bristol Tourer - a civilianised Bristol F2b Fighter. Image courtesy of Gordon Branch |
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Bull Creek Collection, Sopwith Camel Replica. Another shot of the Camel replica showing the spurious serial number it has been given. In addition the Camel is rigged with cable not RAF Wire as the original aircraft. Image courtesy of Gordon Branch |
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Bull Creek Collection, Bristol Tourer, a civilianised Bristol F2b Fighter. It has been left partially uncovered to show the construction. Unlike the Camel it is rigged with RAF Wire. Image courtesy of Gordon Branch |
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