Latest posts tagged with #CrateEscape on Bluesky
Hidden in our Stafford store are RAF & film history gems: DB200 Zündapp & Triumph TRW bikes from The Great Escape, plus Flt Lt Anthony Hayter’s uniform.
Help us move them to our new public Collections Hub—by sponsoring a box: youtu.be/OiXDrPgqcCc?...
#TheGreatEscape #CrateEscape #Conservation
Shropshire’s RAF story stretches back to the First World War ✈️ Our latest #CrateEscape film 🎬 highlights a remarkable pane of glass from RAF Tern Hill.
With less than 1% of our collection on display, we’re moving 50,000 artefacts to our new Midlands Collections Hub 📦
Please help: bit.ly/3OMDAnR
Walter escaped the crate.
The robot fell in love.
The banana didn’t make it.
Bob’s building a bunker in the breakroom.
Dispatch #8 is here, and it’s 57% successful, 100% unhinged.
thewinkreport.com/walter-escap...
#TheWinkReport #Dispatch8 #CrateEscape #WalterWinkwink
👠 Julie Gibson’s mess dress shoes—worn by the RAF’s first female pilot in 1991. One of 50,000+ items heading to our new hub.
📦 Sponsor a box: https://rafmuseum.pulse.ly/6w2kablb6n
#CrateEscape
📆 We showed you shiny gold shoes—did you guess right? 👠 They belonged to Julie Gibson, the RAF’s first female pilot in 1991.
📦 Sponsor a box: https://rafmuseum.pulse.ly/rogbiplhyo
#CrateEscape
💥 Tom Hopkins reveals the SUU gun pod, fitted to RAF Phantoms after Vietnam showed missiles weren’t enough. A powerful fix for close-range air combat. 🔫✈️ #CrateEscape
📆Earlier this week, we showed you a piece of painted metal marked with tally lines and asked you, 'What is it?', scroll down this feed a bit. Did you get it right?
Watch the video to find out and then please consider sponsoring a box for the #CrateEscape
👉 bit.ly/4nV16ME
#MovingHistory #RAF
🤔 WHAT IS THIS?
Battered & borrowed, this metal piece holds tales of courage & loss. In 1943, two brave airmen died stopping it from completing its deadly mission, before it was repurposed. 💔
💬 Know what it is? Drop your guess!
📦 Sponsor a box: lnkd.in/eDWHQzH5
#EveryBoxTellsAStory #CrateEscape
📆Earlier this week, we showed you an image of a grey box-like object and asked you, 'What is it?', scroll down this feed a bit. Did you get it right?
Watch the video to find out and then please consider sponsoring a box for the #CrateEscape
👉 bit.ly/4eK4wNZ
#MovingHistory #RAF #MovingStories
🤔 WHAT IS THIS MYSTERY OBJECT?
It’s heavy. It’s boxy. It helped win wars. 👀
It's also one of 50,000+ items moving to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands!
Hint: It helped aircrews see the unseen… 🌊📡
Guess below! ⬇️
Sponsor a box: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape
#CrateEscape
Remember that curious little object we teased earlier this week? 👀 It’s one of MI9’s brilliant escape tools! 🕵️♂️💡
Watch Assistant Curator Caitlin reveal its secrets 🎥✈️
Then help us move more RAF wonders into their new home: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape 💙📦
#HistoryInMotion #CrateEscape
🤔 Tiny, round, and deceptively clever— it's one of 50,000+ treasures heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands as part of the #CrateEscape
But what is it?
Hint: It might’ve helped point the way to freedom…
💬 Guess below!
📦 Please help us by sponsoring a box at bit.ly/3ZyboI5
A note kneepad used by test pilot Jeffrey Quill when he flew a prototype spitfire in 1936.
🦿 Spitfire style secrets unlocked!
This snazzy knee pad helped test pilot Jeffrey Quill juggle notes and time in 1936. Now it’s flying into our new Collections Hub with 50,000+ treasures.
📦 Sponsor a box, join the adventure: org.pulse.ly/uzabvcwkyh
#EveryBoxTellsAStory #CrateEscape
What is this object? Please tell us by commenting below.
Call to action, asking the reader to sponsor a box as part of the Crate Escape Project.
Rough, worn & packed with purpose—it's 1 of 50,000+ objects heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands.
But can you tell us what it is?
🤔 Hint: It was strapped to pilots on test flights
💬 Drop your guesses!
📦 Sponsor a box & support the move: bit.ly/3ZyboI5
#CrateEscape #RAFHistory
🚚✈️ The Crate Escape – Our Journey Begins! We're moving thousands of historic RAF objects from MOD Stafford to our new Midlands home, opening in 2027.
Help preserve these stories by sponsoring a box today 📦👉
www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape #CrateEscape
#RAFMuseum #CrateEscape
Image shows a Winged Camel Statuette of No.45 Squadron
Call to action to sponsor a box as part of the Crate Escape.
✈️ Mystery solved!
Meet the Winged Camel 🐪 – mascot of No. 45 Squadron RAF, once stationed in Iraq 🇮🇶 and cast in silver for formal dinners.
Now heading to our new Collections Hub 📦
🔗 Sponsor a box now & help support RAF history: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape
#CrateEscape #RAFmuseum
✈️ Can you crack the case? 🔍
This curious mystery object is one of 50,000+ RAF treasures heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands. But what is it?
🧐 Hint: Its squadron mascot was a flying camel...
Got a guess? Drop it below 👇 We’ll reveal all soon.
bit.ly/3ZyboI5
#CrateEscape
🎬 The Crate Escape: Watch the Mission Unfold! 📦✈️
We’re on a once-in-a-generation mission to move over 50,000 historic RAF objects to a brand-new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands—and we need your help!
👉 Watch now and get involved: bit.ly/4kPGIub
#CrateEscape #SponsorABox #SupportHistory
Another team just off to pick up their 'Crate Escapee', they should be back with their RAF artefact in a few minutes ....
the-crate-escape.raiselysite.com
Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
#TheBigLiftOff #CrateEscape
The Big Lift Off is TODAY at RAF Museum Midlands! We’re relocating 50,000+ objects to a new Collections Hub—and some are making a daring Crate Escape! 🪂
From skydivers to flypasts & vintage vehicles, see how our history is moving in style! 🛩️📦
Drop by Hangar 1 today.
#CrateEscape #BigLiftOff #HLF
