A new exhibition will tell the stories of the aeroplanes, engines and human endeavour involved in 100 years of aviation innovation in the west of England.

The exhibition, called Flight, to run at Bristol museum & art gallery, home of the replica Bristol Boxkite, from September 18 to November 28, is part of the BAC 100 celebrations marking the centenary of the founding of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

Visitors will be able to follow the journey from the cutting edge research in today's aviation industry back through two world wars to the pioneering work of Sir George White, founder of BAC in 1910.

The display will be arranged around three key themes - flying, fighting and the pioneers - and illustrated with original artefacts, scale models and historic documents on loan from private, regional and national collections.

Archive film and photographs will bring the excitement and glamour of this past to life including footage and images of the Boxkite, Bristol fighter, Bulldog, Babe, Brabazon, Britannia and the iconic Concorde, probably the most famous aeroplane in the world and the pride of Bristol and south Gloucestershire.

Visitors will be able to listen to oral history testimonies, which share personal reminiscences of working in one of the world's most important aviation factories during World War II, through to the years of supersonic flight.

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