bamf & bamrs diary

Welcome !

This page is for you, future volunteers, as well as for all those for whom air conquest is a passion and who want to have a deaper outlook of pioneers madness of new aeronautical technologies of the past.

We need you.

The purpose of this page is to present the aeronautical hall of the museum thus to you and especially the building sites in progress. This hall can continue to exist only thanks to the keen work of patience of a small group of volunteers of all horizons which maintain, restore and preserve the collection of planes of which some are there since the years 1920.

The organization of this site will enable you to discover the building sites in progress, will put to you in liaison with our team, will specify the methods of inscription, how and where us to meet and will make a nonexhaustive review of the collections of the aeronautical hall.

You can help us with your donations, please go on the website of our foundation : http://www.bamf.be/

Our email address is at your disposal for all questions, remarks etc...

Yours sincerely,

To be able to conserve and restore the collections, we had to develop a volonteer organisation.

We are working every saturday from 9am to 4:30pm.

Profil : to have free time, to be motivated, a lot of patience and may be a bit of knowledges about mechanics and planes but it is not so necessary if you want to learn.

Important : to run faster the restorations and rebuilt some parts we need to work with specialised and professional workshops, means it costs a lot of money. Then we are looking for volonteers who could be involved to find money through sponsors and partners.

Recruitment : in the office of the aviation hall, the AELR (the association wich organises the restaurations) you will pay 20 euros a year for insurance thus subscription of the revue "Brussels Air Museum Magazine".

Questions : the new volonteers are asking us if the restored planes can fly again. The answer is actually NO for a question of resources.

A complete restoration is very expensive as much as money than time. To keep these planes in flight conditions it costs much more because it is necessary to reinforce structures and engines by building new pieces and redesign new parts on machines wich were very dangerous because very fragile and also difficult to pilot. Then flying could destroy years of work and lives too ! The best solution is to build a copy with new materials and mechanic.

And we also do not have runway for take-off and landing in the park of the museum !

But if we have the possibility and because we are a little "crazy", we would do it !

Oh, by the way, we like to speak english, then language is not a problem to welcome you in our team !

For any questions : bamf.bamrs@gmail.com

bamf.bamrs@gmail.com