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Old 18th Jul 2023, 20:19
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chevvron
 
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Originally Posted by oncemorealoft
Thnarg, it’s one of the three Vickers Windsor high altitude bombers. It was designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson and first flew in 1943. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Windsor.
Photo taken at RAE Farnborough taxying along runway 22 which, by this time, was downgraded to taxyway status; I knew it as 'The Arrestor' runway because several types of catapults and arrestor gear were built and tested on it before they were moved to RAE Bedford in about 1955.. In another photo of a Windsor you would be able to see Farnborough Abbey (which houses the remains of Emporer Napolean III) directly on the centreline.
The Windsors were trucked to Farnborough for assembly and test flying, Foxwarren being a T2 hangar at the junction of the A245 and Redhll Road also known as Silvermere Road and which contained several other dispersed research sites owned by Vickers which are derelict but still there.
Latterly Foxwarren was the home of the London Transport Bus Museum which has now moved to the main Brooklands site.
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