Heavy Metal!!
2nd Dec 2006, 21:56
Hey all,
Took a trip over to Kemble this afternoon, saw alot of light aircraft traffic, at one time six aircraft were in the circuit. Besides this there were the usual suspects on the scrapheap, the Lockheed jetstar I saw there a month ago is now completely canabalised ant it looks like the Austrain Arrows CRJ-100 is soon to follow.
To my surprise when driving around the airfied perimeter was a Bristol Brittania parked up on the tarmac towards the base enterance, can anybody shed any light on this impressive aircraft?
I stayed in the main parking spot off of the main road alongside the runway for the first part of my visit, later I managed to get around to the other side of the airfield down a small lane. This bought me out near the large hangar besides the european 747, whilst driving alon the main road on this otherside of the airfield i noticed a hanger with several classic aircraft types out side it. Noticably were Hawker Hunter, Sea Prince and a westland scout? Is this part of the airfield a museum and is it possible to get to (legally!!).
Regards
HM!!
Took a trip over to Kemble this afternoon, saw alot of light aircraft traffic, at one time six aircraft were in the circuit. Besides this there were the usual suspects on the scrapheap, the Lockheed jetstar I saw there a month ago is now completely canabalised ant it looks like the Austrain Arrows CRJ-100 is soon to follow.
To my surprise when driving around the airfied perimeter was a Bristol Brittania parked up on the tarmac towards the base enterance, can anybody shed any light on this impressive aircraft?
I stayed in the main parking spot off of the main road alongside the runway for the first part of my visit, later I managed to get around to the other side of the airfield down a small lane. This bought me out near the large hangar besides the european 747, whilst driving alon the main road on this otherside of the airfield i noticed a hanger with several classic aircraft types out side it. Noticably were Hawker Hunter, Sea Prince and a westland scout? Is this part of the airfield a museum and is it possible to get to (legally!!).
Regards
HM!!