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General Category => Events => Topic started by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:50:23 PM



Title: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:50:23 PM
popped along to this little aircraft museum out woodley way near reading yesterday. some interesting stuff there but a bit cold. i enjoyed looking at the models that were on display. i can appreciate the work that goes into these. it was interesting reading about the history of the area during ww2. very cheap to visit only £3.50 for adults.
we're gonna organise a triumph cruise out to it about march for the register and tssc members.


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:51:28 PM
panaramic view from the entrance door


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:52:38 PM
sea venom scale model


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:53:28 PM
beaufighter I scale model


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:54:24 PM
grumman hellcat scale model


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:55:30 PM
assorted scale models


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:56:53 PM
mustangs planes not the car


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:57:36 PM
another selection


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 01:59:23 PM
scale 'v' bomber victor. i believe they were called 'v' bombers as they all started with the letter 'v', victor, valiant and vulcan.


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 02:00:06 PM
fairey gannet


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 02:00:43 PM
fairey gannet cockpit area


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: renegade53 on January 03, 2011, 02:02:09 PM
finally the duke of edinburghs handley page herald


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: BikerGran on January 03, 2011, 03:35:42 PM
I went there once as it was a 'Round Britain Rally' landmark - I have no particular interest in planes but I thought it was interesting - once I found it, that is!


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: Manky Monkey on January 03, 2011, 10:06:23 PM
Where exactly is that then?
When I left school in '78 I served a 4 year apprenticeship as a printer at Huntley, Boorne & Stevens, a biscuit tin & aerosol printing company. The factory was on the old Woodley aerodrome site, just outside Reading, Berkshire.


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: BikerGran on January 03, 2011, 10:33:24 PM
http://home.comcast.net/~aero51/html/directions/map.htm (http://home.comcast.net/~aero51/html/directions/map.htm)


Title: Re: not exactly an event
Post by: Manky Monkey on January 03, 2011, 10:52:48 PM
Can't remember the road names -it was a long time ago!