The Science Museum Transportation Collection,
Wroughton
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-Festival
of Free Flight 1&2 July 2000
The transportation
outstation
was established about twenty years ago. The public could visit once a year
at that time! The annual open day - this was the third, in 1982 -
was quite an event:
Since then, things have moved on quite a bit - there
are additional special events, organised parties
can arrange visits, and a new building has been added.
A Millennium Year opportunity to revisit was taken
on the occasion of the British Hang Gliding Association's "Festival of
Free Flight" - A dual powered hang-glider
ride with Graham Slater ("GS Aviation") provided an opportunity to see
the main site as it is now, from the air.
The bungee jump crane (circled) lends scale to the
picture, and fright to the jumpers, middle right, immediately in front
of hangar "D3". "D4" is to its left, and then the latest, brand new,
£2¼m installation.
GS Aviation's Quantum 912 - and some hang-gliders,
parafoils, etc which "got away" in thermals, could explore further, into
some of the historic and prehistoric Wiltshire immediately South. A look
around on the "motor-cycle of the skies", then back to look around.
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