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A Day at the Museum - Aerospace Bristol

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A Day at the Museum - Aerospace Bristol

Post by Cessna954 » Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:24 pm

Yet another CA member making a first visit to this new museum.

I was accompanied by my 7yo son and the inlaws. The main reason for going was that my father inlaw worked for BAC at Filton from 1970 onwards and was on the Concorde project for some time before moving across to the based BAC operated Dakota 'hack'. One photograph in the exhibition even showed the area of the main assembly line where he worked on installing the electric cabling.

I know that there's a couple of similar threads but here's my pick of the bunch.

Bristol 173 - G-ALBN
Image20171201-103454-Filton by Neil D. Brant, on Flickr

Britannia - G-ALRX (the one that was outside at Boscombe Down and visible from the A303 for so many years)
Image20171201-104503-Filton by Neil D. Brant, on Flickr

an original Concorde simulator - how we would love to have this in the garage at home
Image20171201-113434-Filton by Neil D. Brant, on Flickr

Star of the show - Concorde G-BOAF
Image20171201-114428-Filton by Neil D. Brant, on Flickr

Image20171201-115711-1-Filton by Neil D. Brant, on Flickr

Back in the day - taking off from IAT 1997
Image19970720-Fairford-2 by Neil D. Brant, on Flickr

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Re: A Day at the Museum - Aerospace Bristol

Post by seacat192 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:53 pm

NIce set Neil :thumb:

Looks like there were less people there than the day I chose to visit!

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Re: A Day at the Museum - Aerospace Bristol

Post by Martin » Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:38 pm

Another reason to visit although it'll probably be a while before it goes on display

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-42566093

This is ZK-EPG

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