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After a long gestation period, our history of the type is nearing a landing, so watch out for announcements hereToday marks 60 years since the VC10's maiden voyage.![]()
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The VC10 was the ultimate British airliner – the biggest, most luxurious aircraft (with two double beds!) ever put into production in the UK, and it was designed and built here at Brooklands. It was favoured by pilots for its outstanding performance and by passengers for its quiet, vibration-free and roomy cabin. It was known as the "Queen of the Skies". ![]()
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The VC10 here at Brooklands is unique as it shows the luxurious interiors which were configured for Royal use by His Majesty The Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said Al Said. It was built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown from here on 17/10/64. ![]()
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Volunteers have maintained the aircraft with invaluable help from many companies and other organisations, including the RAF.![]()
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Interested in Japanese aviation - a last chance to get a copy of the current "Civil Markings of Japan"![]()
www.air-britain.co.uk/actbooks/acatalog/Japan2024--133.html#SID=15
A great survivorA VERY SPECIAL TIGER MOTH AT SYWELL 1978![]()
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This de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth was built for the RAF in 1941 as T5850. Sold postwar as G-ANRF, from 1954-62 she was owned by Gp Capt Allen Wheeler, and then for 12 years by the McAully Flying Group at Little Snoring. ![]()
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She was in pieces when purchased from Robin Neville in 1974 by David Cyster who was then serving at RAF Valley as a Gnat instructor with No 4 Flying Training School .![]()
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To mark the 50th anniversary of Bert Hinkler’s record-breaking solo England- Australia flight in an Avro Avian, David staged a re-creation with his newly restored Tiger. He set off from Dunsfold on 7 February 1978 and using just paper maps, he completed the 9,000-mile journey on the 4th March by touching down in Darwin. ![]()
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‘NRF is see here at the PFA Rally at Sywell on the 1st July 1978 not long after her return from her epic flight wearing her special livery. David still owns her, she was restored between 2015-2019 and she remains airworthy at Bagby in Yorkshire. A very special Tiger!![]()
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With thanks to Gordon Riley for the photograph.
The next in an excellent series of lectures from the Milton Keynes Aviation Society - on Tuesday 8th October 2024![]()
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Aldon Ferguson - The Allied Invasion of Iceland![]()
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After the Nazis had occupied Norway Britain was fearful that they would try to occupy Iceland and the Faroe Islands, so they made a ‘friendly ‘ invasion on 10 May 1940 when four British ships, full of Marines, landed unopposed at Reykjavik, without a single shot being fired and no loss of life. Historian Aldon Ferguson explains how the British promised to stay out of Islandic politics and were quickly accepted and the war became known there as ‘The Blessed War’ as the British protected them from Nazi invasion but more importantly gave work to the locals in building roads, bridges, barracks, hospitals and everything necessary for an occupying army. 25,000 British troops were stationed there for a while but they were needed back in Britain after France fell, so Churchill persuaded Roosevelt to take over as guardian.![]()
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This meeting begins at 20.00 at Kents Hill Community Centre, Frithwood Crescent, Milton Keynes, MK7 6HQ. Doors open at 19.30 and visitors are most welcome - £5 per head.
