New Imperial Airways museum

I was out there on Wednesday this week for this first time, sampling the ales in the aviation-themed pub, the Goddard Arms Freehouse in Clyffe Pypard, of which the museum will be a part. They plan to open the museum later this year, which will be a sort of conference room at the back. As the HP-42 project progresses, sections will be displayed in the museum apparently. I was also pleased to hear that the project is still very much alive, as I hadn’t heard much recently. The pub is a bit out of the way, but is only 15 minutes drive from Swindon and the M4. Well worth a visit, even for the pub-side of things (lots of pictures, props and a few odd’n’ends like the fins from a Miles Messenger), and they do a very nice pint of ‘Vulcan’ (or you can have ‘Concorde’), but do what I did and get someone else to drive. The pub also acts as a tea room.

Andy

Google is your friend :eagerness::

http://www.imperial-airways.gb.com/booking-hall

First I heard of this museum and I wish it all the best. A pretty small museum though and in a pretty out of the way place; a few miles from Lyneham. Thank you for alerting the forum to this new museum.

Looks like Team Merlin, the ones trying to build a replica Handley page HP.42 are in on this as well: http://www.team-merlin.com/#!__imperial-42 This is good news as I thought that project had died a death.

Edit: News is a bit confusing. I assume that they are saying the museum will be open this July/August and that the July 2012 date underneath refers to the launch of the website.:confused: