Mystery Postcard

Amazing what you can do with windows from a scrapped bus.

So this makes it an Airbus? 😮
Sorry. Won’t happen again. Really.

Mam Air at Mamer

Nice mock up, seeing it bought back good memories – I stopped and had a meal there in about 1966 whilst on a scooter tour of Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland.

cheers

Allan

Haven’t seen the film since I was a teenager, but my memory is that the Rutland Reindeer was a somewhat modified Avro Ashton. Google images is no help on this one – can anyone conform or confound my recollection?

I think you’re confusing “No Highway” with “Cone of Silence” The Reindeer was a badly mistreated HP Halton with (IIRC) a Brabazon nosewheel and that bizarre tail unit, but one of the Ashton research aircraft appeared in “Cone of Silence” Fictional name of the plane escapes me, but I can check when I get home tonight.

Wieesso to the rescue again! Saved me all that time looking up Mamer in Lux. and the USA, oh no, I did that!:D

it is not a real aircraft but rather a mock up.

**Tongue in cheek mode ON**

No, really! You must be kidding us!

**Tongue in cheek mode OFF**

Tillerman.

It was a Gallery, a Restaurant and a Travel Agency. It wasn’t a real aircraft but a well known landmark for over 37 years. It was demolished and scrapped around 2002 – the reason – financial difficulties. 🙁

‘La tête de Mamer !
RadioCockpit est de plus en plus lu en Belgique, grâce notamment à des rédacteurs de choc. J’ai trouvé un article qui relate la triste fin d’un restaurant-avion à Mamer, qui fut pendant près de 37 ans un des symboles de la commune.
Il ne pouvait pas voler mais était réputé pour ses formes esthétiques et aérodynamiques ainsi que pour son originalité, et a renfermé, pendant de longues années, un restaurant et en dernier lieu une agence de voyages.
Or, il a récemment été démonté et mis à la ferraille. L’incompréhension de la population est grande. La raison du crash de Mam’air – comme on appelait le jet – serait, d’après son ancien propriétaire, des difficultés financières. Il coûterait trop cher et encombrerait l’accès à son dépôt…’
2002-02-01
http://www.eurocockpit.com/archives/indiv/E000659.php

Martin

It is a restaurant on the Luxembourg/Belgium border. As may memory serves (and I have driven past it a few times), it is not a real aircraft but rather a mock up.

Haven’t seen the film since I was a teenager, but my memory is that the Rutland Reindeer was a somewhat modified Avro Ashton. Google images is no help on this one – can anyone conform or confound my recollection?
I also think I’ve seen this one in the flesh, so to speak, in Luxembourg as wieesso says.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=229057 #9
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/newk/Ashton_01.jpg

A great “bitsa” – looks it might be by the same designer as the “Reindeer” in the film of Neville Shute’s “No Highway” 😀 😀 😀

Haven’t seen the film since I was a teenager, but my memory is that the Rutland Reindeer was a somewhat modified Avro Ashton. Google images is no help on this one – can anyone conform or confound my recollection?

I also think I’ve seen this one in the flesh, so to speak, in Luxembourg as wieesso says.

It was/is a gallery in Mamer, Luxembourg…
…and doesn’t look the Dassault Flamant slightly different? 😉
http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/Dassault%20Flamant%20Photographs.htm

Martin

luxembourg?

Not my postcard I’m afraid. This is a cross posting from a car forum.

Moggy

A great “bitsa” – looks it might be by the same designer as the “Reindeer” in the film of Neville Shute’s “No Highway” 😀 😀 😀

Any date on the rear of the pc Moggy?

Roger Smith.

I believe that is the very rare and obscure Dassault Flamant Hec. One of the first French airliners to offer a full restaurant service on all flights.

Unfortunately the weight of the galley equipment kept it permanently grounded.