Weather closes Newark Air Museum

Newark Open Again

I’ve just heard that Newark Air Museum will be back open again today. 🙂

Peter – I’m told that the aircraft are OK and that there’s only a small amount of lying snow on the aircraft. The situation seems to have been helped by a lack of overnight frost in the local area.

I had a feeling it might be! :D:D

Thats the one!!:D

😉 With a little help!! 😀

Hasn’t one of Canberra’s sat on its bum after heavy snow before? T.19, if I remember correctly.

The snow levels are nothing like you experience Peter; about 6 inches worth is what I understand has fallen, but as usual a lot of the UK comes to a standstill in such conditions. This morning it took my wife 2 hours to travel 5 miles into Nottingham on the bus and even then she ended up walking the last 2 miles. No such thing as a snow route or similar here in ‘Blighty!’

As no one has made it to the museum I’ve not heard any damage reports for the aircraft – in the past such snowfall hasn’t caused any damage but we’ll just have to hope everything is OK. On the plus side it seems to now be thawing a bit in Nottingham.

When the Vulcan first arrived we had a ‘snow rota’ in case of heavy snow fall; where volunteers agreed to go along to sweep any heavy snow and stop the aircraft tipping backwards. Not sure whether this was implemented due to a RAF ‘wind-up’, but we were never called into action. :confused: The aircraft is now tethered at the nose just in case!

Normally they post any news here http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/news.php

How much snow did they get and was there any damage to outdoor aircraft?

Newark’s closed again http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/news.php