The Science Museum site at Wroughton used to hold, in the 1980s and 90s some excellent public open days. On this occasion in 2007 was possibly their last public open day and a somewhat low key affair by comparison. I have three photographs here I thought I would share.
1 – Showing a leading edge slat of the HP Gugnunc slowspeed demonstrator, not often illustrated.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=225048&d=1391077952&thumb=1&stc=1
2 – If you ever wondered where the other wing of the South Kensington Short SC1 was, here it was at Wroughton lurking amongst many other objects in Hangar L1.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=225050&d=1391077976&thumb=1&stc=1
3 – A question: among the many objects in L1 was this one hidden up on the racking.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=225049&d=1391077963&thumb=1&stc=1
It is apparently an aircraft engine complete with surrounding structure, but what is it off?
By: stirlingeffort - 5th February 2014 at 10:47
You might be interested in some photos I posted of the Science Museum aircraft at Wroughton. They were taken during the Great Warbirds show in 1992.
The link is as follows
http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=38757
Graham
By: TheMightyOz - 1st February 2014 at 15:04
There was an open day (well, “Festival of Innovation” they called it) in 2009. I posted here at the time http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?94074-Wroughton-Pics-12-09-09
Oz.
By: Arabella-Cox - 31st January 2014 at 22:39
It could be from the famous Mick Shaw scrapyard haul of the 1960’s.
Mick’s father ran a scrap yard which cleared Farnborough of ‘captured enemy material’ included in which there was a huge pile of German engines of all types. Mick stuck his neck out and said that some of them should be preserved, which is one of the reasons we have a many and varied selection in various major museums around the UK.
Can’t say where this example originated from but it looks a likely candidate.
Anon.
By: HP111 - 31st January 2014 at 19:14
Thanks for the pointer. Browsing around for pictures, I found one of a Siebel Si204 post-war in British markings (in an Aircraft of the Fighting Powers). So it would seem that examples of the general engine type did find their way into British hands. That says nothing about the provenance of this particular object tho’.
By: Arabella-Cox - 30th January 2014 at 11:56
The last item looks like the underside of an Argus As410 engine power egg. It is an inverted Vee, air-cooled, 12-cylinder engine used in the FW Weihe and the Ar96. It was built and used by the French, post-war but this looks like a original German example.
Airflow shutter at rear (left hand end) with the integral oil cooler hanging loose in the centre still connected by its flexible hoses to the engine. The oil cooler is normally fixed to a central lower cowl portion which hinges from the rear downwards to allow access to the centre spark plugs, etc.
Anon.
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