Our second visit today with much better weather and for one reason or another still got no further than hanger 2.
The atmosphere is so relaxing and today peaceful and quiet; you can sit out on the patio watching the GA arrivals and departures over a nice cup of tea. The Bedfordshire Steam and Country Fayre is being held in Old Warden park this Friday to Sunday adjacent to the airfield so if you were not able to get tickets for DX then this could be a very pleasant alternative.
Today we were early enough to have lunch with a selection of in-house cooked meals all at a good price. We had the Turkey, stuffing and leek pie which was excellent.
We had an interesting chat with a few of the staff/volunteers who were very busy preparing agricultural equipment and tractors to take over to the show.
We noticed that both the Collection and the Swiss Garden had won an excellence award this year from Tripadviser.
Had another great day only spoilt on getting back and hearing the news about MOSI.
Getting the hot bulb tractor going I believe it is 1935 single cylinder 9lt. Could sit and listen to it just barely ticking over all day. Please note there is an aeroplane in the picture!
This was made by the company that paid for the collection. Zoom in and look at the cast lettering.
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The speedometer was an optional extra. The main gear is fitted to the spokes!!! Hope they had plenty of time on their hands.
Ah a gear change on a bike I can actually understand.
Just look at those fantastic sliding doors, oh and Steve trying to get out of the picture for some reason.:D
Apparently they have some ‘planes here as well so we thought we ought to go and find them so back to hanger 1 and on to hanger 2.
The place is full of little gems like this
Not quite sure how this got in!!
This is just a flavour to hopefully wet your appetite but you do need to come and taste them for yourself. I have not been into WW1 aviation but how can you fail to just love these.
There are still four more hangers to go full of ‘planes and many other interesting engineering artefacts, photographs models and more.
DX for the next three days but we hope to get back to OW on Monday.
This is in no way intended to be derogatory but how did this event differ from Biggin 75? where all 27 aeroplanes, including 5 Hurries were parked up together for close viewing.
Not sure if the P51 was +1.
And yes I know it was a paid event.
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