Wonderful group
What a truly wonderful group we have had the pleasure of showing around the hangar today...
Big Orange and Loud!
No, not a Beverly Hills zumba meeting, but a wonderfully noisy fire appliance that hails from Penzance Heliport. She's a Scammel...
Engine relocation
This week after much planning we relocated the huge Rolls Royce Conway engine over to the engine zone in the hangar....
Union Jack Dak
Big surprise on Monday to see this beauty gracing the tarmac at Coventry...
Long way round
It’s funny how things work out isn’t it? Throughout my airline career I’d made sure I continued to build my skills on light airc...
Big Orange and Loud!
No, not a Beverly Hills zumba meeting, but a wonderfully noisy fire appliance that hails from Penzance Heliport. She's a Scammell Mk10 Crash Tender with a 14.5 litre, marginally silenced Cummins V8 that probably violates several strategic arms limitation treaties. When she starts up - and we seem to be finding several excuses to do so - car alarms go off in Plymouth.
She's immediately become the most popular exhibit among our younger visitors, though we do have to shoo away the big kids who work here to let them get close.