British museum Bentwaters to get A-10 Thunderbolt for displa

[Stratofreighter]

See
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... entwanters

"The Bentwaters Cold War Museum wishes to announce that it has been successful in its bid to acquire an A-10 Thunderbolt on loan from the National Museum of the USAF.

The airframe in question is an ex-509th TFS/81st TFW Bentwaters-based jet and is currently residing at Alconbury.

It is hoped that the A-10 will be on display for the first opening of 2016 which will be Easter Sunday.

To say that we are pleased to be returning a Warthog to Bentwaters is an understatement.

Our thanks must go to all the USAF and NMUSAF personnel involved in achieving what started off as a pipe dream back in 2003,

four years before we first opened our doors to the Public. Hopefully this will be a very successful 2016 for BCWM!"

http://www.bcwm.org.uk/news/

[Alpha Kilo One]

Huh? Alconbury? Heb ik onder een steen gezeten? Waar was dat ding dan verstopt? Of ben ik gewoon echt als een idioot steeds gewoon voorbij gereden?

[Wrecks]

Huh? Alconbury? Heb ik onder een steen gezeten? Waar was dat ding dan verstopt? Of ben ik gewoon echt als een idioot steeds gewoon voorbij gereden?

A-10A 80-0219 damaged 1989, stored and later preserved at Alconbury since.

[pjotrtje]

52°22'5.30"N 0°13'12.36"W

[Alpha Kilo One]

Ah so. Ik dacht aan dat ze deze verstopt hadden half achter die Tiger F-5. Maar dat is gelukkig niet zo. Ik vroeg me al serieus af of ik nu toch echt aan de bril moest. Maar dit is geen gewoon toegankelijk terrein toch?

[patrick dirksen]

(Dat deel van) Alconbury niet inderdaad. Maar het museum op Bentwaters wel gelukkig!

[Alpha Kilo One]

Kortom, weer een nummertje meer. ( of minder, net van welke kant je het benadert.... )

[frank kramer]

The "Phoenix" still lives! The story behind this bird is that it was extensively damaged, and deemed "beyond repair". It was nevertheless repaired locally by the maintenance department at RAF Alconbury and named "Phoenix". However, no-one higher up in the USAF(E) and with the manufacturer wanted to sign for the repairs and the fully operational bird never flew again...

[Alpha Kilo One]

So.... It is sort of mothballed...