Arriving by installments

Arriving by installments …

On Tuesday 21st January 2020, three of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum volunteers again travelled to pick up parts of our forthcoming exhibit. First, we went to pick up a large trailer, then on to the airfield to collect the parts. We were expecting wing tips, flaps and ailerons.

On leaving the trailer hire location there seemed to be a lot of traffic about, as we drove through a small village, there seemed to be traffic lights somewhere up ahead. As we got closer, about five or six car lengths at a time, we realised that it was just heavy traffic through a small village with cars parked on the roadside.

Then we received a phone call to say that the A14 was blocked and realised that everything was diverting onto the back roads that we were using. After a lengthy hold up, we arrived and discovered that we were picking up rather more than expected. In addition to the above, there were air brakes, undercarriage doors, various panels, lots of nuts and bolts, plus an emergency generator.

Luckily everything fitted into the trailer and boot of the car, so we headed back to Flixton. Most of the content was unloaded into the container, but the wingtips were too large and heavy so they are now stored on the grass near the Valetta (off the ground on pallets). They are quite heavy and were loaded onto the trailer with a forklift, it took seven of us to unload them!

We now await a date for the rest of the airframe to arrive, we are told that it should be in place by Easter. Then we just need to put these and the other bits back on…. See previous post Arming The Valetta