BCWM
Yup I am now on the membership at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum officially! I spent the day up there last Sunday being shown around the entire place.. What was nice was the up close and personal visit to the Sepecat Jaguar (ex RAF) that’s in the process of being restored. Its housed in a hardened aircraft shelter(HAS) that was once used by an aggressor squadron based at BW. Before the base closed this was one of a cluster of 5 hangers used by F16s. Quite spooky really… What was fucking awesome was standing in front of the massive steel doors as they opened up – warning alarm bells ringing at the same time… once the doors opened the Jaguar was sitting there… What a beauty!
I dare say I will be up there at least one Sunday a month now working at the museum – and yes that entails a pseudo uniform – probably a black BCWM t shirt but with a combo of USAF BDU cammos…. Yeehaa!! Lol
Its a while since I have enjoyed something this much. Getting there takes just over an hour on the motorbike so that’s all taken care of too.
Pics of the Jag and HAS to follow.
Whilst at the BCWM I met up with Richard Flagg – a prolific and well known aviation/airfield historian – we started conversing in the Airfield Info Exchange forums and have now become friends – in fact we might well be off out together this weekend to look at some airfields in Essex. How cool is that? Richard has an amazing collection of images he has taken all over the UK (and abroad) documenting airfields and their buildings.
Its all things aviation a go-go!!
Work is fucking PANTS atm – so soul destroying you could not even dream it up or imagine a worse fate…I HAVE to get a local job somehow…
Aaaarhh!
