Today we took a short trip down the road to the
Berkshire Museum of Aviation based at the former Woodley airfield near Reading. Woodley was the home of the
Miles Aircraft manufacturing company and also the infamous site where ace pilot
Douglas Bader crashed and lost his legs (although this didn't stop him returning to the skies during WWII and later escaping from a German prison camp).
Fairey Gannet T.5
Sadly all that really remains of this once great industry is a few fairly run down factory units and a dozen or so streets bearing aviation related names.
Handley Page HPR.7 Dart Herald 100
Height of aviation luxury in the Dart Herald 100
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