SAS getting new toys - traffic chaos to ensue around Kemble.

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The SAS have purchased a 747 fuselage which is being moved from Kemble to Hereford from 7am tomorrow...

Expect traffic issues!



http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/11...

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just read, there are two shipments, another the following Saturday.

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Max_Torque said:

jhfozzy said:

and then the windows get blown in

Weren't they "only mean't to blow the bloody doors off"??? ;-)

No that was the Zulu's There were bloody hundreds of them!

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aeropilot said:

Presumably the photo in the article isn't of the fuselage in question.......given that it isn't a 747

Indeed, Dc10?

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Speculatore said:

It won't be taken to Hereford it will go to the training ground at Pontrilas Army Training Centre (PATA) on the Abergavenny road where the training wing is based.. The main base moved from PATA (Stirling Lines) many years ago and is now in the old RAF base just outside Hereford.

Having read several news articles, some are saying this is going to a scrap yard, so possibly not SAS related at all!

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Chrisgr31 said:

So if the plane is going to Staffordshire why is it stopping on route in Herefordshire? Come to think about it bearing in mind Kemble is north of the M4 as is Herefordshire why did they go on the M4 at all?

Anyone know where they are now? Someone here must of seen them!

No, but I believe the exercise is being repeated tomorrow.