Abingdon Air & Country Show
We’ll have an information and sales stall at this event and our volunteers will be pleased to see you if you’re attending, to chat about our plans and our progress with the restoration of our Vickers Viking “Vagabond”.
The event will feature an afternoon flying display (weather permitting) and on the ground there will be classic cars, ex-military vehicles, a crafts marquee, live music and more.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Twilight Runway Challenge
We’ll be present with a stall as Blackbushe holds it’s annual community fundraising event for local charities.
It’s a fun, family-friendly event which takes place along the runway, after it’s been closed to aircraft movements.
You can run, walk, cycle, scoot or skateboard your way round the 3km, 5km or 10km route, while raising vital funds for a local charity or school of your choice.
If you choose to support a charity whilst completing the Challenge, simply choose the cause, set up an online fundraising page and share it with friends/family/colleagues. All the information and links needed to do this can be found at this link.
Gates open at 4.00pm, with the start at 5.15pm.
Amanda Wickwar - A brief history of the UK's nuclear deterrent
Many believe that it was the USA that developed the atomic bomb. However, the UK were not only the first to prove an atomic bomb would work, we were also the first country in the world to commit to taking steps to build one.
What ultimately stopped us was the constant drain of resources in our war effort. It was only after Pearl Harbour was bombed that the US finally took real interest in the work that the UK had done, and we relented to becoming a junior partner in the Manhattan Project, sending 20 British scientists to Los Alomos.
After WWII ended, the US McMahon Act closed us out of further nuclear collaboration. It was then that Clement Attlee gave the go ahead for plutonium production and a nuclear weapon programme of our own.
Amanda will be talking us through that fascinating story!