aircraft Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/aircraft/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:37:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Britten-Norman Trislander WAS iconic https://mechtraveller.com/2025/04/the-britten-norman-trislander-was-iconic/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/04/the-britten-norman-trislander-was-iconic/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:14:00 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11643 An interesting article appeared in the Southern Daily Echo regional newspaper yesterday, about a Britten-Norman Trislander joining the collection at the Solent Sky museum in Southampton Iconic Trislander at Solent Sky Museum in Southampton What struck me was some of the slightly mean-minded comments about the Trislander, challenging whether it should be described as ‘iconic’. […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/04/the-britten-norman-trislander-was-iconic/feed/ 2 Air & Space Museum, Le Bourget, Paris https://mechtraveller.com/2023/12/air-space-museum-le-bourget-paris/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/12/air-space-museum-le-bourget-paris/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:07:40 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9560 The Air & Space Museum (Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace), sprawled around the magnificent art deco terminal building at Paris’ former passenger airport, Le Bourget, is France’s premier aviation museum. It’s huge, and well worth the journey to the outskirts of Paris to visit. Only, make sure you set aside plenty of time because […]

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