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Historic aircraft returns home to Prestwick to Ayr 800

(PRWEB) 19 June 2005

The next event in Ayr 800? Calendar year long activities to celebrate the 800 th anniversary this year of the grant Ayr Royal Burgh status? Will celebrate an important date in AyrshireÂ? is the story that takes place on Saturday 25 June to the golden jubilee of the first flight to commemorate the Pioneer double in 1955.

two 16-passenger Pioneer was designed and built in the aircraft factory at Prestwick airport in Scotland with a need for short takeoff and landing features, so that may be in remote parts of the world can be used with small and very basic facilities of airports .

Some of the stories about the construction and operation of Twin Pioneers in public administration and the RAF were reported at a conference on the aircraft for the Marine Hotel in Troon at the 25th June, the day will be held 50-year anniversary.

The anniversary will be marked at the weekend by the return of a dual-Pioneer to Prestwick Airport. Prestwick Airport is expected to land at 16.00 clock on Friday, 24 June, 2005.

owned by Air Atlantique

Coventry and the only example of the operation in the world, is Twin Pioneer G-APRS historical sightseeing flights on Saturday 25 and offer Sunday, June 26th from Orangefield, against Monkton Road, Prestwick.

Pioneer Double

in the smallest Prestwick Pioneer of the Air Ministry requirement for a single-engine aircraft designed communication suitable for the operation of small airfields originated.

its first flight in 1947, and in Form 2 in 1950, Mark developed Prestwick Pioneer is known for his ability at very low speed and manifestations of the sections very short takeoff and landing to fly. This performance is mainly due to lifting the flaps and slats, with which his wings were installed.

was in Malaysia that the unique features of the Pioneer first major deployment of our armed forces in combat against communist guerrillas, acting in a role with strong supply in the jungle, with only a small take-off and landing strips in a dense forest.

So effective was

the pioneer of the four passengers, Prestwick, that the need for much larger aircraft with similar performance was, and design work was in hand through the air from Scotland in the twin-engine aircraft, which was laid The Twin Pioneer 16 passengers, later renamed the â? Double Pin.Â?

To provide the necessary

short takeoff and landing characteristics of the wings of the Twin Pioneer, were with flap lifting bar same as the Prestwick Pioneer equipped.

prototype of the new aircraft made its first flight from Prestwick Airport on 25 June 1955. Production ended in 1962, had been built 87 Twin Pioneers, find their way into the civil service and military operating system on most continents of the world.

Like their smaller sisters

are the pioneers in Prestwick, Twin Pioneers set to enter Malaysia for the RAF had to work and the Royal Malaysian Air Force. Other tours of military service pins were twins in the fiery furnace desert around Aden and in various parts of Africa, equipped to perform many different functions, while the first and foremost as a light transport aircraft.

Civilian aircraft operated

in many countries, including Australia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Borneo, Iran, Iraq, Canada, Nepal, Morocco and Sierra Leone, and some are even twins landed in Vietnam and Cambodia.

One of the aircraft

more interesting was the G-covering work with large wing-tip mounted magnetometers and a large hatch for the camera Rio Tinto geophysical survey. The last major player in the Twin Pioneer, Flight One, used in the role of topography to 1991.

More than nine Twin Pioneers

are still present, probably the most important is G-APRS still earn their living with the air from the Atlantic as the only flying example in the world.

permanently in Scotland, the former Flight One Twin Pioneer G-BBVF at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune Airfield east of Edinburgh shown.

RAF Museum Cosford in

the west of Birmingham, one of the former 78 Squadron machines is currently in storage to build a completely new screen.

other pins are doubled remaining two are in museums in Malaysia, two in more or less airworthy in Australia, with a third under restoration for the Museum of Aviation in Australia and Switzerland.

and even appeared in Baghdad at the end of the last war in Iraq.

The Pioneers, Twin Pioneers Prestwick, Bulldog, and more recently jet streams:

In his history of 70 years, the aircraft factory at Prestwick Airport for more than a thousand new aircraft sent from five in the sky.

is a remarkable history of aviation for the Twin Pioneer has a substantial contribution. The weekend of 25 June is a unique opportunity to hear about Pioneer twice to see the sky, and even fly in it.

Pioneer Double

conference and the visit of the G-APRS to Prestwick have been arranged by the Prestwick Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society. The power of society is very grateful to Prestwick Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, Air BP and South Ayrshire Council undertakes for their support for what the Twin Pioneer again on the anniversary weekend Prestwick.

departures recovery is McIntyre Avenue, Orangefield, from Monkton Road, Prestwick be approached. For advance bookings for flights (priced at £ 50 per person) phone Air Atlantique 08 703 304,747th For more information about the local Pioneer conference in Troon or double flights 01292 477796 or phone 01 292 476032nd

Contact:

Quentin Wilson, Secretary of the Prestwick division of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Tel 01292 477796 or e-mail quentin.wilson @ btopenworld.com

About

Ayr 800:

in 2005 marked the historic town of Ayr in Scotland, the 800th Anniversary of King William the Lion of Scotland signing a Charter in 1205 proclaiming Ayr to be a Royal Burgh.

Ayr Guildry, an association of employers in the region from 1325 organized Ayr 800, a calendar to celebrate 12 months of events to celebrate the anniversary throughout the year.

Brian Martin of Ayr Guildry said: Â It seems fitting and appropriate to celebrate 800 years of history of Ayra’s about as many ways as possible?.

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? Since the beginning of this project, I’m surprised at the number and variety of clubs, associations and groups that flourish in our city to discover. Ayr 800 provides them all a great opportunity to play an important role to play in our anniversary year.

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? For individuals and businesses in the hospitality and tourism industry, Ayr 800 offers visitors the opportunity that otherwise could not win coming into our city in 2005.

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? And Ayr 800 provides an additional platform for local businesses, products, technologies and services to promote the world.Â?

Brian Martin concluded: Â Regular updates on the event calendar on the website at Ayr 800 will be posted http://www.ayr800.co.uk?

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? All companies, associations, societies and people still want a part in this great celebration of our history to take? town s are welcome and should contact us as soon as possible.�

Consultations

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Brian Martin of Ayr Guildry. Telephone: +44 (0) 1292 442 103

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John Hay, Secretary of the Ayr Guildry. Telephone: +44 (0) 1292 264 091

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