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Bournemouth Airport is situated on the edge of Hurn village in the BCP Council area, 4 miles (6 km) north of Bournemouth, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the A338 and approximately 100 miles (160 km) south west of London. The airport is accessible via the A31 from the M27 and M3 motorways to the east, and via the A35 to the west.
The Short SC.1 was the first British fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing jet aircraft. It was developed by Short Brothers . It was powered by an arrangement of five Rolls-Royce RB.108 turbojets , four of which were used for vertical flight and one for conventional horizontal flight.
Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing or Conventional Take-off and Landing operation is preferred to VTOL operation. V/STOL was developed to allow fast jets to be operated from clearings in forests, from very short runways, and from small aircraft carriers that would previously only have been able to carry helicopters .
STOL (Short Take Off and Landing). STOL performance of an aircraft is the ability of aircraft to take off and clear a 50-foot obstruction in a distance of 1,500 feet from beginning the takeoff run. It must also be able to stop within 1,500 feet after crossing a 50-foot obstacle on landing.
The Bournemouth Air Festival is an annual air show held along the coast at Bournemouth, in Dorset, England. It has featured aircraft from the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, as well as civil aviation displays. Since its formation in 2008, the festival claims to have entertained over ten million people.
RAF Hurn on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1942 Northrop P-61A-5-NO Black Widow Serial 42-5535 of the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron. Martin B-26C-45-MO Marauder Serial 42-107832 of the 598th Bomb Squadron.
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The museum was founded in May 1998 as the Jet Heritage Museum and was located on the property of Bournemouth Airport. However, the following year it was renamed Bournemouth Aviation Museum. Then, due to expansion of the airport, in 2008 the museum was forced to move to a site near the Adventure Wonderland theme park on the south side of the ...