Newark Ashton gets wheels

摘要

Volunteers at the Newark Air Museum have recently completed a series of tasks in order to make the front fuselage of Avro Ashton WB491 mobile. This has involved fixing specially designed wheeled rigs to the wing attachment points on the rear of the fuselage, enabling the section to be lifted off the ground for the first time since it was delivered to the museum during 2003. In the coming weeks awheel rig will also be fitted to the nose of the aircraft and then the fuselage will be towed to a new location on the museum's Winthorpe Showground site so that restoration and rebuilding work can get underway.