The UK is slowly reopening and I decided to pick up where I left off with one of my favourite activities, which is indoor skydiving.
The tunnel I use is an old decommissioned/repurposed military tunnel on the site of what was the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), Bedford. It was demobbed in the early 1990s and repurposed in 2005 for human flight. Originally I think there were 5 windtunnels on the same site including the VST (the vertical one I now skydive in). There was a supersonic tunnel and a couple of other horizontal tunnels.
Other than the VST, the site only has one other tunnel running as of 2021, and that's a large low-speed tunnel currently used by Red Bull for F1. I've never seen it being worked on externally before, but they are doing something to it at the moment involving a crane (see pic).
I wonder if they'll dismantle it and take it to the MK campus. It does look to me like it'd be possible to take it apart in sections for road transport then reassemble it at the destination.
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