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Postby XR219 » Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:52 am

I know it's not a military aircraft but I guess this goes here?

The Ark will be open to the public at Portsmouth Naval Base between midday and 4pm on Saturday, January 22 and 10am and 3pm on Sunday, January 23.

There will be access to the hangar, flight deck and operations room. Entry to the ship will be through Portsmouth Historic Dockyard's main entrance at Victory Gate.

Entry is free.

I thought this might be of interest to those who live nearby.
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Xplumberlives » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:53 am

Wish we lived closer, it would be a good trip out!
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Olicat » Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:16 pm

I might try and get there, although Dad is working on his Military aircraft markings book then.
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Stevieboy » Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:23 pm

Hers's a bit more detail:

http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/yourcounci ... 19943.html
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Jigsaw » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:15 pm

Too far for me unfortunately :(
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Olicat » Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:03 am

We are going.
Only problem is that they will expect long queues and it might be crowded.
So we'll arrive an hour early :D \M/
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Gaz » Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:06 am

Olicat wrote:We are going.
Only problem is that they will expect long queues and it might be crowded.
So we'll arrive an hour early :D \M/



Have fun mate!

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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Olicat » Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:45 pm

Ill try my best!

EDIT:
I have returned!
We queued for 1 hour to get on, and i took many photos.
The queue when we got of was about half a Km long! :-o
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Xplumberlives » Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:14 pm

Olicat wrote:Ill try my best!

EDIT:
I have returned!
We queued for 1 hour to get on, and i took many photos.
The queue when we got of was about half a Km long! :-o



Lets get those photo's processed then! ;)
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Olicat » Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:21 pm

So lets look at my processed photos! :p
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Xplumberlives » Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:23 pm

Olicat wrote:So lets look at my processed photos! :p




I already have!
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Re: Ark Royal

Postby Olicat » Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:24 pm

I know you already have :P
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