Imagine holding in your hands a small piece of unremarkable aluminium or fabric and letting your mind wander…
That piece was once a mighty flying machine. Perhaps military wings designed to attack and defend. Perhaps a huge airliner carrying hundreds of people every day to the place of their dreams. Those wings have been flown for thousands of hours, for several decades, in all weathers, over vast continents, day and night. In temperatures ranging from the coldest known to man all the way up to the scorching heat of the equatorial zones.
So now you can see that this small piece is not unremarkable at all and would have so many stories to tell, if only it could.
The triumph and tragedy which weaves through the entire history of man’s quest to reach for the sky is now available to us all. Retired airframes that once cost millions are being saved from the scrapper, up-cycled by small enterprises around the world, all with the same aim, to provide hand held connections to the past…
