Uniquely Shuttleworth - Comet Traditional Geocache
Uniquely Shuttleworth - Comet
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A round lock & lock box along a bridleway near Old Warden airfield.
This cache, one of a series of caches celebrating the aircraft of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, is on the Old Warden Circular Walk.
The series has a bonus cache: each cache contains a letter/number combination that you'll need to find the bonus.
Some waypoints for parking, and a suggested route around the series, are given on the page for the bonus cache (GC1Q0ME)
The de Havilland DH.88 "Comet" was built in 1934 specifically for the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia. It took only nine months from beginning design to the first flight. The unit price of £5000 wasn't enough to cover development costs, but worked out well for the race winner who collected a £10000 prize!
Three Comets competed in the race, won by G-ACSS "Grosvenor House" - now owned by the Shuttleworth Collection.
Two Comets were built later.
G-ACSS suffered several accidents while being "evaluated" by the RAF, who sold it as scrap. It was restored by BAe at Hatfield, and is the only airworthy Comet in the World.
You can see the Comet at the collection all year round, and taxiing at Shuttleworth air displays, held approximately fortnightly May to October.
(visit link)
Amenities: The Shuttleworth Collection has a cafe, gift shop and toilets, there's a pub that serves food in Old Warden village, and a farm shop in Upper Caldecote.
Caches in the series:
* GC1MPXR (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - Bleriot
* GC1MPY7 (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - Lysander
* GC1NHNE (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - Sea Hurricane
* GC1PGG5 (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - Martlet
* GC1PGGH (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - SE5a
* (GC1PTAD (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - Comet)
* GC1Q0ME (visit link) Uniquely Shuttleworth - Bonus
Additional Hints
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