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And don’t forget...

Don’t imagine that Brooklands was only about cars. With a landing strip down the centre, aircraft assembly and maintenance and a busy flying school were part of the daily mixture.when an aircraft crashes in a sewage farm? That sewage plant existed here and yes, aircraft did sometimes crash in it. The flying club house still exists outside the grounds of the Brooklands Museum.

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