Great Britain Another Pyestock report,or is it?..for fans of Pye only

[klempner69]

You all know Pyestock and its illustrious past by now ok..I first visited in 2007 then finally in 2009.I wont bore you all with yet more pics of the various test Cells,but I will share with you,some old pics,some tech drawings that try to explain what actually went here.

For those new to Pyestock...

But you dont want see these do you....

Lets delve deep into the past ok..

I am betting you might recognise this

Air House

Air House again

Familiar view

Plant House

Cecca dry air plant

What went on in Cells 1 and 2

Controls

Cells 1 and 2

Concorde engine

RB211 in Cell 3 West

Cell 3 West

Spot the copter in Cell 3 West

And one for you Cell 4 fans

Cell 4

And one for the computer fans

Well,after reading this manual,I managed to garner some idea of what they did here,but its hard going.

Hope this has been of interest to all you Pye fans

 

[Canonguy]

nice report i was expecting to see the cells when i saw "pyestock" in the title but refreshing not to see them :cool2:

 

[skeleton key]

Thats comin in from a different angle Klemps and a nice one too

A bit more detail on what the location was really about and going on with nice visual aids :beer:

Cheers Buddy

 

[Dubbednavigator]

Nice bit of history there, not the same old.

 

[Maniac]

Funny that most mobile phones are now more powerful in terms of computing power than the computer equipment shown in that diagram.

Nice bit of history there, thanks for posting.

 

[silverainbow]

Nice, ill have a read of this when I get back later, it's good to see it from a different angle and I've always wanted to know a bit more in-depth information on the site and how it actually worked, thanks for this !

 

[shaddam]

very lovely to see and read different things about this place, thanks a lot !

 

[Timster1973]

Nice that, there are a few old archived films on Youtube that show the place opening plus the footage of the movie Sahara.