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Red Bull's Toy Box
« on: August 03, 2013, 06:21:42 AM »
Good article with great photography about Red Bull's aeroplane collection:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/01/peek-inside-red-bulls-toybox/?pid=615&viewall=true
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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2013, 06:26:31 AM »
On my list of places to visit.
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Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2013, 08:14:35 AM »
Great article, thanks!  The venue looks great, too!

Cheers,

Logan
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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2013, 02:54:57 PM »
I visited Hangar 7 in 2010 and it's a pretty posh place.

Unless things have changed since I visited, I think you'd need to make some sort of special arrangement beforehand to visit Hangar 8 as I asked and was told quite bluntly that Hangar 8 did not host visitors.

At the time I visited, the Hangar 7 floor was taken up by some F1 and rally cars along with the B-25 Mitchell (the high point of the visit for me), Stearman, Cessna Caravan, Huey Cobra and BO-105. Four Alpha Jets were sitting on the apron between Hangars 7 and 8.

Here's a few pics I took during my visit:






Looking longingly across the apron to Hangar 8...



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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2013, 02:17:28 AM »
Quote from: upnorth on August 03, 2013, 02:54:57 PM

Unless things have changed since I visited, I think you'd need to make some sort of special arrangement beforehand to visit Hangar 8 as I asked and was told quite bluntly that Hangar 8 did not host visitors.


You mean my status as BTS Führer is not enough?  I would think they should be inviting me...
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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2013, 06:15:31 AM »
I enjoy visiting museums .... but I'd rather not visit an Advert :(
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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2013, 06:30:12 AM »
It's not a museum, it's a private collection. Red Bull own, and more importantly, operate
the aircraft so can mark them any way they please. Frankly their P-38 is the most beautiful example
of that aircraft, only trumped aesthetically by the original XP-38 prototype.

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Offline Rickshaw

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Re: Red Bull's Toy Box
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2013, 03:25:42 PM »
Some of the Red Bull markings look pretty good IMO.   Some of them are a bit overwhelming as well.  Yes, they are their property but a little more subtlety often doesn't go astray, despite what Adverting hacks might prefer to believe.

I like the P-38, it looks very nice in the polish metal with the small Red Bull.  The Cobra looks pretty good with the big Red Bull.  I suppose it all depends on how well it's done.   I think they went overboard with the Vixen but again that's just my personal taste.
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