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The secret location of the TV series 'Scrapheap Challenge' is out of the bag,it can now be revealed that the series is filmed on a military Army establishment at Bramley in Hampshire.
Avid junksters will spot the remains of an ex Army air corps Scout helicopter and a garish Cessna 150 sitting on top of some scrap metal.
I just love the confidence these contestants have in welding wheel centres onto more wheels which are then bolted to the chassis of a vehicle ! nine times out of ten the welds break away !
What must have been the shortest ever American experimental category certificate of airworthiness, were issued to two scrapheap challenge flying machines made for the last series,the certificates were issued for a 4 hour only period,sufficent to get them flying,one of which did very well.
I think that model builders would fare well in this challenge given the ingenuity required to get things working.
Remember the two radio controlled aeroplanes made as well ? they flew these over a quarry in Bedfordshire and one crashed very heavily.
Dont you just love the characters in this series !

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