Duxford
March 28, 2008 7:53 am RandomI went to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford yesterday for a nosey round. It’s a very impressive site although the exhibits are somewhat spread out along the length of the runway so it is a fair trek from the entrance down to the land warfare exhibit at the far end.
Obviously Duxford is mostly about aeroplanes, but I hadn’t realise quite how many were stashed away in there! and how varied they are too.
I’m reading The Backroom Boys at the moment which has a chapter on the development of Concord, so being able to get on board a concord was great, and the USAF exhibit was excellent too, the shear size of a B52, and the sleek design of the SR-71 awesome, although it makes you wonder what they must have up there now if that’s in retirement!
You do have to pay at Duxford (the London one is free and I think the Manchester one is too) but it is an interesting day out (if you like planes) but there are a lot of them and it’s only really they new airspace hanger which has real activities for kids.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:27
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