Posted on 06/05/2005 6:12:36 AM PDT by Budgie
This week I visited the Imperial War Museum's Duxford site in Cambridgshire England.
At this site, aside from many British aircraft (including a flying Spitfire and many others) is located The American Air Museum.
Here are a series of pictures from the American museum.
For those interested, there is a graphic here showing which aircraft are on display with links giving some info on each individual aircraft.
Also, the IWM Duxford website is here, http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/
The place is an hour's drive outside London, it's an old WW2 airfield, used by the RAF and the USAF during WW2 and is still a working airfield today.
Thanx for sharing!
And welcome to FR
Oops, the graphic I mentioned above is here
http://aam.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1105
Pong
Welcome to FR Budgie! Thanks for posting these great pictures.
Warbird ping
Looks like my bedroom ceiling when I was a kid, (at least the prop planes) :)
Great pics.
Mark
Neat! Thanks.
Maybe a stop off on a trip to GB.
Ping (love that shot of Habu).
"And having more than 1 B-17 is most impressive!"
Yep, and one of them is still flying
http://aam.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1104
Personally I was most impressed by the Blackbird, which is the actual aircraft that set the altitude record.
The picture of the suspended F-100 resurrected an old memory from a deployment to Tyndall AFB in Florida with our F-4c's. Some of our old F-100s had been converted to drones. As one of them taxied out some of the older crew chiefs stopped what they were doing and just stared. Some of the pilots who had flown that bird were still with us and you can imagine what they were thinking when they lined up on it.
Thanks. It was good to see the B-24 like my dad flew out of England in WWII (the Lucky Lady Bett). Love this stuff!
ping to aircraft photos.
Not to mention very selfish. I don't even have one.
I think that what impressed me most about the SR-71 Blackbird, the first time that I saw one at Wright Patterson, was just how small they are... I thought that they'd be much larger.
Mark
Great photos, welcome and great name for an aviation buff...;-)
Bigger and better than when I was at Duxford in '86. It also had a nice collection of heavy tanks at that time. The active airstrip was a nice surprise to me at the time. I remember that a P-40 and a Spit came in while I was taking my lunch.
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