R&R Rancher
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WW II US Air Force Museum
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R&R Rancher
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoba's Interlake
Had to reboot to be able to type in the message block. Too wet to farm so I'm on vacation in Colorado. Was here today.http://www.worldwariiaviation.org/
It was closed for tours today, but a "Large donation" got me a private tour. Neat place. Main hall had a B25 and a late model P47. In the WestPac building they had an F7F. They were working on a restoration of a P38 and repairing a F4U that had flipped over earlier this year. Should have took pics, but was too engrossed with the whole tour.
Mr. Dynamite
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Love the museum in Daton! Spent quite a bit of time there myself when I visited.
I had three days and a rental car in the UK after a week in Normandy so I wanted to kill a day at Duxford. You know your at a good museum when your parking the car and they have a ME109 beating up the airfield.
^ No the pictures not upside down, the airplane is.
And the ever lovely Sally B
^ A section of Gerald Bulls "space gun" (Opps, look like we missed "space" but seem to have hit Israel instead, our bad).
On the walk up to the entrance to the American Air Museum of Duxford you walk past a long, very long, row of glass panels that are etched with the shapes of the 7,031 American aircraft lost on operations out of England during the Second World War. Very sobering to see.
^ No the pictures not upside down, the airplane is.
And the ever lovely Sally B
^ A section of Gerald Bulls "space gun" (Opps, look like we missed "space" but seem to have hit Israel instead, our bad).
On the walk up to the entrance to the American Air Museum of Duxford you walk past a long, very long, row of glass panels that are etched with the shapes of the 7,031 American aircraft lost on operations out of England during the Second World War. Very sobering to see.
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Yes Duxford!! i love that museum. i spent the whole day there like a little kid, getting to sit in a Spitfire was a definite highlite ( had to wait for most people to leave the hangar when i believe the owner felt sorry for me because i wouldn't stop staring at his plane lol)
when there was about 2 hours left in the day i realized there was that big old building at the end of the runway loaded with tanks best museum experience ever
when there was about 2 hours left in the day i realized there was that big old building at the end of the runway loaded with tanks
best museum experience everHere you go Kevwat.
The building your talking about is the Land Warfare Museum and my piece of crap camera and it being so dark inside means most pictures I took there are total crap. Rich in presentation of artifacts in what has to be the worlds largest 1:1 scale diorama, even had a small creek running through it. Half ways through the Land Warfare I started wondering why we got stuck with what we got in the CWM.
^ Cut away Ferret Mk2 at Land Warfare
The building your talking about is the Land Warfare Museum and my piece of crap camera and it being so dark inside means most pictures I took there are total crap. Rich in presentation of artifacts in what has to be the worlds largest 1:1 scale diorama, even had a small creek running through it. Half ways through the Land Warfare I started wondering why we got stuck with what we got in the CWM.
^ Cut away Ferret Mk2 at Land Warfare
Other than Rhode Island i would be amazed if there was a state with less than three aviation museums. Colorado has a few. In a three state drive this week I think there were six or seven I considered, cut down to two or three, there are just so many of them in the US.
That's impressive and I think having the whole package at Duxford really makes it surreal being that its one of the bases used during WW2. Seeing planes in a hangar is one thing, seeing planes with where they actually fought from and where the pilots lived is a whole different experience
Couldn't say it better!
