Fred and Harry at breakfast
A Day Out at Duxford, Cambridgeshire - 9th March 2014
It's the day after John and Caroline's wedding in Melbourne. Seeing as we're staying at Whittlesford, which is only about a mile away from the Imperial War Museum's outpost at Duxford, it would be churlish not to visit.
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Harry checks out the breakfast menu at the Hotel
The Boys watch a bit of telly
St. John the Baptist, or the Duxford Chapel
Our hotel for the night - a Holiday Inn
The first exhibit is a Polaris ICBM
A Rolls-Royce Trent engine
Hanging around under a Sunderland flying boat
Isobel and Harry under a mighty Lancaster bomber
Under the belly of Concorde
Concorde's starboard engine bay
A top view of Concorde
The Duxford aircraft hangar
Concorde and the Lancaster
In an adjacent hall, 'Quilt World' takes place
Fred learns about missiles
Fred has a go of some interactive exhibits
Harry sits on an exhibit
The pre-production Concorde's flight deck
Some sort of Spitfire relative
Isobel inspects an English Electric Lightning
A Shackleton Mark 3
Fred looks at a Shackleton Mark 3
Complex engine mechanics
Fred in the working aircraft hangar
A Spitfire in bits
We wander over to Memphis Belle
B-17 bomber Memphis Belle
A Swedish air force plane in for restoration
More planes in bits
Harry and Fred trundle along the wall of the café
Stearman in flight
Harry flies around like an aeroplane
A Boeing Stearman does a bit of a display
The Stearman lands as Fred runs around
The Stearman taxis in
Duxford's control tower
An Airspeed Ambassador
Vickers Viscount 701 RMA Sir John Franklin
Fred and Harry are blocked by a herd of Cubs
The flight deck of a Bristol Britannia
A Bristol Britannia's wings
A Monarch Airline's Bristol 175 Britannia
A Spitfire in one of the original hangars
A mock-up of a crashed Bf/Me-109
A real bit of Luftwaffe tail
Fred stands in front of a Spitfire
Isobel stands around
A very orange-nosed De Havilland Vampire Trainer
A big stack of 'car park full' signs
Fred points up to the sky
One of the original WW2 hangars
Messerschmitt and Spitfire
Another Spitfire, in its original home
Fred looks at a Sea King helicopter
We exit the building
Nosher is amused by the icon depicting 'no barbeques'
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Fred and Harry at breakfast
Fred and Harry at breakfast
Harry checks out the breakfast menu at the Hotel
The Boys watch a bit of telly
St. John the Baptist, or the Duxford Chapel
Our hotel for the night - a Holiday Inn
The first exhibit is a Polaris ICBM
A Rolls-Royce Trent engine
Hanging around under a Sunderland flying boat
Isobel and Harry under a mighty Lancaster bomber
Under the belly of Concorde
Concorde's starboard engine bay
A top view of Concorde
The Duxford aircraft hangar
Concorde and the Lancaster
In an adjacent hall, 'Quilt World' takes place
Fred learns about missiles
Fred has a go of some interactive exhibits
Harry sits on an exhibit
The pre-production Concorde's flight deck
Some sort of Spitfire relative
Isobel inspects an English Electric Lightning
A Shackleton Mark 3
Fred looks at a Shackleton Mark 3
Complex engine mechanics
Fred in the working aircraft hangar
A Spitfire in bits
We wander over to Memphis Belle
B-17 bomber Memphis Belle
A Swedish air force plane in for restoration
More planes in bits
Harry and Fred trundle along the wall of the café
Stearman in flight
Harry flies around like an aeroplane
A Boeing Stearman does a bit of a display
The Stearman lands as Fred runs around
The Stearman taxis in
Duxford's control tower
An Airspeed Ambassador
Vickers Viscount 701 RMA Sir John Franklin
Fred and Harry are blocked by a herd of Cubs
The flight deck of a Bristol Britannia
A Bristol Britannia's wings
A Monarch Airline's Bristol 175 Britannia
A Spitfire in one of the original hangars
A mock-up of a crashed Bf/Me-109
A real bit of Luftwaffe tail
Fred stands in front of a Spitfire
Isobel stands around
A very orange-nosed De Havilland Vampire Trainer
A big stack of 'car park full' signs
Fred points up to the sky
One of the original WW2 hangars
Messerschmitt and Spitfire
Another Spitfire, in its original home
Fred looks at a Sea King helicopter
We exit the building
Nosher is amused by the icon depicting 'no barbeques'