There's a Panavia Tornado in the transit hangar
A Visit to IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire - 17th August 2026
Nosher and the boys are off to Duxford for the day. This time, we discover that the Lancaster has moved out of the main hanger and there's now a chance to get up close and even have a look inside, so after we've had a good look around the rest of the museum, we return at 2pm for an interesting talk about the iconic plane and its history, before the chance to actually climb aboard and have a look. We also check up on the Shackleton - the type of plane that the Old Man was based on for several years at RAF St. Mawgan - which is still in the process of being rebuilt.
previous album: Vicky's 50th Birthday, St. Edmund's Hall, Hoxne - 15th August 2026
The Lancaster has moved out of the main hangar
The front end of the Lancaster
A five-bladed propellor on a Spitfire F.24
Irreverent humour on an armoured car
A Handley-Page Hastings, from the side
Harry takes a photo of bombs
Concorde's engine bay
The tailpipe of a Rolls-Royce Olympus
Harry walks through Concorde 101
Fred on Concorde
Concorde's oxygen tanks
Harry takes a photo of something
The flight deck of Concorde
A Sea Harrier is dwarfed by giant aircraft
Duxford's got a new Hollywood-like sign
A Gloster Gladiator is rebuilt
A shiny plane is down to bare metal
An engineer works on the Gladiator
Some aeroplane part is filed
A Westland Lysander is also being rebuilt
A late-model Spitfire in a hangar
There's a visiting Catalina PBY
Dan-Air's Avro York is outside in the sun
The boys roam around
P-51D Mustang 'Tall in the Saddle'
Fred roams around another hangar
Harry has a little sit down
A reminder that Gauntlets can fly for quite a while
More engineering in the restoration hangar
An ad-hoc workshop
Shack attack: the Shackleton rebuild continues
One of the Shackleton's contra-rotating props
Harry and Fred
The Shackleton is down to bare metal
An exposed engine bay
Harry looks around
A section of fuselage
A 12' gun
A vertical stabiliser and rudder
The shiny metal of B-24 Liberator 'Dugan'
Harry gifts some of his head grease to a B-52
The funky 50s styling of a B-52 engine nacelle
Airfix decals all over an F-15
Mission stickers and a crinkly B-52 fuselage
The front of an F-15
Harry takes a photo down part of a supergun
Fred roams around near the SR-71
The boys wander past the outdoor British planes
A BOAC Comet 4
A Vickers Viscount 701
The undercarriage of the mighty Lancaster
The tour guide dude continues
Looking towards 'tail-end Charlie'
The tail end of a Lancaster
The cramped inside of a Lnacaster bomber
A tantalising glimpse of the cockpit
Harry wanders around
Harry gets another photo
Fred and Harry underneath the Lancaster
Duxford's giant AirSpace hangar
A Hurricane comes in to land
The Hurricane taxis to its parking spot
Harry in the museum shop
We eat an ice-cream just before we head home
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There's a Panavia Tornado in the transit hangar
There's a Panavia Tornado in the transit hangar
The Lancaster has moved out of the main hangar
The front end of the Lancaster
A five-bladed propellor on a Spitfire F.24
Irreverent humour on an armoured car
A Handley-Page Hastings, from the side
Harry takes a photo of bombs
Concorde's engine bay
The tailpipe of a Rolls-Royce Olympus
Harry walks through Concorde 101
Fred on Concorde
Concorde's oxygen tanks
Harry takes a photo of something
The flight deck of Concorde
A Sea Harrier is dwarfed by giant aircraft
Duxford's got a new Hollywood-like sign
A Gloster Gladiator is rebuilt
A shiny plane is down to bare metal
An engineer works on the Gladiator
Some aeroplane part is filed
A Westland Lysander is also being rebuilt
A late-model Spitfire in a hangar
There's a visiting Catalina PBY
Dan-Air's Avro York is outside in the sun
The boys roam around
P-51D Mustang 'Tall in the Saddle'
Fred roams around another hangar
Harry has a little sit down
A reminder that Gauntlets can fly for quite a while
More engineering in the restoration hangar
An ad-hoc workshop
Shack attack: the Shackleton rebuild continues
One of the Shackleton's contra-rotating props
Harry and Fred
The Shackleton is down to bare metal
An exposed engine bay
Harry looks around
A section of fuselage
A 12' gun
A vertical stabiliser and rudder
The shiny metal of B-24 Liberator 'Dugan'
Harry gifts some of his head grease to a B-52
The funky 50s styling of a B-52 engine nacelle
Airfix decals all over an F-15
Mission stickers and a crinkly B-52 fuselage
The front of an F-15
Harry takes a photo down part of a supergun
Fred roams around near the SR-71
The boys wander past the outdoor British planes
A BOAC Comet 4
A Vickers Viscount 701
The undercarriage of the mighty Lancaster
The tour guide dude continues
Looking towards 'tail-end Charlie'
The tail end of a Lancaster
The cramped inside of a Lnacaster bomber
A tantalising glimpse of the cockpit
Harry wanders around
Harry gets another photo
Fred and Harry underneath the Lancaster
Duxford's giant AirSpace hangar
A Hurricane comes in to land
The Hurricane taxis to its parking spot
Harry in the museum shop
We eat an ice-cream just before we head home