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2021-09-02 01:01
in England2021, Flying, Nflying
Lots of flight museums in the UK, I'm glad I got to see the main ones:
London Science Museum's Airplane Section
RAF Museum North of London
RAF Museum in Cosford (30mn from Birmingham and Stafford)
Imperial War Museum in Duxford (this one)
Flight Over Cambridge From IWM Duxford (while there, I rented a plane for a short flight)
There are multiple Imperial War Museums in the UK, and Duxford is likely the biggest plane museum in the country, 7 hangars and next to an active runway used to demonstrations and flights you can rent/pay for. I was there for opening time (took an uber from cambridge as it's not convenient to go by public transport):
I had a tour booked to get a private tour of a spitfire and sit in the cockpit. I didn't know that for just 60 times more money, I could have flown in one for 30mn. A bargain :)
Also, while I was there, I got tofly myself to cambridge for some nice pictures
and see many other cool planes fly during the day
Those planes did inspire me to do my own flight Over Cambridge From IWM Duxford.
Getting back home was also not easy, no ubers at all, and taxis were a 45mn wait. I got lucky and shared a cab with a woman who had already called a cab herself and was also going to the train station in cambridge.
this was the actual aircraft, recovered on the beach in normandy
it never had passengers, it was a test airplane for multiple systems including anti-icing and engine management
the seats in the passenger versions, were much smaller
the numbers were references to see how much icing happened
Also, while I was there, I got to
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