Coming to Imperial War Museum Duxford, the first thing you will see is a huge building/hangar. Don’t worry – it is huge inside as well!
Take a look at the picture above – Lancaster, Vulcan, Short Sunderland and much, much more. There is space for all of them!
Unfortunately my visit in England did not give me that last chance to see a Vulcan in the air…
The Duxford Concorde G-AXDN was once used for testing and flew for the last time in 1977 when it was donated to the Duxford society. Recently its electrical and hydraulics systems were restored making it the only one in the UK with a working nose cone!
The fighting face of a Mosquito…
…and of the Westland Lysander.
De Havilland DH 9 was one of the first aircraft stationed on the Duxford airfield.
The Fairey Swordfish torpedo-bomber, here equipped with a radar under its nose. The Swordfish entered service in 1936 but this aircraft was delivered as late as in 1944 and specialised in night operations.
One section has a number of American aircraft. Above the Mustang…
,,,and here is the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and then…
…the ugly but most efficient Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
And what about this fighting face? The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
