title A Day Out at Duxford, Cambridgeshire - 9th March 2014 intro 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. imgp6536 Fred and Harry at breakfast imgp6537 Harry checks out the breakfast menu at the Hotel imgp6539 The Boys watch a bit of telly imgp6541 St. John the Baptist, or the Duxford Chapel imgp6542 Our hotel for the night - a Holiday Inn imgp6543 The first exhibit is a Polaris ICBM imgp6544 A Rolls-Royce Trent engine imgp6546 Hanging around under a Sunderland flying boat imgp6547 Isobel and Harry under a mighty Lancaster bomber imgp6552 Under the belly of Concorde imgp6553 Concorde's starboard engine bay imgp6554 A top view of Concorde imgp6556 The Duxford aircraft hangar imgp6557 Concorde and the Lancaster imgp6559 In an adjacent hall, "Quilt World" takes place imgp6560 Fred learns about missiles imgp6562 Fred has a go of some interactive exhibits imgp6567 Harry sits on an exhibit imgp6568 The pre-production Concorde's flight deck imgp6571 Some sort of Spitfire relative imgp6572 Isobel inspects an English Electric Lightning imgp6574 A Shackleton Mark 3 imgp6576 Fred looks at a Shackleton Mark 3 imgp6578 Complex engine mechanics imgp6580 Fred in the working aircraft hangar imgp6582 A Spitfire in bits imgp6585 We wander over to Memphis Belle imgp6587 B-17 bomber Memphis Belle imgp6588 A Swedish air force plane in for restoration imgp6591 More planes in bits imgp6596 Harry and Fred trundle along the wall of the café imgp6606 Stearman in flight imgp6612 Harry flies around like an aeroplane imgp6616 A Boeing Stearman does a bit of a display imgp6632 The Stearman lands as Fred runs around imgp6638 The Stearman taxis in imgp6647 Duxford's control tower imgp6648 An Airspeed Ambassador imgp6649 Vickers Viscount 701 RMA Sir John Franklin imgp6651 Fred and Harry are blocked by a herd of Cubs imgp6652 The flight deck of a Bristol Britannia imgp6655 A Bristol Britannia's wings imgp6660 A Monarch Airline's Bristol 175 Britannia imgp6662 A Spitfire in one of the original hangars imgp6663 A mock-up of a crashed Bf/Me-109 imgp6664 A real bit of Luftwaffe tail imgp6665 Fred stands in front of a Spitfire imgp6667 Isobel stands around imgp6668 A very orange-nosed De Havilland Vampire Trainer imgp6670 A big stack of "car park full" signs imgp6671 Fred points up to the sky imgp6672 One of the original WW2 hangars imgp6674 Messerschmitt and Spitfire imgp6676 Another Spitfire, in its original home imgp6679 FRed looks at a Sea King helicopter imgp6682 We exit the building imgp6685 Nosher is amused by the icon depicting "no barbeques"