Cold and wet in York

[Court Line Flyer]

I went to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington yesterday for the first time. What an axcellent museum that is! Cold and wet day, though.

[Buggyman]

Great photos.

Been at least 10 years since my last visit, must drop in again on my next trip to the deep South'

Allan

[Airspeed]

It DOES look cold and wet, Karl
We had a very similarly painted Nimrod at the Avalon air show a few years back, Number 27; I see yours ends in a 0.
Another favourite of mine, the Victor, looking fit to do its job.
Thank you for sharing. Any others more than welcome as far as I'm concerned

[Paul K]

Great museum. Haven't been back since they got the Mirage IV, so maybe this year.

[PeteP]

Any others more than welcome as far as I'm concerned

Not wanting to hijack CLF's thread in case he had some more, Mike, I've waited before putting up some I took on a much sunnier visit to YAM in 2010. It was during a short mid-week break in York and the previous day had been spent in an equally enjoyable visit to the National Railway Museum. A 25-minute bus ride from York brought us to the museum where we were well looked after. I was a volunteer at Tangmere at the time and spent much of the visit muttering things like. "if only WE had this much space to play with!"

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Pete

[Buggyman]

Thank you Pete. You've given me a target to be able to visit YAM later on this year as I'm having a pretty bleak time at the moment.

Thanks again.


Allan

[Airspeed]

What a collection
Great shots, Pete. I see that they did different markings each side of the Halifax, 346 and 158 Squadrons.
Lovely detail on the spinning device for the bouncing bomb too
Thanks for posting.

[PeteP]

You've given me a target to be able to visit YAM later on this year as I'm having a pretty bleak time at the moment.

Well, if you're anything like me, Alan, spending a few hours wandering around old aeroplanes will cheer you up no end. Hope things pick up for you soon.

Pete

[PeteP]

What a collection

Yes it is and I think they've added more in the 14 years since those photos were taken. The Halifax is a real mishmash with the main part of the fuselage from a Halifax II and the wings from a Hastings but it's been really well done and serves as a fitting memorial to the Halifax squadrons. Unless you can get to Trenton, I guess it's the closest most of us will get to seeing the 'real' thing.

Pete

[Archer]

There's this one of course....

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YAM is a great museum, I visited in 2013 but I'm sure it's only improved since! I keep track of WS788's ongoing restoration on UKAR, it's worth a look if you haven't done so already. They have really spruced up that Meteor since the photo above was taken.