21 March 2019

London to Cambridge & IWM Duxford

Another holiday, another roadtrip. Today is the 1st of January 2019.



First stop is the Imperial War Museum in Duxford



Airy car park

A bus that used to carry soldiers to the front during WWI



Harrier Jump-Jet on the ceiling


Drone from the '60s!!!







Cockpit of a Concorde testmule

Concorde nose lance



Gold plated Dragunov, captured in Iraq


The famous Rolls-Royce Merlin V12. 27 liters of displacement













Duxford Aerodrome. A working airfield












Counter rotating propellers


Mobile machine shop

Spot the 4 cylinder engine and radiator in the corner


Westland Lynx, the fastest helicopter in the world back in the day

An auto-gyro

German V1 Rocket, The Flying Bomb


Fluffy flight commander

This is the restoration workshop

Operations Room during the Battle of Britain

From this small room they supervised much of East Anglia's airspace

The American hangar. Most of the planes are crude replicas





A late model Willys Jeep


A Tiger replica










And then Cambridge...

The most photographed building in Cambridge. Kings College Chapel


Some kind of weird mechanized and digitized time piece














Bridge on the river Cam




Scale model of the city for the blind