American Air Museum Opens at Duxford, England

The Daily Mail ^ | 16 Mar 2016 | Emily Chan

[GreyFriar]

When the US/UK special relationship really WAS special: New £3million war museum opens telling how Britain and the U.S. worked together during the darkest days of the 20th Century American Air Museum based at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, looks at role of US air power It has 18 aircraft on display, including B-17 bomber used in WWII and supersonic SR-71 Blackbird spy plane The museum looks at conflicts in chronological order, beginning at 1918 and continuing on to the present day

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[GreyFriar]

New American Air Force museum opening at Duxford air field in England. It is part of the Imperial War Museum and is dedicated to the USAAF and USAF in Great Britain. Definitely deserves a place on one's must visit list.

[GreyFriar]

Ping for US Air Force vets, anyone interested in WWII and military aviation in general.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you ever get a chance, visit the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.

[Doogle]

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[GreyFriar]

I’ve been there several times, beginning with my father around 1961-62. Most recently last May.

[Riley]

If you ever get a chance, visit the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.

YES. I flew out escorting a friend's kitty cat and stayed in the area for a few days and he's an airplane nut and a pilot, so we went. One of the many highlights was walking through the retired Air Force Ones across the runway at the Annex. Lots of great things there.

[Pontiac]

Obama is not pleased.

[zot]

Thanks for the post and the ping. I would like to visit this museum.

[FunkyZero]

That’s quite a sight... and some absolutely beautiful examples.

[stickandrudder]

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[Little Ray]

I’ve been to Duxford and it is WAAAAAAY cool.
This will only make it better.
And don’t forget the Land Warfare Museum there, to.
And Oxford is just down the road! Save a day to tour there, too!

[jazusamo]

Great photos, had no idea there was a museum opening in Duxford, GB. Thanks for posting.

[lodi90]

It’s a reopening. The museum was built back in the ‘90s. I’m a plank owning (small) donor. Funny thing was they sold their donor list to AARP. So I was getting mail from AARP in my 20s. Ha ha.

[jazusamo]

Thanks friend, I’m old and don’t like getting mail from AARP. LOL!

[doorgunner69]

If I had one of those huge garages you see the guys with all the cool old cars have, I would want a Merlin V-12 engine to tinker with. Just that old craftsmanship to fondle.

Probably never start the thing, but just tinker with it.

[rlmorel]

Thank you! I will watch it tonight...

[GreyFriar]

I did not know there was a Land Warfare museum there. Thank you for the info. I visited the Imperial War Museum for a few hours back in Jan 1968 on a college tour of European capitols. Unfortunately I never made it back during my Army tours.

[Little Ray]

There are multiple Imperial War Museum sites. There are three in London - the War Museum at Lambeth Rd., the Churchill War Rooms, and the HMS Belfast.
At Duxford there is both the Aircraft Museum and the Land Warfare Museum. IIRC, you can (for a fee...) even drive tanks at the Land Warfare Musuem.
The Duxford air museum tries to restore their aircraft to flying condition - unlike the Smithsonian. It is probably the only place you can see a flying Hurricane, and they have a De Havilland Dragon Rapide that you can purchase a flight on.
Outside of the IWM complexes is the Royal Armoury museum. It has been moved out of the Tower to a museum at Leeds.
One very sad thing I encountered there was a nasty strain of PC. For curators of weapons museums, they are rather anti-gun.

[T-Bone Texan]

I went to one of the war museums in London - the one with the enormous naval guns in front.

There was a virulent strain of political correctness running through the place. I wore my USCGC Munro cap and got odd hostility from a visitor and an employee, I guess because folks thought I was in the military.

It was several years ago but I remember how out of place that behavior was. It’s a war museum for goodness sake.