{"id":331,"date":"2010-05-21T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tostevin.net\/?p=331"},"modified":"2018-03-30T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:26:24","slug":"tally-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Tally-Ho !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we visited the nearby Duxford airbase.  Now the site of the Imperial War Museum for aviation. Duxford has a long history of military aviation right from WWI through to the 1960s. Most famous of course for its &#8220;Big Wing&#8221; during the Battle of Britain. It&#8217;s from here that the famous Douglas Bader flew with his squadron during those long hot days in the Summer of 1940. Duxford now hosts a very impressive collection of aircraft right from WWI to the present day. The aircraft we&#8217;ve seen today are a veritable roll call of all the most exciting and iconic classics in aviation history : a WWI SE5, a Hurricane, a Spitfire, a Lancaster Bomber, a Vulcan bomber, Lysander, Anson, a Meteor, an ME109,  a Harrier Jump Jet, a Sunderland Flying boat, a Mosquito, a massive B52 bomber (cf &#8220;Doctor Strangelove&#8221;), two flying fortresses, the first proto type Concorde, a Euro fighter \u2026 the list is almost endless. The sheer size and beauty of them all was breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>Also housed on the airfield is The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum. It contains a truely staggering array of mitary hardware. British, German, Italian and Russian. All arranged in tableaux depicting them in action \u2026 FANTASTIC! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>This evening we went out for a meal with Julie before going on to the Cinema where we treated outselves to an artery hardening and mouth watering mountain of ice-cream : I had a Ben and Jerrys Vanilla plus Cookie dough tub of ice-cream hollowed out to contain hot fudge all topped with thick cream and nuts &#8211; yum !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/l_1600_1200_A41BFD8A-EFC4-4573-9701-E4C912854E03.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/l_1600_1200_A41BFD8A-EFC4-4573-9701-E4C912854E03.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  width=\"200\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/l_1600_1200_0BCBB65F-58B6-442C-80B9-FFA8BE865F23.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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