Sunday, 12th July.
Today we spent a few hours at the Yorkshire Air Museum. This is our first cultural and non-essential shopping trip out since mid-March.
The museum is at Elvington, a few miles south of York and is based on a WW2 Bomber Command airfield. It still has some flying of private planes but no commercial flights. Also, part of the runways is used for time trials by a local motorcycle club and another part of the site is now a commercial and light industry business park.
During WW2, RAF Elvington was home to Bomber Command Handley Page Halifax bombers, flown by the RAF and Free French Air Force personnel.
I took a lot of photographs. Here are a few.
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| Hanley Page Halifax MkIII, FFI markings |
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| Same Halifax MkIII but with RAF markings |
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| A rather crowded corner of the hangar. |
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| Early helicopters. |
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| A Luftwaffe ME 109 |
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| A Tilly, a Humber I think. |
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| A Commer RAF bus |
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| A RAF Harrier. |
I have lots more photos of the planes on display outside the hangars to list.
Hope you enjoyed it and interesting to see the photos.
ReplyDeleteSuper photos - thanks for this - nice to get out! I have no knowledge of most the exhibits, but the little utility van is a Standard, I think. The groundsman at my old grammar school used to use one for his runabout (the war was over by then, by the way!).
ReplyDeleteGood that you’re able to get out and about again.
ReplyDeleteAny idea what the picture of the running man with the gun is in the ME109?