rwoman
Jun 11, 12, 10:47 pm
Fox: Tour offers access to Memphis Belle restoration (http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/06/11/tour-offers-access-to-memphis-belle-restoration/)
I have seen other WWII bombers and have always found them impressive. The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is a short drive from where I live in the UK and also offers a fantastic collection of WWII and US aircraft.
I'd really like to see the Memphis Belle at some point and am glad to see their restoring her!
:)
The most celebrated American aircraft to emerge from the great war rests these days in a cavernous hangar at a southern Ohio Air Force base undergoing a loving and fastidious restoration — from its clear plastic nose cone down to the twin .50-caliber machine guns bristling in the tail.
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On most Fridays, museum visitors who sign up in advance online are bused over to the remote hangars for a three-hour "behind the scenes" tour that includes a number of planes being restored for display in the museum. The place looks like a boneyard for once-proud flying machines, strewn with fuselage shells, unattached wings and other pieces, but the tours led by volunteer guides who know their stuff bring the old aircraft to life.
I have seen other WWII bombers and have always found them impressive. The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is a short drive from where I live in the UK and also offers a fantastic collection of WWII and US aircraft.
I'd really like to see the Memphis Belle at some point and am glad to see their restoring her!
:)
The most celebrated American aircraft to emerge from the great war rests these days in a cavernous hangar at a southern Ohio Air Force base undergoing a loving and fastidious restoration — from its clear plastic nose cone down to the twin .50-caliber machine guns bristling in the tail.
...
On most Fridays, museum visitors who sign up in advance online are bused over to the remote hangars for a three-hour "behind the scenes" tour that includes a number of planes being restored for display in the museum. The place looks like a boneyard for once-proud flying machines, strewn with fuselage shells, unattached wings and other pieces, but the tours led by volunteer guides who know their stuff bring the old aircraft to life.