I have worked on many of the Aircraft at DUXFORD , mainly the WW2 Aircraft as this my speciality ,and am lucky to own one of the Spitfires based here .
My father flew hundreds of hours on that Monarch liveried Bristol Britannia (4:10) as flight engineer. Monarch sold it to the museum for £1 when it was retired.
@Mark Hepworth my father was flight engineer and did some of those Australia trips. He used his middle name so was known to most as Niall Duggan. He later retrained on the Boeing 720B that Monarch ran . He took redundancy when they moved to 757's as they were two crew and no engineer and he didn't take their offer of retraining as a pilot.
Strange, the Shackleton and the Victor you see in the conservation hangar were static displays outside (where the old airliners are at the start of the video) for years. The elements must have taken their toll on them. Duxford will need more hangars soon.
Muy pobre..."la batalla de Inglaterra" mil aviones ingleses y dos alemanes un Messerschmitt Me-108 y un Messerschmitt Me-109 con motor Merlin....un desastre !!!! Por lo menos se dignaron a mostrarme y de lejos a un Heinkel He-162.....no gano nada con ese museo. Hay muchísimos mejores !!!!
Duxford is for me the best aviation museum in the UK. .Second comes Cosford .and Hendon. Saying that we are blessed with lots of great aviation and old aircraft museums in the uk .
I wonder whether an Airspeed Ambassador version re-engined with turboprops would have had a chance. They did this with some success to the Convair CV-440 Metropölitan, extending its service life
I like the BAC 011. When I went to school in the mid-eighties all the conversation stopped when one of them took off on nearby Stuttgart airport. The noise was just incredible.
