We went to the Imperial War Museum Duxford for the club car day.
The RHOCaR stand was arranged by John and Helen of the Herts area.
The day started for me with a trip over to John house, where we met up with Graham B. The three of us decided to take the backroads with Becky, Tasha and Mark setting off later in the tintop taking the motorways.
The three Hoods made good time up to Cambridge where we meet the rest of the T V H group and we made our way around to the club stand. Becky joined us an hour or so later and we set off for a look round the American air hanger which is the home of the only Boeing B-52 Stratofortress on public display in Europe.
Also in this hanger are a B-17 Flying Fortress, B-29 Super Fortress and the high speed high flying SR-71 Blackbird.
After a spot of lunch we started to make our way up to the other hangers for a look about when it came over the speaker that the B-17 Sally B would be firing up her engines and taking off to go to an airshow in Kent, some thing we had to see and just made the day.
This was followed by a fly past by a Spitfire - how cool.
We made our way around the rest of the hangers which had so many planes in them, it was all too much to take in with a one day visit.
Duxford are lucky to have eight Spitfires on display which seven are airworthy with only the Supermarine Spitfire Mk24 on static display.
As we made our way back to the club stand we saw the Sally B return from her trip to kent. what a way to finish the day off
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