Museums with commercial airliners

[Streps]

Brooklands have a Concorde flight experience I found excellent. When I was there a kid was going on it to help with their fear of flying. You even get a boarding ticket and a tour of the aircraft with access to the cockpit. Definitely worth a trip in my opinion. Loads of other cool things to do if you line it up with a car meet up. Mercedes World next door as well.

[andy97]

MB140 said:

Having spent many an hour sat on vc10 I can confirm the seats are rear facing.

Only on RAF ones, I think.

[FourWheelDrift]

andy97 said:

MB140 said:

Having spent many an hour sat on vc10 I can confirm the seats are rear facing.

Only on RAF ones, I think.

Yes. Commercial airliner VC-10s faced forwards.

[MB140]

andy97 said:

MB140 said:

Having spent many an hour sat on vc10 I can confirm the seats are rear facing.

Only on RAF ones, I think.

Correct.

[Howitzer]

Definitely use Duxford, there are multiple planes and the volunteers are fantastic with kids. My two are 3 and 5 and they always listen to their silly questions and are friendly.

Also get some peltor kids ear defenders, they take the harshness of the sound away and fit a child’s head perfectly. We always take them to loud places as sometimes it’s hard to tell what kind of noise can upset them. The last Time my eldest wore them was watching a Vulcan display but he decided to remove them halfway through.

Also the train idea is very good, it will get them used to some hustle and bustle and away from the norm of travelling by car.

Good luck, it can be so hard finding what triggers kids to upset them at times.

Dave!

[texaxile]

I've just returned from a day at Duxford with my Dad today. Concord 101 was open from 11:00 until 15:00, and the Lancaster talk and access was at 11:30 but was an extra £10 for adults, £8 for concessions.

It is worth noting that the outside Commercial airliners (VC10, Trident, BAC111 etc) are all closed for the winter in order to stop the damp getting in and damaging the interior, they re open in spring. Comet and Vanguard also closed but apparently sometimes open on weekends.

The other displays, especially the American Air Museum are very impressive. They have a B52 there along with an SR71, very interesting and interactive.

One tip, take a packed lunch with you, the Cafe charges £5 / £6 just for a Tuna roll!.

[Hard-Drive]

I'm assuming your daughter isn't a real expert in aircraft yet, so if you are not too bothered on type, get yourself to Coventry air museum. I think there's a couple of airliners, but she would also be able to sit in the cockpits of a couple of fighters, run around an Argosy, and sit in an Electra cockpit and push buttons, move throttles and yokes.

Perhaps if you could be in the right hand seat, explain what does what and "play" flying an Electra, she'll understand what's going on a bit more and enjoy it. Nice and local too and cheap as chips.



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