Holiday this year saw the whole Lemmey family off for a trip to York, and a quick visit to the Yorkshire Aircraft Museum at Elvington So, continuing my few and far between series of Museum write ups... Elvinton was a WW2 airbase, either RAF of Free French, but it was a Bomber Command base, and Handley-Paige Halifaxes were based here, so different to the Fighter Command bases visited previously. First thing that greats you upon entry is a 1:1 scale model of a Hurricane (which I always hae a soft-spot for, as my Grandpa flew in them), but this one is done up as a Mk2C night fighter , with four cannons. A really nice touch. Saracen armoured car . 1:1 model Spitfire , because you just have to. Tallboy bomb , without warhead, in it's transportation cradle. A big beast. Talking of Tallboys, this one stands inside the hanger (daughters for scale) alongside a WE. 177 nuclear freefall bomb , training round, but daunting to say the least. WW1 mock up, a vintage rebuild by engineering appr...