Bentwaters Cold War Museum at Night
Date : 14th May 2015
Opening times .. 7.00pm to 10.00pm
A new experience for one of East Anglia’s established aviation museums is to take part in the national Museums at Night event on 14th May 2015.
Opening in the evening with floodlit aircraft and live re-enactment by museum staff in the Cold War Command Post Bunker who will bring to life the ominous prospect of impending war that the world faced when the superpowers of the USA and the Soviet Union opposed each other
Guided tours of the museum will be available at intervals plus films and photo opportunities both in the Command Post and outside with the aircraft, all arranged to maximise the visitor experience.
Admission is the normal price of £5.00 with children free. Hot drinks will be available in the museum café.
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By: J Boyle - 3rd May 2015 at 22:29
Having served as a wing staff officer at Bentwaters (I’ll be happy to point out my place in the command post 🙂 ) it wasn’t all THAT “ominous”.
While the unit kept busy with training and sending aircraft and crewed to “Advanced Operating Locations” in Germany, the atmosphere was nowhere near as tense as it was on SAC bases I served at.
Years before that, as a young lieutenant at a B-52/KC-135 wing, I would have to fill-in for my boss at the daily staff meetings, which began with a classified briefing on the locations of Soviet SLBM-equipped submarines off the coast…and the approximate flight time of the missiles before they struck our base…thus giving the commander a window of a few minutes in which to launch the alert aircraft.
Now THAT was ominous.
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May 3, 2015 at 8:59 pm