Have you climbed through a bomber? It’s not exactly easy going, even the likes of the Newark Shack isn’t the easiest to traversed, wasn’t the Hendon Sunderland open to visitors?
The VC10 tanker was simply a stripped out fuselage with long cylindrical fuel tanks running down it, not exactly inspiring to look at, the tanking being done from a TV screen in the cockpit.
You would need something like a KC 135 with the bed in the back to lay on while you manipulate the boom viewing it through a window.
No, I mean a prefabricated airplane where you can literally walk through the interior. Each station is made to look like the real thing, with real parts. Sort of like an exploded view.
Opened out so there are no space restrictions.
So maybe you could board at the front and see, hear the pilots going through preflight.
As you progress through the interior you encounter the other stations, perhaps with models, things to press (like buttons with `don’t press` on them always good with kids).
The tail end is an opening where you can see and hear the Typhoons. I like the boom idea.
A bit like a smaller aviation version of the carrier experience.
How about a C47 experience where you hear and see the para’s while they drop at Arnham?
Just ideas, probably not practical or cost effective.
As a kid (and older kid) the walk through diorama’s at Hendon (like the BoB experience air raid shelter entrance) always stuck in my mind.
Sort of like a Land Warfare hall for planes.
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