Beau's Halifax Tour

[BeauBrummie]

Finally I've sorted the photo's I took of my tour around the restored Halifax "Friday the 13th" at the Yorkshire Air Museum. It was an unforgetable experience greatly helped by the excellent tour guide Phil Kemp, who is the Halifax's project leader. He made the two hours flyby.

Here's a slideshow for your delectation, you can also view the stills in the album too. Please note that you can see controls for the slideshow when you pass your mouse over the moving pictures.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x47/BeauBrummie/Halifax%20Tour/th_100_3132.jpg (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x47/BeauBrummie/Halifax%20Tour/?action=view&current=2db7c05f.pbw)


You can compare these with the museums virtual tour of the same aircraft http://www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk/virtual_tour/halifax/360_halifax_1.html (http://www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk/virtual_tour/halifax/360_halifax_1.html)

[pachi]

wow beautiful pics Beau and the virtual tour was awesome, never thought something like that existed

thanks for the share:ernae:

[ndicki]

Very impressed with the quality of the restoration, too - great pics! Thanks.

[BeauBrummie]

I was impressed by the generosity of visiting Halifax vets & relatives who have give to the project all manner of personal items that they had kept from their operational days: navigator maps, navigator instrument kit (dividers, protractors, slide rule etc), flying helmet, and other stuff.

[markjhnstn]

Great slideshow! Seems a lot less claustrophobic than the Lancaster but I could be wrong!!!

[BeauBrummie]

I think that you are probably right. One of the reasons the Halifax was used in such a variety of roles was because it had quite a deep fuselage which give a reasonable amount of room. One impression I did get was that the pilot and turret gunners had a difficult job getting out in an emergency they were cramped poistions. I was surprised how hemmed in by equipment the pilot was. I was was told that it was fairly common for the crew to practice the drill of getting the pilot out (especially if he was injured). Then imagine doing that with smoke, fire and the aircraft swaying all over the place!!!!