After an early lunch on Thursday Maureen drove us down to Trenton about an hour from Kingston. We met up her brother and his wife then headed of to the Trenton Aircraft Museum along side the Trenton Air force Base. A hot day as we discovered when getting out of the air-conditioned car at the Museum.
On walking inside you come face-to-face with a four engine Halifax bomber. A bomber that crashed and sunk in a Norwegian lake back in April1945. It lay 750 feet under water until 1991 when it was brought to the surface, restored and had the museum building built around it at Trenton.
Both inside and outside the buildings there were many interesting aircraft, stories to read, engines to see, and plenty of aircraft associated items. And just for Gary a Hercules Bristol Freighter engine.
Outside you can go from WW11 aircraft to the Korean War, the Vietnam and later. I even walked around and early Hercules that reminded me of flights out of the Antarctic in the sixties.
After walking around the aircraft outside, getting very hot, and spending some time sitting down in the shade we returned inside and the air-conditioning. Inside we all took advantage of the lift to the mezzanine floor.
The day finished with a salmon meal in one of the local restaurant and an interesting drive back to Kingston.
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