IT’S chocks away at the Yorkshire Air Museum which is promising its loudest show ever with a display of jet aeroplanes and the museum’s first ever working propeller plane.
Technicians at the museum near Elvington are set to show off their First World War SE5a bi-plane, following the fitting of a new engine over the winter.
Thunder Day on Sunday, April 1, will also include the museum’s Second World War Douglas DC3 Dakota, which is being billed as the star of the show.
The Blackburn Buccaneer will also be firing up its twin Rolls-Royce Spey engines, while the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict will be marked by an appearance from the Nimrod MR2 XV250 and Victor V-Bomber.
Ian Reed, museum director, said: “With such an impressive line-up of aircraft set to take part, this will undoubtedly be a milestone event in the Yorkshire Air Museum’s history and one of our most exciting public events.
“It will be terrific to see and hear the propellers of these historic aircraft spinning ‘live’ for the first time, adding to the thrill of the ground-shaking jets.”
Fore more details, go to yorkshireairmuseum.org
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