I WRITE to recommend that your readers visit the Yorkshire Air Museum and also to thank its staff for a memorable day.

The museum serves to educate its visitors. It also reminds one and all of the supreme sacrifice made by those who served in Bomber Command during the war.

During my visit, I met George Martin, left, a former wireless operator and air gunner, whose wounds in battle saved his life when his crew failed to return from a subsequent mission. It was an honour and pleasure to sit with this man and listen to history being retold.

Although already a superb museum, its staff are planning to secure additional funds to expand the museum. I hope they succeed.

I also hope that those with influence within the public transport community in York can provide a better service. It is impossible to visit the museum for more than a few hours because there simply are not enough buses provided.

So, after spending just over three hours at the museum, it was time to leave.

While most of us berate buses that are late, why do bus drivers feel obliged to arrive five minutes early? More so, when it's the only bus home and you're a mere 100 metres from the bus stop as it unexpectedly speeds past.

Obviously the driver didn't see me. Luckily, the volunteers of the Yorkshire Air Museum proved more than helpful when one, Harry Parkinson, offered to drive me back towards York and a connecting bus home.

I write to publicly thank the staff of the Yorkshire Air Museum (in particular George Martin and Harry Parkinson) for a wonderful day.

Phillip Rhodes,

Salt House Lane,

Kingston upon Hull.

Updated: 09:40 Wednesday, January 25, 2006