I wanted to visit the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum ever since I saw Rick Mercer (CBC Monday Report)'s piece on it (lucky bastard got to ride on a Lancaster Bomber over Niagara falls...in the autumn!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnqbFiLbyM
The Museum is right beside Hamilton International Airport (yes, we did drive from Toronto's Pearson Airport straight to another airport lol) After going through some mandatory patriotic education (okay, fine, just some general display explaining where the planes come from and how they were used during war. Plus some display of pilot's personal account and memorabilia. After going through the small exhibition space, it is onto the hangers and airplane crowd. Yay!
Catalina w/ its loooong wingspan
The Museum is right beside Hamilton International Airport (yes, we did drive from Toronto's Pearson Airport straight to another airport lol) After going through some mandatory patriotic education (okay, fine, just some general display explaining where the planes come from and how they were used during war. Plus some display of pilot's personal account and memorabilia. After going through the small exhibition space, it is onto the hangers and airplane crowd. Yay!
Star of the museum, the Lancaster Bomber
It was exciting to see so many airworthy planes in a plane museum, especially when you see the metal pans under the planes collecting oil ;P
And...it just happens that the first page is also a plane (because I was waiting around at the airport, trying to experiment with the new sketchbook) I was struggling with the smooth surface, so the colours of the Lufthansa tail went totally off the board (it was supposed to be deep blue...)
