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Old Feb 26th, 2007 | 04:21 PM
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Churchill's Bunker & Lancaster Ride

Hello. Travelling to London in August and heard that there is a new ride somehow connected with Churchill's Bunker. You tour the bunker then go on a Lancaster for a plane "ride" as if you were in the War !!! Does anyone know if it exists and where to do you go to go on it??
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Old Feb 26th, 2007 | 04:25 PM
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"as if you were in the War"? You mean you get a chunk of hot shrapnel from a flak shell up your
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Old Feb 26th, 2007 | 07:04 PM
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I haven't heard of the plane ride in a Lancaster.

There is a great WWII air museum at Hendon. Perhaps it's there...?
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Old Feb 26th, 2007 | 10:10 PM
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Churchill's bunker (http://tinyurl.com/2ny67y) is virtually unvisitable.

The Cabinet War Rooms (highly visitable, and by no stretch of anyone's imagination a bunker), and the attached Churchill Museum are in the middle of London, which not only lacks space for any kind of runway, but doesn't allow room for one of those virtual ride machines either.

However, the Churchill Museum does play techno-games: there's a display that lets you choose a date and does a number of visual and sound tricks. Choose May 18 1943 (the date of the Dam Busters raid) and the shadow of a Lancaster appears and drops a shadow bomb which bounces around the room and shadowly explodes.

Alternatively, there's a chap out in Lincolnshire who sometimes flies you round in a Lancaster (www.bomber-command.info/lancride.htm).
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Old Feb 28th, 2007 | 06:53 PM
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OOOH gosh! I dont mean a real PLANE, its a ride....Ive been to Hendon before and they didnt have it there.

Thanks aanyway/.



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