Churchill's Bunker & Lancaster Ride
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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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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).
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).






