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Old 7th Feb 2018, 08:55
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Bob Viking
 
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Barksdale

I stopped off at Barksdale AFB on a road trip with work last year to visit the 8th Air Force museum (they had a Vulcan parked in plain sight from the road).

Sadly their website failed to mention (at least it certainly wasn’t obvious to me) that it is only open to base personnel or sponsored guests.

I tried to point out (politely, this is America we’re talking about) that, as a serving hofficer in her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, I should be allowed to look at one of our former aircraft.

No luck unfortunately. So we went to Texarkana just so I could say we’d been there. My advice is not to bother. It’s rubbish!

BV
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