Bombs Away!

A while back some of us were driving south of Calgary and we passed by what looked like an airplane hanger right along the highway.  The doors were open and inside was a Lancaster Bomber!!!!!  The people I was with saw me slowing down and insisted that I keep going.  No bomber for me!  My dad and I use to chase down any World War II warbirds we could find.  I remember one time we were on the way to a Little League baseball game at the airbase and we passed by a display of a Submarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane. We looked at one another and knew we would be stopping there on the way back home.    

I forgot what town it was in but friends on Facebook helped me track Nanton down so this time I made sure that I had time to stop and see it.  Anita and Angela were both willing to let me stop and go through a pretty impressive little museum in the wilds of Alberta.   I had no idea that many of the bomber crews of Canada trained in the area during World War II.   We were pretty early in the day on a weekday so we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  The local curator gave us a private guided tour which was great!

The star of the Musuem

The biggest bomb payload of World War II

Hey!  I can fly this thing!