China Aviation Museum

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Took a 40 minute subway ride followed by a 30 minute local bus to the door of the China Aviation Museum on the outer edge of Beijing. This city is huge! Total cost to the door of the museum 3.5 Yuan or 52 cents! It was raining, one of the few times on the holiday so far, so we took a little electric covered cart from the gate to the ticket office for 10 Yuan. In China there is always somebody ready to make a buck!

The museum is on a disused air force base, part of the museum is inside a large hanger with two entrances built into a hill. It's absolutely massive. There's a huge range of a/c on display and vast amounts of information on the walls including descriptions of aerial dog fight techniques. Unfortunately virtually all of it is in Chinese. Spent a happy two hours around the base and got my self a nice Concorde model.

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Photos

Aviation Drive
The drive in is lined with corn that is drying.

Underground hanger
This bunker type hanger goes for around 400m and has 2 entrances. Must have been an amazing site as an operational airbase.

Mig 21
The famous aircraft cosy in it's underground hanger

Hind
Hind attack helicopter. Ugly, big and deadly!

Models
Lots of models, lots of written words all Chinese!