Experience the cold war at the National Museum of Flight

The National Museum of Flight’s Cold War Event
Saturday 11 – Sunday 19 February 2012
 
50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this February half-term, the National Museum of Flight will take you back in time to experience what life was like in the middle of the Cold War.  
 
Sited on the best preserved World War II airfield in the U.K, the Museum’s historical significance does not stop there.  The airfield played an important role during the Cold War, with the aircraft hangars you can still see today being used as storage for emergency supplies and its runways were also extended with the intention of transforming the site into a U.S. military base.
 
Join us at the National Museum of Flight this February break (Saturday 11th – Sunday 19th) to discover what East Fortune airfield was like during the 1960s, with guided tours around the site (featuring the Vulcan and Britain’s own attempt at creating a nuclear warhead, Blue Streak); photographs, object-handling and newsreels from the era; family spy trails and craft activities; reconstructed nuclear air raid shelters and 1960s memorabilia.  Imagine what it was like living in constant fear of nuclear attack and consider what would have happened to East Lothian, had the U.S. military’s plans for the airfield really come to pass…
 
Experience the 1960s at the National Museum of Flight this February half-term, and find out about the decade when the world changed forever!

For more information visit: www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums