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Museum curators often enjoy putting smiles on their visitors faces. As a young boy I visited the Skyfame Museum in Gloucester, England (Now closed, but they had a Halifax cockpit, the Saunders Roe jet fighter flying boat, a Mosquito, all sorts of stuff). Anyhow, seeing as the place wasn't too busy, the curator saw me staring glassy eyed at real warplanes and asked if I wanted to get in one. Before I could answer I was hoisted inside an Avro Anson. I still remember the expanse of duck egg green metal and thinking how uncomfortable it must have been to fly in this thing. The view from the cockpit was very good as I remember, you could see all round you.