I spent time at the weekend with some old friends at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum. It’s an old building and collection at the old RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk. The museum had about seven aircraft and a little cafe and shop. The coolest part of the museum is the battle command centre within the building showing how the first stages of a non-nuclear World War III would have been led. Bentwaters was home to A10 Warthogs and the job of those aircraft was to be the second wave of A10s into Germany after the first two days of a ground war. It was a really interesting visit and super fun to be with old friends and making fun of each other as we always have.
There were plenty of people volunteering at the museum who are ex-service people who gave great talks about the base and the roles of various people. It was really interesting. After the visit I chose to drive to Rendlesham Forest and inspect the site of the famous UFO sighting in 1980 or so. The forest was nice but the ground was mostly sand and that was annoying to walk on. I had a great time.