At Trenton Air Force Base there is the Air Force Museum.
Restored Halifax Bomber
Technically speaking this wasn't a bomber as it was a speical operations plane for supporting resistance fighters in Norway.
It was there that this place was shot down in 1945 and then recovered in the 90s. The plane was restored and placed on display here.
One of the guns from the crashed Halifax
Engines
The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine was one of the main power houses of the Allies in WW2.
I throughout recommend anyone interested read about all the stuff this engine went into and the engineering behind it.
They had a Merlin on a cart.
I don't know what this engine is, but it has a butt load of gears.
Other
First aircraft ever bought by the RCAF
Emily in a C130 Simulator
Mechanical Engineers love gears
Avro Arrow
The Avro Arrow is a interesting point of history for technology in Canada and the Cold War in general.
If you are Canadian and don't know what the Arrow is then you need to stop reading and look up the wiki page for it.
Got it?
Good
There was a model at the museum becuase of course no planes survived.
The Aero park
There was a collect of historic aircraft outside.
I won't bore you with most of the history for each plane.
C-130
There was a recently retired C130 there that we got to walk up around and into the cockpit.
Couple interesting things
There was a MIG from the Eastern German airforce
MIG 21
With the CF-188 (known as the CF-18) there was a landing system with it for landing on short runways.
Its basically like aircraft carrier.
Cf-188 landing arrestor