Comments on: Aviodrome Lelystad, an aviation museum

By: Rachel Heller

Rachel Heller — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:22:47 +0000

I don’t know how I missed that the Boeing 747 is a combo! I think I flew in one back in 1984 when I went to Malawi. It was British Airways, I think, and stopped somewhere in West Africa first, then in Lusaka, then Lilongwe. I’ll change that part in the article.

I remember when smoking was allowed. It used to annoy my mother because we always seemed to get seats in the non-smoking rows that bordered on the smoking rows, so we’d be breathing smoke the whole flight! Yuck.

Anyway, thanks for your comment and, yes, sharing the article around is greatly appreciated!

By: Aviodrome

Aviodrome — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:04:32 +0000

Wow what a well written article! We’re proud to read your kind words about our museum, thanks a lot for taking the time and for all the effort you put in, it really shows. Btw our Boeing 747 is a combo, not many of them where operating. So the back part of the plane never housed seats and we haven’t stripped a thing. This is how a cargo looked on our Queen of the skies. It was used a lot for moving horses around the world. Fun fact: the roof and its surroundings used to be silver in the first years of operation, but smoking was allowed back then on board so that made it turn to the colour it is now 😉

Thank you again for your article, I’ll send it to my collegues 🙂

Kind regards,
Lars Janssen
Coördinator exhibitions & public events

By: Carole Terwilliger Meyers

Carole Terwilliger Meyers — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 22:33:08 +0000

The Aviodrome Aviation Theme Park at Lelystad airport outside Amsterdam sounds like a great place to visit, especially if you have time to kill on a lay-over. Are there special shuttles from the terminals?

By: Rachel Heller

Rachel Heller — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:09:20 +0000

In reply to Jackie K Smith. I think it's because I'm a fearful flyer that I liked this museum. It's reassuring to see these older planes and realize how far we've come. And yes, I wonder what the future of aviation is. It'll continue, but it'll be a different experience, and probably more expensive.

By: Elaine Masters

Elaine Masters — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:16:53 +0000

My kind of museum – especially with the vintage cars and amazing transported terminal from 1928. Pity they’re running out of space but still I’d bee-line to visit if I were in the area.

By: Jackie K Smith

Jackie K Smith — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:26:06 +0000

I am also a white-knuckler flier so I would probably find some horrors here confirming some irrational fear of mine but all the same it would be so interesting. Thanks for the tour. In light of our current pandemic, I can’t help but wonder what the future of aviation will be in the next few years anyway.

By: noel morata

noel morata — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:07:18 +0000

What a fun tour of this museum and outside parts of the airport – such an amazing collection and so well displayed and other exhibits.