Originally posted by beet1e
Nexx,
I've also been in the Concorde cockpit - the Yeovilton one, but you said military...
By the way, did you go to that 50th anniversary Battle of Britain airshow at Boscombe Down in 1990? Best freaking airshow I ever saw. 
The Avro Vulcan was there, and I remember it well because that Vulcan was the loudest plane we saw/heard at the entire event.
There was also a Lockheed C5 Galaxy - we'd do well in that. The cockpit is as big as the dining room at one of my former houses.
I've been in the Concorde prototype at Duxford. They usually have the cockpit closed off but I went on a 'Friends of Duxford' evening and managed to gain access to the cockpit. I didn't read the "do's and don'ts" and sat in the pilots seat, which of course I wasn't supposed to! Ooops! Apparently last person to sit there was Richard Branson!
I will really miss the 'Friends of Duxford' evenings while I'm away in Germany. They rotate the aircraft that you can gain entry and over the next few years I would have been able to access the B29, B24, Buccaneer, among many others (I'd love to have a look inside the TSR2!!!!). I did manage to go inside some of the tanks that they have there too. The only WW2 tank being the JS2M.
I've walked through a C5 Galaxy but never been in the cockpit and I can certainly imagine how large it be inside!
Oh, there's also a Halifax walk through at Imperial War Museum Lambeth Walk.
Unfortunately I didn't attend the Boscombe Down airshow. I used to attend many airshows between 1981 - 1991 that included Honington, Finningley (a couple of times), Mildenhall (82-91), Alconbury, Duxford, Cottesmore, Brawdy... I didn't get back into aircraft until about 1999! Anyway, yes, the Vulcan was an incredibly impressive plane at airshows! It's hard to say whether it was the loudest, where it must compete with the Lightning, F-15, B-1B, a pair of F-111s breaking the soundbarrier (quite illegally!) at Mildenhall in 1983-ish? Those were the days!
