Events
The museum holds an annual air show every July, with other events run throughout the year. These include World War Two Weekend, held in May, and Magnificent Machines, a transport event held in September with monster trucks and steam traction engines. A new event held in June 2010 was Into the Future with performances by Robots Live and other activities showcasing various technologies. The 2011 airshow was held on Saturday 23 July.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)