Overview
- Miroslav Pohlodek, 42, will try the haul on Wednesday, aiming to move the aircraft at least 12 metres.
- The aircraft is a Handley Page Halifax Mk.III nicknamed Friday the 13th, weighing about 17 tonnes and billed as the museum’s star exhibit.
- Visitors can watch the attempt during normal opening hours as a lead‑in to the We’ll Meet Again wartime weekend on May 9–10.
- Pohlodek is a Hull-based forklift driver originally from Slovakia who has won Hull’s Strongest Man three years in a row and once pulled an 8.5‑tonne lorry with his teeth.
- Yorkshire Air Museum sits on the former RAF Elvington base and is running an Operation Halifax display marking 30 years since the bomber’s public unveiling after a 13‑year rebuild that traces where its parts came from.