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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 9:55:55 GMT 12
Last day of our trip stayed the night in London before flying home managed to squeeze in the magnificent RAF Hendon Museum. Like the RAF Cosford you pay for parking which is on site, there is no entry fee to the museum. A late model Bleriot, I’m guessing the shield style cowl is to stop the oil ending up all over the pilot?  The WWI jobs are magnificent.        Not as much walking as Duxford, short walks between the four packed hangars, some later model biplanes.   Must look up the story on this Gladiator remnant?   |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 12:51:58 GMT 12
I don't know why, but I have the feeling the Gladiator hulk is one of the Malta(?) defenders Faith, Hope or Charity? No firm idea why.
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Post by atea on Aug 10, 2018 13:01:44 GMT 12
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 17:08:31 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 10, 2018 18:22:02 GMT 12
So the Battle of Britain aeroplanes are all back in Hendon now? Or just most of them? Is the Junkers Ju88 there?
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Post by Bruce on Aug 10, 2018 19:17:23 GMT 12
The Hurricane is a very early one, in an early - war scheme with no yellow ring on the fuse roundels and no fin flash. Its Authentic for the period.
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 19:39:32 GMT 12
So the Battle of Britain aeroplanes are all back in Hendon now? Or just most of them? Is the Junkers Ju88 there? There was a JU88 at Cosford, didn't see one on display at Hendon.   Some more from Hendon, the high performance fighters. Desert P40.    SEAC scheme on the Thunderbolt.  Another couple I’ve always been keen on, Tempest and…..  Typhoon.  The Sabre would have to be one of the most unusual piston power plants of WW II, if not ever!  |
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 19:42:10 GMT 12
The Hurricane is a very early one, in an early - war scheme with no yellow ring on the fuse roundels and no fin flash. Its Authentic for the period. Thanks Bruce, not that I've seen many, never seen that before. |
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Post by jp on Aug 10, 2018 20:45:40 GMT 12
The photo you have labelled as Typhoon is also a Tempest (TT5).
Dave - BoB aircraft still at Hendon are (I think) Spitfire, Me109, Fiat CR42 and Hurricane. Ju88, Gladiator, Lysander and Defiant at Cosford. Me110 in Bomber Hall at Hendon (but its a night fighter, so not BoB). Not sure where the Blenheim is, or the Stuka and Heinkel...
Edit: Blenheim and Heinkel are obviously still at Hendon (see below) - Stuka is probably at Cosford (not BoB variant either)
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 20:55:54 GMT 12
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Post by thebrads on Aug 10, 2018 21:11:59 GMT 12
Typhoon. Close. Tempest. But still awesome. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 10, 2018 21:17:19 GMT 12
Great photos on this thread. I so want to go back and visit again, I haven't been there in over 20 years. it's good to see the place so well lit nowadays.
Thanks for the update on where things are now.
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 21:19:15 GMT 12
Typhoon. Close. Tempest. But still awesome. Thanks missed the thinner wing damit! |
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Post by jp on Aug 10, 2018 21:28:39 GMT 12
Just had another look at the earlier pics - looks like the Stuka is in the Bomber Hall at Hendon as well.
So for all the fuss on other forums about the re-purposing of the BoB Hall at Hendon, and the splitting up of the collection, only the Gladiator, Defiant, Lysander and the (late-war) Ju88 actually left the site?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 10, 2018 21:37:35 GMT 12
And the Heinkel?
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Post by jp on Aug 10, 2018 21:59:35 GMT 12
Bomber Hall? - Looks like it from the above pics....
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 10, 2018 22:06:55 GMT 12
Last of my pic's from the Bomber hall.  Ex Indian Liberator.   Preserved Halifax is displayed in an as found all be it inhibited state.   Flying boats still to come......... |
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Post by isc on Aug 10, 2018 23:30:43 GMT 12
Another recognition feature on the Tempest is the different profile of the vertical fin. isc
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Post by vultee43 on Aug 11, 2018 1:02:52 GMT 12
My Grandfather flew that Hudson during the war.
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 11, 2018 10:22:57 GMT 12
Another recognition feature on the Tempest is the different profile of the vertical fin. isc These late model Hawker fighters have me intrigued, so the Typhoon had a Sabre with a thick wing, the Tempest had a thinner wing and engine wise had the Sabre early then the Centurus fitted later. So was the Fury a navalised (is that a word) version of the Tempset or was it a whole new design? I know I could just search all this but for the sake of forum and conversation I hope people contribute? Wonderful machines at the pinnacle of British piston era aircraft design.    |
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