RAF Museum Hendon
 

Ended up here today for a few hours trying to kill some time, well worth a visit, only a few pics from my phone I'm afraid.

The UKs first aircraft factory, now contains all the WW1 aviation exhibits:

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Obviously the Short Wheel Base Version of this one

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The original switch panel from the entrance to the factory, the owner liked to show off how much power the machines were using, quite the opposite to today

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More effective than a set of cheap Coilovers

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Interesting view of a radial engine crank shaft (should have used a flash)

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Lovely P-51 Mustang

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Interestingly coloured Buccaneer

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A Harrier, no idea what variant

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Landing Gear Mechanism on a Tornado, I took this because I have the user refusing to fly his UAV because there is some chipped paint on the towing hitch bracket

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Pre Production Typhoon, pretty sure there's probably one of Scotts early black boxes tucked away in here

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Gloucester Meteor, familiar to anyone that used to drive past St Leonards Motors

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Mortal Enemies. There are lots of different spitfires if they're your thing, you can even pay £10 to sit in one.

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Vulcan Bomb Bay

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Can't remember what it was but it came from the bottom of a lake

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Who remembers this from the RAF recruitment advert?

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Looks like an amazing day out - love the model from the advert :ok:

Typhoon ZH588 is one or the original development aircraft.
It was used extensively in alot of media/photographs but in its original grey colour.

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Nice selection of photos.

Definitely a good way to kill a couple of hours... beats kicking about in Heathrow, that's for certain!

Nice photos, looks an interesting place. Typhoon looks great in the darker colour, whats with the cockerel emblem on it?

I'm defo going to have to get over there ����

Is the Vulcan still in there?

Was when I last was there.
I can't see it moving anytime soon.

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It would take a lot of work to get it out, it's quite well embedded in amongst everything else.

nice! Will go there to check it out.

There is another great place to visit, Tank Museum at Bovington.
Highly recommend for those who hasn't been there.

Great museum. :doubleup: Haven't been there for a few years, but they had a lot of aircraft packed in.

Looks like a GR3 to me! :)

Think its a Gladiator?

Excellent photos, as I remember it being quite dark in there last time I was there!

All shot on my old Galaxy S6 in point and shoot mode, now I have the S8 I've given up carrying a camera.