Can’t find any place to put museum photos, so I’ll put them here (dare to post a photo in the historic forum, unless perhaps it’s a small tin panel from an unidentified aircraft, and you’ll be blown to pieces! :dev2: ). Mods, if there is a more appropriate place to put this thread then feel free to move it! 🙂 ]

Hmmmm… so you couldn’t find anywhere to post pictures of vintage and historic aircraft eh.. so you posted a collection of static aircraft in a forum for displaying flying airshow aircraft….? and why would you not ‘dare’ to post historic A/C in historic forum anyway…?

Anyway, I finally got around to processing some of the photos I took in 2002 at the Royal Air Force museum at Hendon in the northern part of London.

I think you’ll find it’s changed quite a bit since you last visited….
Nice to see it how it was…

The Bristol Beaufort was a lackluster torpedo bomber and mine layer developed from the even more lackluster Bristol Blenheim light bomber:

Lackluster eh… try telling that to the pilots who flew them, may i suggest you take a look at the squadron records to see how ‘lackluster’ their performance really was….

The Bristol Beaufighter was a kickass night-fighter and anti-shipping aircraft developed from the lackluster Bristol Beaufort and the even more lackluster Bristol Blenheim light bomber. The Beaufighter was so kickass that the USAAF used it, too.

‘The even more lackluster bristol blenheim’ Speechless:confused: again, suggest you take a look at squadron records to see the amazing work record of these aircraft… one of the finest A/C to be built in the uk.

The Beaufighter was so kickass that the USAAF used it, too.
Wow…. good enough for the americans eh…? :rolleyes:

The sole surviving Hawker Typhoon, an aircraft which was sent to the USA for flight evaluation and ended up in the Smithsonian museum by 1944!

Yes… so they could stare in awe at our superb british heavyweight fighter!

Hawker Tempest II, developed from the Typhoon and modelled in large part on the Focke Wulf Fw 190:

Yes i can really see the similarity:rolleyes:

Comments, questions and suggestions all welcome!

Richard.

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