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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM AT RAF HENDON

By Glenn McGowan, Contributing Editor & Photographer
Poplar Grove, Illinois

Only a twenty minute Tube ride from the King’s Cross station in downtown London is the impressive Royal Air Force Museum. Standing guard outside the museum’s main hangar are a Spitfire and a Hurricane, seemingly daring any foe to attack their island again! They are certainly the most well known aircraft of British aviation history.

Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane
Battle of Britain legends

Admission to the facility is free of charge and will take several hours to take in all the exhibits. The first wing of the museum is a airy canvas structure housing aircraft from throughout England’s first century of flight, from airships to World War I fighters to supersonic jets.

Sopwith Camel
World War I’s best Allied fighter

Rear Gunner of Hawker Hart
British bomber between the great wars

Percival Mew Gull - Winner of the 1938 King’s Cup Air Race
with Alex Henshaw at the controls

Hawker Tempest V

As you work your way into the main hangar, which is cavernous by any comparison you are greeted by bombers, lots of bombers. A Lancaster, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, and a Vulcan.

Cockpit remains of WWII Handley Page Halifax bomber
found at the bottom of a Norwegian lake

Sunderland flying boat

Gloster Meteor - the penultimate British biplane fighter (the Gloster Gladiator being the last of the breed.)

1918 DeHavilland DH9A bomber

Hawker Hart (biplane trainer 1930s)

Air Cadets Glider trainer

I was very moved by the tribute paid to American airmen of the Mighty 8th Air Force. It took the form of a memorial and the display of several U.S. aircraft including a B-17 Flying Fortress.

The Battle of Britain section of the museum includes aircraft flown by both sides during the summer of 1940 including Spitfires, Hurricanes, ME-109, ME-110, Heinkel 111, as well as other lesser known types. Take the time to catch the movie about the battle which runs throughout the day.

The museum also has a restaurant and a very nice gift shop with memorabilia and an extensive collection of aviation books on sale. To get to the museum rent a car, or if traveling by the Tube, take the northern line and get off at ….. There are signs from the station to the museum and it is about a ten minute walk. Cheers!

By Glenn McGowan, Contributing Editor & Photographer
cubflyer@northboone.net

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