The Battle of Britain...............

[firth1974 2,656]

With all this talk of Britain is fcuked, its time to take a good look at what made Britain GREAT!!!.

Its that time of the year again, when i make my way around looking taking loads of photos.

This collection of photos are from the Royal Air Force museum in Hendon, which is still FREE to get into by the way. Take the Northern Line Tube up to Colindale, out and turn left and its roughly a 10 min walk to the museum.

These photos are dealing with the Battle of Britain aircraft, when this battle took place 74 years ago.

[firth1974 2,656]

[firth1974 2,656]

[Bushcraft 2,459]

Great pics, thanks Firth. There's even more to see than when I was last there in the 80's. Spits, Hurrys, Stringbag, Mosquito, Doodlebug, V2 and much more. And malignly intelligent, strutting but ultimately ineffective Goering as nothing more than the figurehead of the German air effort, in constant conflict with the much more knowledgeable but disastrously wrong Erhard Milch, who actually ran the show. Brilliant display, a must-see if visiting England. Tributes to the saviour of Britain in 1940, Hugh "Stuffy" Dowding, and Arthur "Bomber" Harris belong there too, but are absent (?).

[nkped 1,207]

Thanks. Do you by any chance know what this beast was?http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy67/Firth1974/RAF%20Hendon%20Sept%202014/DSCN7836_zps29205483.jpg--first photo in post 3

Edited September 23, 2014 by nkped

[firth1974 2,656]

Thanks. Do you by any chance know what this beast was?http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy67/Firth1974/RAF%20Hendon%20Sept%202014/DSCN7836_zps29205483.jpg--first photo in post 3

Yep, that is a Boulton Paul Defiant

[Butch 3,456]

Great pics Firth. .... What's the second from last pic of? Is that a bloody great bomb?.

 

I've recently read on another forum that there might to be an attempt to get several airworthy Spits and Hurricanes to Northholt next Sept.

 

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/world-biggest-gathering-spitfires-hurricanes-planned-summer.html

 

If it is the case then I'll definitely be going, although it's more than a year away.

[nkped 1,207]

Great pics Firth. .... What's the second from last pic of? Is that a bloody great bomb?

Ass end of a V-2? Also in photo 7 of the same post, I think.

[firth1974 2,656]

Ass end of a V-2? Also in photo 7 of the same post, I think.

Correct. Thanks for that.

[Butch 3,456]

Bloody hell, when you think it's the "grandaddy" of what we now have as cruise missiles, it's amazing at the level of engineering the Nazis had back then.