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Jun 10^th, 2012 at 3:16pm

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The great white whale.....

V-2....

Have a JP, will make mischief....

Just learning.... on various trainers....

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #1 - Jun 10^th, 2012 at 3:58pm

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Wonderful shots of the little terrors, Mark!... Grin

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(Including Agi!)
(I lost my last set with my recent HDD Crash)

Emi has obviously got everything under control...as usual.. Grin

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Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2012 at 5:18pm

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The same type of V2 that hit London in 1944? Grin

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Reply #3 - Jun 11^th, 2012 at 5:08am

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Yup BlackAce, that'd be the one. They've also got a V1. I think these are important to help the next generation understand the things their great-grandparents endured (my dads family survived the Blitz).
Emi finds it amazing that she can see the only complete Stuka in the world at RAF Hendon.
Last night I had to attach her new Lancaster keyring to her schoolbag... Aeroplane mad, that's my girl Cool

Mind you we had to go through the Sunderland twice as Wee Man liked it soooo much. Being 6 foot 1 inch tall those hatches are a bugger (much to my wife and children's amusement) Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Jun 11^th, 2012 at 5:22am

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Cool shots. Wink

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Mind you we had to go through the Sunderland twice as Wee Man liked it soooo much.

My grandmother actually made tails for Sunderlands.

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Emi finds it amazing that she can see the only complete Stuka in the world at RAF Hendon.

There is a Stuka outside The Aviation Heritage Centre at Omaka near Blenheim, NZ.

Not sure if it's original though. Undecided

I hear that it is being restored to taxiing condition.

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Reply #5 - Jun 11^th, 2012 at 9:16am

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ozzy72 wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 5:08am:

Yup BlackAce, that'd be the one. They've also got a V1. I think these are important to help the next generation understand the things their great-grandparents endured (my dads family survived the Blitz).

my grandmother survived the blitz and little blitz. My great grandfather was an Air Raid Warrden in London

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Reply #6 - Jun 11^th, 2012 at 11:55am

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Andy, I'd guess the NZ one is a bitza slung together from several aircraft. The Hendon one is officially the only complete survivor.
They've changed the entrance to the BoB hall and in some areas the layouts of where aircraft are. This did make it much easier to get some REALLY good photos of the Mossie and Spit V. I'll post them once I've sorted out the colour Wink

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Reply #7 - Jun 11^th, 2012 at 6:32pm

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BlackAce wrote on Jun 10^th, 2012 at 5:18pm:

The same type of V2 that hit London in 1944? Grin

All 590 of them... Nasty bits of work, and sadly the only way to defend them was before they were launched! At least the V1 gave AAA and fighters a slim chance!

As for the NZ Stuka, there doesn't seem to be much info on what it is; whether it's a semi faithful reconstruction, or a shell over a taxyable chassis, as some of the Spit and Hurris were for the BoB film.

There's genuine Stuka in Chicago too.

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Reply #8 - Jun 11^th, 2012 at 10:39pm

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As for the NZ Stuka, there doesn't seem to be much info on what it is; whether it's a semi faithful reconstruction, or a shell over a taxyable chassis, as some of the Spit and Hurris were for the BoB film.

I did a bit more research & it turns out that it is a full sized static replica built for a Classic Fighters Air Show a few years ago.

It now lives as a Gate Guardian at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre.

http://www.omaka.org.nz/index.htm

Have a look though the Site especially at the Photo Gallery.

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Reply #9 - Jun 12^th, 2012 at 2:11am

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Hendon has changed since the last time I visited around 30 years ago by the look of it. Back then you looked with your eyes and not your fingers. There where no interactive exhibits. If you so much as breathed on anything, a crusty old ex-service museum Nazi complete with cravat and walking cane would berate you most publicly Roll Eyes

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Reply #10 - Jun 12^th, 2012 at 11:46am

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They still do yell at you if you touch things and they catch you. They've got lots of touchscreen units around the site for educational purposes which is a good idea.
I was surprised how much had been changed around since I was last there just under a year ago! Lots going on....
Thinking about taking the clan up to Cosford in the near future one Saturday.
Wee Man has re-discovered his inflatable Spitfire (got many moons ago for bath time). He now races around the house carrying it and yelling "Look daddy! Spitfire!" I'm so proud Cool

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Reply #11 - Jun 15^th, 2012 at 4:53pm

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Nice shots, reminded me of the time we took our 3 little uns to RNAS Culdrose for an airshow.

It is right that the next generation are made aware of the last world war, V1&2 etc.........They also need to know where Mr. Von Braun ended his career.

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Reply #12 - Jul 5^th, 2012 at 8:30pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 5:08am:

Yup BlackAce, that'd be the one. They've also got a V1. I think these are important to help the next generation understand the things their great-grandparents endured (my dads family survived the Blitz).
Emi finds it amazing that she can see the only complete Stuka in the world at RAF Hendon.
Last night I had to attach her new Lancaster keyring to her schoolbag... Aeroplane mad, that's my girl Cool

Mind you we had to go through the Sunderland twice as Wee Man liked it soooo much. Being 6 foot 1 inch tall those hatches are a bugger (much to my wife and children's amusement) Roll Eyes

I know what you mean about learning what my grandparents and great grandparents went through... a couple of years ago my grandad gave me a book that his father, my great-grandfather, had been in possession of when he was a merchant navy captain in the first world war. He distinguished himself by sinking two submarines with the gun mounted on the deck of his ship during the course of the war, before he was himself sunk, and as a result he was allowed to keep the now-declassified book as a memento - there's a little signed note stuck on the inside of the front cover to that effect, dated 1919. It's got all sorts of charts for anti-submarine zig-zags and silhouettes of german submarines, and its weighted with lead so that one could throw it overboard if it were in danger of falling into enemy hands. It really got me thinking.

Generational gaps aside ( Grin

), these are great photos. I hadn't clocked just how substantial the Sunderland was until I saw that first one. Cheesy

I must get down to Hendon some time, by the looks of it I could spend hours in there easily. Grin

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