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Hendon March 2007

Hendon March 2007

One of the most famous collection of preserved aircraft in the world- museum in Hendon. Author Robert Hodgson visited RAF museum at Hendon in March 2007 and here are some photos of aircraft not photographed on previous visits.

Helicopter in rescue yellow color

Images present following airplanes: Sikorsky Hoverfly I s/n KK995, Westland Whirlwind HAR10 s/n XP299, [...]

Ryan Spirit of St. Louis 1:48 scale

Ryan Spirit of St. Louis 1:48 scale

The Ryan NYP ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ is the plane that gave Charles Lindbergh world-wide fame when he crossed the Atlantic ocean in a non-stop flight from New York to Paris on 20 May 1927. With this heroic flight he won the Orteg prize, established for the first man to make this non-stop [...]

Johannisthal

Johannisthal

When Anthony Fokker went into serious aviation business it became soon evident that there was no place for him in his homeland The Netherlands.

Johannisthal 1913 booklet
Instead he moved to Germany together with his old schoolfriend Frits Cremer and after some preliminary wandering he finally settled at Johannisthal near Berlin, at that time the ‘centre of [...]

Sud Est SE.210 Caravelle

Sud Est SE.210 Caravelle

Designed by a team headed by Pierre Satre, the Sud Est Caravelle was one of the most innovative and original jetliners of the fifties. With a nose section resembling that of the De Havilland Comet* it had the unique feature of engines mounted in pods at the rear end on each side of the fuselage. [...]

Brussels Air Museum

Brussels Air Museum

Here are my photos from Brussels Air Museum. This is one of the very large collection in Europe with the samples of airplanes cover age from WW1 to the present date.

Hawker Hunter
MiG 23BN s/n 23, Mil Mi-24D s/n 96+33, Dassault MD-450 Ouragan s/n 320, Yakovlev Yak 11 s/n 1706, Mig 15bis s/n 3911, Sikorsky S-58 [...]

Vickers Type 161 COW-gun fighter

Vickers Type 161 COW-gun fighter

The Coventry Ordnance Works (C.O.W.) designed and built in 1915 a small 37 mm cannon capable of firing a 1 pound, and then later 1.5 pound high-explosive shell. Vickers had acquired in the early twenties the rights for this gun and after a proposal to the Air Staff a specification was issued to develop a [...]

Saunders Roe SR.53 and 177

Saunders Roe SR.53 and 177

In the mid-fifties the British aircraft industry produced a number of operational jet fighters with trans-sonic capabilities like the Hawker Hunter, Gloster Javelin, De Havilland Sea-Vixen and the Vickers-Supermarine Scimitar. During this time, a new generation of supersonic fighters and fighter-bombers was being developed with a number of various prototypes in [...]

French flying boats and amphibians

French flying boats and amphibians

This article gives an overview of the most important and significant flying boats and amphibians developed and built by the French aircraft industry. In fact France more or less ‘invented’ the flying boat with the Fabre Hydravion which was flown for the first time on 28 March 1910 from the harbour of [...]

WW2 Various Arado and Heinkel

WW2 Various Arado and Heinkel

Images of early Arado and Heinkel prototypes, trainer and seaplanes from the late 1920s and early 1930s. All but one photo come from an Luftwaffen photographers estate and have been developed from his negatives. My special thank goes to Mr. Lars Henriksson and Mr. Lars Sundin as well as our own Nico Braas who helped [...]

Batajnica airbase

Batajnica airbase

The work on construction of Airport Batajnica begun back in 1947 and lasted until 1951, when the airport became operational. The airport was projected to have one grass and two asphalt runways. Traditionaly this airport is a base for the units in-charge for the defending of Belgrade. Batajnica airbase suffered heavy [...]