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#4356898 - 05/12/17 12:25 AM Re: RAF Museum Hendon ***** [Re: FlatEric]  
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Thanks for the story.

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#4356933 - 05/12/17 07:35 AM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Thank you for the AAR as always you have the knack of telling a good story.


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#4356939 - 05/12/17 08:56 AM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Great story/pics as usual Eric! And what a fine looking hound you have there.



#4363879 - 06/14/17 01:59 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Hi guys, sorry for the absence and thanks for the feedback regarding my 'expedition' to see the remains of 'Over Exposed'.

BD-123 - glad you like my hound thumbsup On 31st December we got Puskas an 'apprentice'. His name is Ocsi (pronounced 'Erchi'), which means 'little brother' in Hungarian. Here are a couple of photos from Minnis Bay back in April:

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I hope to continue this thread with a few more aircraft from RAF Hendon, along with their histories, shortly.

In the meantime, here's some without any narrative.

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#4364259 - 06/16/17 09:55 AM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Group participation required yep

"Name that plane!" Clue: it's not in a British museum but there is a link to the RAF! And a bonus point if you correctly identify the museum it's in biggrin

'Answers on a postcard to ...' hahaha

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#4364265 - 06/16/17 10:47 AM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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#4364280 - 06/16/17 12:47 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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I have no idea. I'm sure I could find it if I google enough,but for now I will wait.


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#4364284 - 06/16/17 01:17 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Looks like Allicatt is going to collect (at least) the bonus point ... yep

#4364304 - 06/16/17 02:23 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Prior to Googleing for it, I had no idea. Now I know what it is and where it is located. Lovely aircraft!


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#4364356 - 06/16/17 05:28 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Knowing what it is and where it is, but not sure on the connection, but I'll let others guess as I feel like I'm cheating being kind of local

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#4364397 - 06/16/17 09:34 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: Alicatt]  
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#4364998 - 06/20/17 12:30 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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iron mike, thanks for sharing and I hope you enjoyed your visit to Hendon. You were certainly busy taking photos... yep

OK, the aircraft in the 'name that plane' competition is the BAT F.K.23 'Bantam', a British single-seat fighter biplane produced by the British Aerial Transport (BAT) Company Limited of London during World War I. The construction and materials were selected for their lightness (hence the name).

And for the bonus point, you would have correctly identified that it is housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam:

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I'll give the bonus point to Allicatt - I knew that he knew, if you know what I mean.... hahaha

The history of the Bantam is convoluted and starts in mid-1917 when Dutchman Frederick (‘Frits’) Koolhoven left Armstrong Whitworth to join the newly formed Willesden-based BAT, taking his tell-tale ‘FK’ design numbers with him. At BAT Koolhoven's first task centred on designing a company-funded single seat fighter venture, designated FK 22. This was first flown in the early autumn of 1917 and gained Air Board interest and a contract for six examples followed.

Originally planned to use a 120hp ABC Mosquito radial, one of the four FK 22s known to have been built and flown during 1918 used a 100hp Gnome Monosoupape, subsequently replaced by a 110hp Le Rhone 9J rotary. To compound matters, virtually all of the FK 22s varied in airframe detail, but out of this melee emerged the 170hp ABC Wasp powered example in the spring of 1918, the change being considered great enough to warrant the new designation of FK 23 Bantam. Others of the original FK 22 were re-engined with the Wasp, but all of these machines were criticised for the ease with which they would enter a vicious flat spin. To cure this problem, the later nine so-called production aircraft incorporated a modified set of increased span wings and tail unit.

The later FK 23s that appeared in October 1918 had a top speed of 128mph at 6,500 feet, falling to 118mph at 18,000 feet. Time to 10,000 feet was 9 minutes.

One aircraft was delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment on 26 July 1918, one was delivered to the French at Villacoublay and a further aircraft to the United States Army Air Corps at Wright Field in 1922. Time, however, was about to run out on the Bantam with the coming of the Armistice.

Continuous engine problems and downsizing of all the allied air forces resulted in no more orders for the Bantam. Koolhoven returned to Netherlands with one aircraft where it was re-engined with a 200 hp (149 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Lynx radial engine. Several examples were operated as civil racing aircraft and the Bantam was a big hit at the ELTA (First Aviation Exhibition in Amsterdam) in 1919.

#4369047 - 07/13/17 07:05 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Back at the RAF museum ... hahaha

Here are some 'odds and sods' that might be of interest (apologies - some of these photos were taken of objects in glass cabinets so there is some unwanted flare / reflections).

On the left a German MG15 aircraft machine gun (to the right is an MG17 and in the background is a 0.303 Browning; the camouflaged vehicle behind the ring-sight is an RAF fuel bowser).
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The MG15 was a flexible-mount 7.92mm calibre machine gun with 75-round double drum magazine. It was a modular design with various attachments that could be quickly attached or removed. Operation was easy and the bolt remained in the cocked position after expending the 75 round double drum (also called a "saddle drum") magazine, negating the need to re-cock once a fresh magazine was installed.

Starting in late 1940 the MG 15 was replaced by the Mauser 7.92 mm MG 81, MG 81Z (twin-MG 81), MG 131 13 mm machine guns, or MG 151/20 20 mm cannons. Many MG 15s were modified for infantry use as heavier weapons replaced them on Luftwaffe aircraft.

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MG 17 machine gun. The MG 17 was a 7.92 mm machine gun produced by Rheinmetall-Borsig for use at fixed mountings in many World War II Luftwaffe aircraft, typically as forward-firing offensive armament, but also used as fixed, remotely-fired tail guns in certain aircraft variants, such as the Do 217.

The provenance of the museums MG17 is unknown. Once thought to be from the Dornier 17 bomber which crashed on Victoria Station, this type of gun was in fact only fitted to Dornier 17 nightfighters, He-111s and Me-110s.


Toughened glass windscreen taken from a 19 Squadron Spitfire flown by Fleet Air Arm pilot Sub-Lt Blake. A bullet fired from a He-111 apparently passed through the cockpit, clipped the pilot’s ear and shattered the glass from the inside.
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Bomb ‘screamers’. When fitted to a bomb, both the modified bayonet scabbard and cardboard tube would emit a loud screaming sound as they fell, intended to demoralise those on the ground.
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Rear end of a 1Kg German incendiary bomb protruding out from a wooden ‘bomb grab’, designed to enable such bombs to be picked up and disposed of.
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Three rotor Enigma machine – probably an early version used by the Wehrmacht or Luftwaffe (the Kriegsmarine and Abwehr machines always had more than 3 rotors).
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RAF radar display equipment, circa 1940.
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Statue of Air Chief Marshall Keith Park
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC (15 June 1892 – 6 February 1975) was a New Zealand soldier, First World War flying ace and Second World War Royal Air Force commander.

Promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal, Park took command of No. 11 Group RAF, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, in April 1940. He organized fighter patrols over France during the Dunkirk evacuation and in the Battle of Britain his command took the brunt of the Luftwaffe's air attacks. Flying his personalised Hawker Hurricane around his fighter airfields during the battle, Park gained a reputation as a shrewd tactician with an astute grasp of strategic issues and as a popular "hands-on" commander.

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Unit insignia of the RAF and Luftwaffe Squadrons / Staffeln which took part in the Battle of Britain.
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#4369063 - 07/13/17 08:00 PM Re: RAF Museum Hendon [Re: FlatEric]  
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Great stuff Eric,very interesting.


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