Last Sunday we enjoyed a family outing to Hendon Aircraft Museum.
The museum has a new exhibit hall funded by money from the National Lottery:
Nice new entrance hall, with trendy wall of decals and a Spitfire mascot:
The new hall reminded me of my teenage bedroom ceiling covered in hanging Airfix models, only here it's the real thing:
A walk inside the Sunderland flying boat made easyJet seem like luxury :-)
Say cheese:
There are lots of fun hands-on exhibits, including this hot-air balloon:
A remote controlled Cessna in a wind tunnel:
This was our favourite, a parcel drop simulator. First a package is loaded into a model plane using a lift. Then the plane flies across the ceiling, the parcel released under control of bomb-aimer Jed:
A nice day out, even for a peace-nick like me!
im chandler cunningham from lexington north carolina in the USA. the fifth picture down has the p-51d mustang that has donald duck on it used to be my grandfathers plane. his name was jacob henry cunningham he had the plane when the # was n6319t.
This maybe an unappropriate approach, but while in England recently I was informed that after serving in RAF from 1946-1948 I am entitled to a certificate and service medal. My RAF number was 2323515.
If you could pass this to the appropriate office for any action I would appreciate it. Thank you.
Alan Derek Marsh
hi my name is kyle and i was wondering if you had any pictures on the sunderland flying boat as when i was 3 or 4years old i had never seen a flying boat or heared of one but i could not stop talking about the sunderland and how i used to sit in the front where the needles are sticking out and my name was either captain capboard or cupboard that was in pembrokedock in the sea cadets my dad used to work there but he was only there for three months when this happened and he didnt know anything about it and what i was saying his name is michael steven i am 15 now and i had to tell these people where i sat and where my office was and was wondering if you could help me with any information you have please contact me back i will be really greatfull to you many thanks kyle matthews
Hi Kyle. Suggest you contact the museum (links above). I'm just a guy who visited it, four years ago.