2010 Hendon RAF Museum
The Royal Air Force Museum Hendon, houses one of the largest aviation collections in the United Kingdom. Over 90 historic aircraft covering the whole span of the first 105 years of aviation development. We visited […]
The Royal Air Force Museum Hendon, houses one of the largest aviation collections in the United Kingdom. Over 90 historic aircraft covering the whole span of the first 105 years of aviation development. We visited […]
The BAC Jet Provost (originally built by Hunting Percival) was a British jet-powered trainer aircraft used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1993. Hunting Percival developed the Jet Provost from the piston-engined […]
The Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod (now British Aerospace) was the first jet-powered patrol aircraft to be designed; earlier designs generally used piston or turboprop engines to improve fuel economy and allow for long duration patrols. Jet engines […]
The British Aerospace Hawk started life as the Hawker-Siddeley P1182 which won the competition for a new advanced trainer for the RAF in 1971. The prototype flew in 1974. The British Aerospace Hawk is a […]
When designing this impressive aircraft, the goal was to build a transonic fighter that had to function according to the NA.39 specifications at low altitude. The plane was designed with a ‘Boundary layer control system’ […]
What the Flying Fortress was for the USAF, that was the AVRO Lancaster for the RAF. The RAF Lancasters flew the night missions in the second World War to Germany. It was a dangerous job, […]