Unbelievably beautiful! War machines...yes. Works of art and carriers of history these are. Appreciate the planes for what they were and are now. The memories and adventures these planes saw was phenomenal. I get goose bumps just thinking of them as well as the many brave men who flew them.
+@hipcat Collings will be building a Ju-87D and is said to be an airworthy project. Although it's possible Collings will only fly it a few times and retire it to their museum.
There is a Stuka on display in a museum in Chicago. I have seen it up close. It was captured in North Africa and does not have the spats on the landing gear because of the desert sand that they operated in. Truly an iconic aircraft.
@@lesleybryce1084 why asleep? I know exactly what that emblem stood for in WW2, I also know its origins and how different its meanings were a thousand years ago. The fact remains though that if you want to historically display an item (like this aircraft) you display it as it was and do not leave out insignia because some people might be offended.
Not pandering to every blip in societal temperature and trend doesn't mean that one is asleep, quite the opposite, it show's reason and stability. I'm not trying to be controversial, just stating a fact. We cannot eradicate everything in society that doesn't suit us. The last person who tried to impose an order on society which caused us to go to war, did it under this very emblem. @@lesleybryce1084
I worked at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola FL. One Thursday before an air show planes flew in all day. I watched a HE111 fly in with an ME109 behind it. Following those two was a P51. It was awesome
My neighbour pulled up one day and says, look what i just brought at auction, no one was bidding for it, its the only working stuka dive bomber engine in the world. It was about 5 ft high and 2 ft wide, 12 cylinder 2 stroke with 2 cylinders opposed sharing one cylinder, supercharged. Dont know if this plane used the same engine but it was an impressive bit of kit. My neighbour used to rebuild merlin engines, and he just thought this was interesting.
The JU 87 had an inverted V12 Four Stroke engine, the Junkers Jumo 210, although, like the Me109 prototype, an earlier version was Rolls Royce Kestrel powered. From the description this was most likely a Jumo 207 opposed piston two stroke diesel engine from a JU 86P reconnaissance aircraft.
Yes, it is hanging from the ceiling of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It flew to support the DAK and was captured in Libia. The Museum also has U-505.
I once dug up a aeloron from one of these in a back garden in West Bromwich it was made of timber I kept it for a while then threw it Away apparently it had crash landed nearby , one of the elderly neighbours told me he had seen it smouldering when he left for school one morning hard times
I was there last April. To stand next to both aircraft, as well as our own RAF planes, was simply surreal.....but the JU-87 alone made my day.....only one of two left on the planet & there it was!
This JU 87 was considered for using in the Battle of Britain film. It was kept at RAF Henlow with all the other film aircraft undergoing work for airworthiness. It was ground run but a decision was made to use models instead. The origional idea was to use both together, this is why the completed models are Ju 87 D versions to match the real aircraft. As we know the Ju87 B was the type used in 1940.When the RAF Museum at Hendon was opened i think in 1973 this Ju87 became an exibit in the Battle of Britain Hall along with He111 Ju 88 Bf 110 Bf 109 Spitfire Hurricane Gladiator Defiant Blenheim and CR 42, not all the correct marks, but correct types that took part in the Battle. Only missing type was Do 17. RAF Museum Cosford now have a recovered wreck from sea bed from English Channel. The collection is now split between both museums which is a shame.
+@richardmarshall4322 I have read that it was ground-run but they decided it was not in good condition to fly. I wish someone had the presence of mind to film that or photograph it. I've never seen photo evidence that it actually ran.
Get your arse over and stay in North London. You can visit Hendon museum, the mosquito museum in Hatfield and then Duxford which is a 50 minute drive up a motorway. You could do the lot in two days and then get over to France on Eurostar for the Normandy museums …
There was a ' Stuka' on display in perfect condition at RAF St Athan in South Wales for years in the '60's. I used to see it every September at the ' RAF at home' Battle of Britain day.
@@BaronFlyingClub Could very well be. In 1970, they had one of the Spanish Casa 2.111, from the " Battle of Brutain" film on display, still with fake blood on the plexiglass nose!
Danke für die schönen Bilder 😎👌 Sehr selten diese Stuka Ich würde überall hingehen,nur um diese Stuka einmal fliegen zu sehen 😎👌 Ich glaube sie trauen sich nicht,weil es eines der letzten Exemplare ist.
One day I was coming home from running some errands. I drove past Falcon Field in Mesa when a plane flew directly overhead. At first glance I thought it was a DC3/C47, but after getting a better look at it I could tell it was a Henkel 111. It was the last flying example in the world. A week later the aircraft crashed, killing all aboard. It was sad to know I was one of the last people to see one flying, sadder yet that lives were lost and the plane was damaged beyond repair.
Bloody hell,that's dreadful.but these are bloody old machines now,and that's the risk one takes. Doesn't mean at all I'm not terribly sad for the poor buggers and their families but they knew,or should have known the risk.
I’d been in that plane. It was an amazing experience (didn’t go up in it, just crawled all over the insides). I believe it was actually a Spanish CASA 2.111 conversion. It crashed in 2003. Sad.
I think I may have seen it too, in the early 80s when I was coming out if school aged about 6. It was definitely a hienkel 111, I remember Shitting myself at the time BECAUSE I knew that fact (not helped by not knowing what an airshow was either), I just wasn't informed enough notice if it was the Spanish variant or German.
Thanks for showing. The Stuka is the later variant Ju 87 D more common in the Eastern Campaigns, as opposed to that in 1940 Battle of Britain era, the Ju 87 B. The canopy is the Tell-Tale.
+@allsticknocarrot7416 It did leave the factory as a Ju-87D and was later recycled back and rebuilt into a Ju-87G-2. The British captured it still new from the rebuild near the end of the war. It was repainted in the early 1970s and the paint represents another aircraft.
Last time I went with my son they thought it was a good idea to display them in virtual darkness. I wrote to them and they said it was to create atmosphere. Glad they have had a rethink! Maybe I will go back now you can actually see them 😂
Last full day (Nov 19) of a 2 month UK holiday my son bought me here. What a special day, we covered all hangers. My feet were stuffed but the exhilaration of Hendon kept me going. I must have taken a 1000 pic's. Thanks for showing the video.
There’s two Stuka’s in the world in museums and one that’s being made airworthy in the Museum of flight in Everett,Wa in the US. It’s been put together from multiple crashed aircraft by the late Billionaire Paul Allen. At this point who knows when it will be finished?
@@ronaldweed6103 Did you hear the Cavanaugh museum is being closed? The airport wants the land to build a new jet facility. I wonder what will happen to all the aircraft in the collection. They have a Grumman Panther that was once airworthy. They gave up flying it due to the high cost of keeping it flyable. So sad to loose another air museum.
Habe zwar kaum etwas verstanden, aber die Begeisterung ist zu spüren. Die He 111 könnte, nach der Form der Lufteinlässe der Motoren eine Originale sein. Mein Onkel Peter war Pilot einer He 111, mein Vater flog eine Ju 87 als Schlachtflugzeug.
Thanks for that geirsson here is the translation hardly understood anything, but the enthusiasm is palpable. The He 111 could be an original, judging by the shape of the engine air intakes. My uncle Peter was a He 111 pilot, my father flew a Ju 87 as an attack aircraft.
Sad that not one is flying today! I read that a Stuka has been in the process of being rebuilt to fly over the last several years with most of the parts being remanufactured at a huge cost. If I remember correctly, it was from a crashed aircraft and it’s being rebuilt in New Zealand. I was lucky to have seen a FW-190 A/8N replica that was partially original and also had new parts made by original dies. The engine though is actually a Pratt & Whitney R2800 radial engine. Beautiful to see fly, but is amazing how small the aircraft actually was. Seemed bigger in movies and war reels.
+@kevinmurphy3464 The Stuka project is in the US, with the parts and components restored by experts in several countries - airframe was in Hungary, avionics were in Austria, engine in the US, cooling system in New Zealand and propeller in the UK and Germany. There is a second Stuka project starting in the US, but no announcements on where the work will be performed.
That’s really awesome to hear! I really love watching aircraft where they belong (Flying amongst the clouds). I always support museums and airshows. Walked through a B17 and I was really surprised by how tight everything really was. Thanks for the info!
Stuka, and the entire collection has been bought by Steuart Walton, grandson of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. The collection will be eventually moved and he does plan on finishing the projects started under Paul Allen, like the Stuka and Me262
I’m not sure. I lived in Chelmsford not too far away, and as a kid watched Battle of Britain and obviously wanted to be a spitfire pilot at 12 😂. Years later I was absolutely astounded when I went over to the Southend airport there in front of me was a HE 111 I was amazed. It had been there for ages, but I admit I didn’t check the engines I was just so taken aback
Kermit Weeks has one in his collection at Fantasy of Flight in Florida that is currently being restored to my knowledge it will be the only flying example of a Stuka when completed
+@brianaustin208 Not Kermit Weeks, but Paul Allen's museum in Washington State. Allen passed away and his museum has recently sold to another wealthy owner. Another flying Stuka project has just been announced with Collings Foundation.
Wow where the hell was that museum that's amazing I didn't think there was any that survived rare is one hell of a understatement totally priceless like a original Da Vinci
I remember that as a kid. We used to cycle from East Ham to the Southend Air Museum (we also used to cycle to the Rotonda museum at Woolwich). Great days and fortunately not many car's on the road. I still remember the German pilot wrapped in sausages as we called it as kids ! Them days you could climb on/in the displays. In airplanes and on tank and big guns. The museum's all got broken up and sold off. The air museum was on an industrial estate (by the feel of it) if I remember ??? Great times (late 60s and 70s) to grow up in London area's (yes will still had bomb site's and gun emplacements around). We had a good childhood and imagination playing there. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Great video, but from what I understand from someone who worked at the RAF museum, the JU87 was made from parts of other JU87's that were salvaged after the war. He seemed to indicate it was made up from bits of this and parts of that.
Definitely a beast and at last a proper 111, the Spanish version just rubs me the wrong way with those engines. I've seen a 1/48 scale plastic kit model of the Stuka and it is a beast to, the most impressive model ever., there's just much about this aircraft. You would never put these two back in the air even if you could, the chances are they will crash at some time and it's not fair on the crew.
There is another one in complete condition, in African Corpse configuration, in a museum in Chicago USA. In the N/W of the US Washington State I think, is one that's basically being built out of several big pieces of wrecks from the Russian plains. She's quite complete other than a lot of details and mating of the wings and control surfaces. Sadly, its owner passed and work has stopped as far as I know.
+@Auggies1956 The museum in Washington state has a new wealthy owner and work on the Stuka may resume soon, if they decide to fly it. It will be a Ju-87R-4 and carry the ID of one of the wrecks used for parts. The aircraft is mostly new, engineered by a Hungarian company.
The Confederate air force has a Flying He111 in Texas, its the Casa built one, but its a beauty. I got close to it. Yeuppers in Washington state someone is building a new Stuka, but they stopped gor some odd reason. The UK mueseum looks cool.
I guess you knew Oberst Han-Uhlrich Rudel of the Luftwaffe and highest decorated man in the Wehrmacht- and greatest pilot of the Stuka later helped design the A-19 Warthog
Back in those days museums would fix up the airplanes, paint them etc. rather a shame they didn’t keep them as they were. I recall seeing these two at Hendon on the trip I did to the UK for the 50th anniversary of the BoB. I was impressed with how big the stuka was. No wonder it was so slow. There’s an original in a museum in Chicago. I’m not aware of any others.
+@sblack48 Captured aircraft were often painted several times, so the original paint is only documented in photos. The Smithsonian Museum uses photos combined with gradual sanding and infrared photography to find traces of original markings during a restoration. The Stuka in the RAF Museum does not have original paint, since it was repainted in the early 1970s after damage while it was being moved by truck. The Stuka that is in the Chicago museum still has the original North Africa camouflage paint from when it was captured, so very rare. Paul Allen's museum has been building a flyable Stuka and they were carefully recreating the layers of paint found on the wreckage, starting from the North Africa paint from the factory.
@@FiveCentsPlease i was at the national aviation museum in Ottawa Canada recently and almost all the aircraft from the collection going back to the 60s have been repainted. But some of the collection that has gone on display more recently have been left as is. It’s just the newer way of doing things. They have a Heinkel 162 that they simply reassembled from long term storage and didn’t fix any damage or wear and tear and it’s pretty beat up, but I prefer it that way. Btw that Paul Allen Stuka is a new build aircraft. I’m glad they are doing it and hope the new owner gets it flying but it cannot be thought of as a restoration.,
@@sblack48 Allen's museum kept the original wreckage from the Stuka. They actually used wreckage from two examples recovered from Russia and will use the ID from one of them. I'm not sure how much original material or components found their way into the rebuild. I think they gathered up ten engines and other spare parts to get enough components for a flyable unit. The basic airframe did look to be almost entirely new from the photos in Hungary.
@@sblack48 Also I'm not a fan of preserving damage and dirt inflicted on a rare aircraft by their keepers. For example the Ho-229 V3 at the Smithsonian is a rotten mess of fungus from improper storage. It would serve the aircraft better to reconstruct it as the unfinished example found in the Gotha factory, and just store the rotted original parts.
Came out of school in 1966 in harrow on the hill a plane flew right over me it was a He111 Spanish verson it was landing at Raf Northolt Ran in side tole my fiends i just seen a german He111 thay all said i was lieing and when outside and saw it landing
I have never seen 111. I live near Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Dayton and they have a lot of Luftwaffe planes. But not a 111. Also, At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago last year. I saw a Stuka for the very first time.
Come to Everett Wa ,,,Paul Allen has an awesome collection one of Wallmart kids bought it , the museum is call ,,,the( Flying Heritage Museum) they actually fly them a few times a year
More and more "Museums" are a travesy of the word. I visited the Titanic "museum" in Belfast, and it is nothing but a huge set of galleries with multimedia presentations and a moderately light sprinkling of disjointed non specific/irrelevant artifacts. I expected to see shipyard record books and artifacts from the Harland & Wolf shipyard that built her, and maybe a number of artifacts that had been looted, ahem "recovered" from the wreck, but there was almost nothing that I couldn't have just bought any number of books and seen just as much of instead. My own local museum as a kid was packed full of historical artifacts, but to visit it now it appears tha most of them have been either sold or salted away in storage, to be replaced by the same banal "multimedia presentations", the "eye candy" for the undiscerning visitor, that seems to be par for the course for modern day "museums". I remember visiting RAF Hendon as a kid and being blown away with the physical exhibits there.... Thank god it looks as if they are keeping up the true meaning of museums to this day. Its one of the very few reasons I'd one day like to revisit London. I also well remember visiting an air display at RAF Duxford in the early 1980s, and have never seen an air show to hold a candle to it ever since. There IS I believe an ongoing project in the US to get another Ju87 back into flying condition, can you imagine how MINDBLOWING that would be to see at an airshow display? Diving from 10,000ft with its "Jericho trumpet" screaming away !!! I'd pay top dollar just for that experience!!! Thanks for the video of these fantastic exhibits.
Plenty of proper museums doing multimedia presentations well. Case in point is the National WWII Museum in New Orleans with a collection spread over 5 buildings and a running PT boat on the lake! A sprinkling of multi media and films to attract kids and others who otherwise would not be interested is not a bad thing. Another example is the Waterloo Museum on the battlefield. I was there in 2015 when it opened, the exhibits are well organized and the 3D film shown does not detract from the artifacts. IMO with any subject that has become ingrained in pop culture like the Titanic or King Tut as another example you get more ot a La Vegas show than a museum, unfortunately. I have a long list of museums to visit. One such museum is the Tank Museum at Bovington - visiting during tank day is on my bucket list, now that is a proper show!
@@ericboyle8296 A sprinkling of multimedia, the natural successor of printed information panels of yesterday, are of course a useful addition to physical exhibits.... but more and more current day "museums" I visit have the balance completely wrong. It may be acceptable for younger people who have never experienced how museums used to be, but for older visitors they're a pale shadow of how they used to be. The Titanic museum I mention above was one of the most egregious examples.... multiple large galleries filled with video screens and huge printed panels of photos that can be seen in many many books on the subject, with precious few physical exhibits. I wasn't the only one voicing that opinion either. I have visited Bovington in the early 90s and it was indeed EPIC, and looking at videos of the establishment today it appears to have gone from strength to strength and retained most vehiles on display, but added in the multimedia aspect, So I agree thats it's not all bad news.
The yellow stribe on the stuka was a painting from germans for the eastern front against russia so it came after the war to great britain it was not the painting for the war against britain
+@neumannernst3737 The Stuka wears the markings from another aircraft (W.Nr. 494085), which not the aircraft on display. The RAF Stuka was captured from at the factory after conversion to G-2 standard.
The mood of the time is responsible for the extreme lack of German war machines in preservation, and it's understandable. The whole world had been subjected to such horrific treatment by the Nazi regime for 6 years, it's no wonder they had no stomach for retaining artifacts from that era. It actually surprises me that there such enthusiasm now for these objects, although I myself am fascinated and find them very interesting, but then I didn't live through that time. I had relatives that fought in WW2 and some of them would not even buy German made products or tolerate any mention of Germany in conversation. Time is not a great healer for some.
I think they were very primitive aircraft even in the day they were made , German bombers were so behind the times compared to what was really required for the war.
I know most don’t want to hear it but they should never fly these planes if there that rare. Should be on permanent display as part of the military museum watched over by young military personnel to remember thier past
German forces in 1945 before surrendering deliberately destroyed all of their equipment (especially tanks, aircraft, and V weapons) to make sure the enemy could not use it or reverse engineer the technology. So anything WW2 German is very rare and expensive.
Theres another Heinkel in Norway that I think they fished out of a lake or something. The wilderness of Russia is a treasure trove of aircraft waiting to be found and restored. A project likely to be delayed for many more years yet.
+@MrContemptable The He-111 pulled of the lake in Norway was in amazing condition and was taken to Germany for one of their museums. I have not seen any pictures of the preservation work. A Ju-88 in similar condition was pulled from the same lake and it is also being carefully preserved and looks amazing.
+@GBURGE55 Two complete examples, plus wreckage from several more, plus a new flying restoration, and another flying restoration just getting started using an example pulled from a lake.
+@FlyinBrian777 No sirens on this model. It left the factory as a Ju-87D and was recycled for rebuild as a Ju-87G. The British captured it new from the rebuild.
@@FiveCentsPlease That's too bad, but I'm not complaining sir I'm glad that somebody is keeping this aircraft preserved. I've always wanted to recreate a Jericho and play with it with compressed air, just to see what they sound like irl . Thank you.
@@FiveCentsPlease PS: I saw it either on Facebook or on the internet but somebody is restoring a Stuka to flying condition. You might know about that already.
@@FlyinBrian777 The Stuka is in final assembly, but paused while new owners take over the entire museum collection. ua-cam.com/video/heo1kldeyZk/v-deo.html (They are working on sirens, but are missing parts to copy them correctly.) Also, a second Stuka project has just been announced for the US.
I understand them being scrapped and the material being reused during the war. But to have such iconic machines, machines not saved after the conflict is utter bullshit. doesn't matter which side your country was on after the war, these machines should be preserved as a monument to the young blokes that flew and died in them. And also as a monument to human ingenuity as progress of technology. I also dont mean everything should be saved, but enough so that each new generation has access to what their grandparents etc operated. So much appreciation and knowledge been lost.
+@MrPDoff There are two intact original Stukas in world, this one in the UK and one in the US. There is wreckage or partial wreckage of perhaps another six or eight. One project has taken the wreckage of two for parts and constructed a new Stuka airframe which will be the first flying example since WW2. (And overcoming significant technical challenges with rebuilding any Stuka.) A second new Stuka project has just been announced in the US, which is also said to be a flying restoration.
Unbelievably beautiful! War machines...yes. Works of art and carriers of history these are. Appreciate the planes for what they were and are now. The memories and adventures these planes saw was phenomenal. I get goose bumps just thinking of them as well as the many brave men who flew them.
Don' t forget RAF COSFORD museum! FW 190, Me 109, Me 262, Me 410, Ju 88!! all of them originals... outstanding place!!!
The Collings Foundation has recovered a wreck from the bottom of a Finnish lake that they are restoring. This makes a grand total of 4.
+@hipcat Collings will be building a Ju-87D and is said to be an airworthy project. Although it's possible Collings will only fly it a few times and retire it to their museum.
There is a Stuka on display in a museum in Chicago. I have seen it up close. It was captured in North Africa and does not have the spats on the landing gear because of the desert sand that they operated in. Truly an iconic aircraft.
I am glad the museum didn't go woke and still has the Swastika on the Stuka.
The colour scheme would be incorrect without it.
You mean stay asleep and not woke.
@@lesleybryce1084 why asleep? I know exactly what that emblem stood for in WW2, I also know its origins and how different its meanings were a thousand years ago. The fact remains though that if you want to historically display an item (like this aircraft) you display it as it was and do not leave out insignia because some people might be offended.
Not pandering to every blip in societal temperature and trend doesn't mean that one is asleep, quite the opposite, it show's reason and stability. I'm not trying to be controversial, just stating a fact. We cannot eradicate everything in society that doesn't suit us. The last person who tried to impose an order on society which caused us to go to war, did it under this very emblem. @@lesleybryce1084
@@lesleybryce1084grow up,you can't change HISTORY!! GET OVER THE SWASTIKA AND THE CONFEDERATE FLAG ALREADY!!
Lived in Hendon for 50 yrs, went every year to have a look at the ww2 stuff and to the model shop round the corner.
When I go there, i'm always shocked how big the Stuka is.
Me too, Amazing!
Only went there once. You're right they were enormous, prior to seeing one for real I thought they'd be much the same size as a fighter of the time.
Yes i have seen one in romaniner much bigger that i thought 😊
1 stuka is being worked on in Norway to flying condition
Absolutely a beast !!!
Stuka was similar to f4u corsair
Wow - HE111 with the original engines. Amazing.
I worked at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola FL. One Thursday before an air show planes flew in all day. I watched a HE111 fly in with an ME109 behind it. Following those two was a P51. It was awesome
Amazing sight thanks.
Privileged to live a few miles from RAF Hendon and The De Havilland Heritage Centre London Colney.
WW2 aircraft paradise in my opinion
My neighbour pulled up one day and says, look what i just brought at auction, no one was bidding for it, its the only working stuka dive bomber engine in the world. It was about 5 ft high and 2 ft wide, 12 cylinder 2 stroke with 2 cylinders opposed sharing one cylinder, supercharged. Dont know if this plane used the same engine but it was an impressive bit of kit. My neighbour used to rebuild merlin engines, and he just thought this was interesting.
Wow that has to be worth a fortune.
@@BaronFlyingClub this was about 35 years ago, dont know what he did with it
The JU 87 had an inverted V12 Four Stroke engine, the Junkers Jumo 210, although, like the Me109 prototype, an earlier version was Rolls Royce Kestrel powered.
From the description this was most likely a Jumo 207 opposed piston two stroke diesel engine from a JU 86P reconnaissance aircraft.
Outstanding aircraft , Thanks for sharing them with us ! 👌✔️
That Stuka is a monster!
Awesome, totally awesome. I have to get to Hendon to see these in 2024
about 18 years ago I saw a Stuka in one of the Chicago museums. I believe it is still there.
Yes, it is hanging from the ceiling of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It flew to support the DAK and was captured in Libia. The Museum also has U-505.
Still is, with a Spit closely in pursuit!!!
I once dug up a aeloron from one of these in a back garden in West Bromwich it was made of timber I kept it for a while then threw it Away apparently it had crash landed nearby ,
one of the elderly neighbours told me he had seen it smouldering when he left for school one morning hard times
I had the same reaction when I was looking at them last Thursday. Touching history 👍🏼
That Stuka is massive size ! bigger than I thought. Would love to visit that museum. Thanks for sharing the video.
The Avenger or TBF is amazingly large as well.
Beautiful machines. Sad there are hardly any left. Thanks for the video !
I was there last April. To stand next to both aircraft, as well as our own RAF planes, was simply surreal.....but the JU-87 alone made my day.....only one of two left on the planet & there it was!
There are some good ones at Cosford the JU88 night fighter and the Me 262 spring to mind.
Wow, they are impressive. They both beautiful and so different from each other.
This JU 87 was considered for using in the Battle of Britain film. It was kept at RAF Henlow with all the other film aircraft undergoing work for airworthiness. It was ground run but a decision was made to use models instead. The origional idea was to use both together, this is why the completed models are Ju 87 D versions to match the real aircraft. As we know the Ju87 B was the type used in 1940.When the RAF Museum at Hendon was opened i think in 1973 this Ju87 became an exibit in the Battle of Britain Hall along with He111 Ju 88 Bf 110 Bf 109 Spitfire Hurricane Gladiator Defiant Blenheim and CR 42, not all the correct marks, but correct types that took part in the Battle. Only missing type was Do 17. RAF Museum Cosford now have a recovered wreck from sea bed from English Channel. The collection is now split between both museums which is a shame.
I remember visiting the RAF museum in 1973 with the air cadets it was amazing.
+@richardmarshall4322 I have read that it was ground-run but they decided it was not in good condition to fly. I wish someone had the presence of mind to film that or photograph it. I've never seen photo evidence that it actually ran.
They made a Ju 87 out of a Proctor, I believe, for the film, but decided not to use that either because of some "problematic flying qualities"!
@@leifvejby8023 Indeed they did, think they dubbed it the Proctuka. Was dangerous to fly
@@FiveCentsPlease There is a photo of the aircraft at Henlow. Its on the internet
I'm an American. It's worth a trip to England just to see these two fantastic aircraft!
I was amazed to see them. Easily worth millions each just as they are because they are the real deal.
Get your arse over and stay in North London. You can visit Hendon museum, the mosquito museum in Hatfield and then Duxford which is a 50 minute drive up a motorway. You could do the lot in two days and then get over to France on Eurostar for the Normandy museums …
I plan to get my 87 year old arse over there, hopefully, before I "kick the bucket"!@@stuartrichardson6928
@@stuartrichardson6928 I plan to get my 87 year old arse over there. Hopefully, before I "kick the bucket"!
Head up to Paine Field in Everette Washington, and see the Stuka there
There was a ' Stuka' on display in perfect condition at RAF St Athan in South Wales for years in the '60's. I used to see it every September at the ' RAF at home' Battle of Britain day.
I wonder if it is the same one?
@@BaronFlyingClub Could very well be.
In 1970, they had one of the Spanish Casa 2.111, from the " Battle of Brutain" film on display, still with fake blood on the plexiglass nose!
+@alfhookham This is the same Stuka from RAF St Athan.
Danke für die schönen Bilder 😎👌 Sehr selten diese Stuka
Ich würde überall hingehen,nur um diese Stuka einmal fliegen zu sehen 😎👌
Ich glaube sie trauen sich nicht,weil es eines der letzten Exemplare ist.
One day I was coming home from running some errands. I drove past Falcon Field in Mesa when a plane flew directly overhead. At first glance I thought it was a DC3/C47, but after getting a better look at it I could tell it was a Henkel 111. It was the last flying example in the world. A week later the aircraft crashed, killing all aboard. It was sad to know I was one of the last people to see one flying, sadder yet that lives were lost and the plane was damaged beyond repair.
Very sad indeed, in a way I would love to see it fly again but also perhaps it is better off in the museum where it is relatively safe.
Bloody hell,that's dreadful.but these are bloody old machines now,and that's the risk one takes. Doesn't mean at all I'm not terribly sad for the poor buggers and their families but they knew,or should have known the risk.
I’d been in that plane. It was an amazing experience (didn’t go up in it, just crawled all over the insides). I believe it was actually a Spanish CASA 2.111 conversion. It crashed in 2003. Sad.
I think I may have seen it too, in the early 80s when I was coming out if school aged about 6. It was definitely a hienkel 111, I remember
Shitting myself at the time BECAUSE I knew that fact (not helped by not knowing what an airshow was either), I just wasn't informed enough notice if it was the Spanish variant or German.
@mikeycraig8970 Oh, I couldn’t tell whether it was German or Spanish. I think one of the people at the air show told me.
Thanks for showing. The Stuka is the later variant Ju 87 D more common in the Eastern Campaigns, as opposed to that in 1940 Battle of Britain era, the Ju 87 B. The canopy is the Tell-Tale.
+@allsticknocarrot7416 It did leave the factory as a Ju-87D and was later recycled back and rebuilt into a Ju-87G-2. The British captured it still new from the rebuild near the end of the war. It was repainted in the early 1970s and the paint represents another aircraft.
Last time I went with my son they thought it was a good idea to display them in virtual darkness. I wrote to them and they said it was to create atmosphere. Glad they have had a rethink! Maybe I will go back now you can actually see them 😂
Thank you !!
Last full day (Nov 19) of a 2 month UK holiday my son bought me here. What a special day, we covered all hangers. My feet were stuffed but the exhilaration of Hendon kept me going. I must have taken a 1000 pic's.
Thanks for showing the video.
Thanks! Both planes look amazingly well restored.
They're not - they are completely neglected. Very sad
As far as I know these were captured examples so are probably as original as can be structurally at least.
There’s two Stuka’s in the world in museums and one that’s being made airworthy in the Museum of flight in Everett,Wa in the US. It’s been put together from multiple crashed aircraft by the late Billionaire Paul Allen. At this point who knows when it will be finished?
I look forward to seeing that.
It's not in Seattle anymore.@@BaronFlyingClub
Saw it, too. Awesome, Stuka. I saw the H-111 at Arlington Airport, & toured the inside of it.
@@ronaldweed6103 Did you hear the Cavanaugh museum is being closed? The airport wants the land to build a new jet facility. I wonder what will happen to all the aircraft in the collection. They have a Grumman Panther that was once airworthy. They gave up flying it due to the high cost of keeping it flyable. So sad to loose another air museum.
@fw1421 no I haven't heard,that's sad news.
Both are like 'Rocking Horse shit!" ..Be Cool if they could fly!😆
Habe zwar kaum etwas verstanden, aber die Begeisterung ist zu spüren.
Die He 111 könnte, nach der Form der Lufteinlässe der Motoren eine Originale sein.
Mein Onkel Peter war Pilot einer He 111, mein Vater flog eine Ju 87 als Schlachtflugzeug.
Thanks for that geirsson here is the translation
hardly understood anything, but the enthusiasm is palpable.
The He 111 could be an original, judging by the shape of the engine air intakes.
My uncle Peter was a He 111 pilot, my father flew a Ju 87 as an attack aircraft.
Sad that not one is flying today! I read that a Stuka has been in the process of being rebuilt to fly over the last several years with most of the parts being remanufactured at a huge cost. If I remember correctly, it was from a crashed aircraft and it’s being rebuilt in New Zealand. I was lucky to have seen a FW-190 A/8N replica that was partially original and also had new parts made by original dies. The engine though is actually a Pratt & Whitney R2800 radial engine. Beautiful to see fly, but is amazing how small the aircraft actually was. Seemed bigger in movies and war reels.
+@kevinmurphy3464 The Stuka project is in the US, with the parts and components restored by experts in several countries - airframe was in Hungary, avionics were in Austria, engine in the US, cooling system in New Zealand and propeller in the UK and Germany. There is a second Stuka project starting in the US, but no announcements on where the work will be performed.
That’s really awesome to hear! I really love watching aircraft where they belong (Flying amongst the clouds). I always support museums and airshows. Walked through a B17 and I was really surprised by how tight everything really was. Thanks for the info!
There's a Ju-87 R being restored in Everett, WA.. was anyway, prior to Covid. Lovely planes, great share!
Stuka, and the entire collection has been bought by Steuart Walton, grandson of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. The collection will be eventually moved and he does plan on finishing the projects started under Paul Allen, like the Stuka and Me262
I’m not sure. I lived in Chelmsford not too far away, and as a kid watched Battle of Britain and obviously wanted to be a spitfire pilot at 12 😂. Years later I was absolutely astounded when I went over to the Southend airport there in front of me was a HE 111 I was amazed. It had been there for ages, but I admit I didn’t check the engines I was just so taken aback
If my wife and I can ever afford a trip to the UK, the IWM and HMS Victory are certainly on the list.
Do it Richard. Tower of London would make a great hat trick for you.
@@andrewmarsden1970 Thanks!
Amazing
I was at RAF Hendon a few days ago. What a fantastic place. I’ll be sure to visit again on my next flight to London
Currently there are two Ju-87's being restored to flying condition as well as three He-111's.
Kermit Weeks has one in his collection at Fantasy of Flight in Florida that is currently being restored to my knowledge it will be the only flying example of a Stuka when completed
+@brianaustin208 Not Kermit Weeks, but Paul Allen's museum in Washington State. Allen passed away and his museum has recently sold to another wealthy owner. Another flying Stuka project has just been announced with Collings Foundation.
Wow where the hell was that museum that's amazing I didn't think there was any that survived rare is one hell of a understatement totally priceless like a original Da Vinci
Hendon London.
Cosworth and hendon both worth a visit though!
There was an HE111 at Southend Airport for years and years.
I did not know that. What happened to it? was it a Spanish one?
I remember that as a kid.
We used to cycle from East Ham to the Southend Air Museum (we also used to cycle to the Rotonda museum at Woolwich).
Great days and fortunately not many car's on the road.
I still remember the German pilot wrapped in sausages as we called it as kids !
Them days you could climb on/in the displays. In airplanes and on tank and big guns.
The museum's all got broken up and sold off.
The air museum was on an industrial estate (by the feel of it) if I remember ???
Great times (late 60s and 70s) to grow up in London area's (yes will still had bomb site's and gun emplacements around).
We had a good childhood and imagination playing there.
Thanks for the nostalgia.
Fantastic!
Ruddy Stukas !
Big wow - amazing!
Love that museum
I love the Stuka. So cool.
Wow
Non capisco l’inglese. Comunque veramente un bel restauro, i 2 migliori cacciabombardieri della Luftwaffe della seconda guerra mondiale 👍👏
Mi dispiace di non parlare italiano, sto ancora lottando con lo spagnolo.
Great video and well said.
Awesome
A Stuka is being made airworthy in USA currently
+@paulnieuwenhoven5842 A second airworthy Stuka project has just been announced in the US and it will be a Ju-87D model.
The Stuka engine still runs the he111 is a parachute version of
There is a Trop Stuka in the Chicago museum of science and technology.
In a word, wow. 👍
Absolutely superb!! Should get a few reversed engineered, and then get them flying!! 🥰👍
"GD!"
There are 2 Stukas left in the world and one being built.
+@simonrussell6884 There are two intact originals, plus two rebuild projects, and wreckage/partial wreckage of six or eight more.
Great video, but from what I understand from someone who worked at the RAF museum, the JU87 was made from parts of other JU87's that were salvaged after the war. He seemed to indicate it was made up from bits of this and parts of that.
Definitely a beast and at last a proper 111, the Spanish version just rubs me the wrong way with those engines. I've seen a 1/48 scale plastic kit model of the Stuka and it is a beast to, the most impressive model ever., there's just much about this aircraft. You would never put these two back in the air even if you could, the chances are they will crash at some time and it's not fair on the crew.
will be two flying soon
There is another one in complete condition, in African Corpse configuration, in a museum in Chicago USA. In the N/W of the US Washington State I think, is one that's basically being built out of several big pieces of wrecks from the Russian plains. She's quite complete other than a lot of details and mating of the wings and control surfaces. Sadly, its owner passed and work has stopped as far as I know.
+@Auggies1956 The museum in Washington state has a new wealthy owner and work on the Stuka may resume soon, if they decide to fly it. It will be a Ju-87R-4 and carry the ID of one of the wrecks used for parts. The aircraft is mostly new, engineered by a Hungarian company.
The Confederate air force has a Flying He111 in Texas, its the Casa built one, but its a beauty. I got close to it. Yeuppers in Washington state someone is building a new Stuka, but they stopped gor some odd reason. The UK mueseum looks cool.
+@Workerbee-zy5nx The CAF Spanish CASA 2.111 was destroyed in a fatal accident in July 2003.
@@FiveCentsPlease Grrr. Did not know that.😳 I walked past it in 98 with my ex wife back then at the local airport.
I guess you knew Oberst Han-Uhlrich Rudel of the Luftwaffe and highest decorated man in the Wehrmacht- and greatest pilot of the Stuka later helped design the A-19 Warthog
A10 warthog. I used to fly them in Cuba. No I did not know Oberst Han-Uhlrich Rudel.
Yes, sorry typo A10 not 19 :-)=must have been greta flying that
Back in those days museums would fix up the airplanes, paint them etc. rather a shame they didn’t keep them as they were. I recall seeing these two at Hendon on the trip I did to the UK for the 50th anniversary of the BoB. I was impressed with how big the stuka was. No wonder it was so slow. There’s an original in a museum in Chicago. I’m not aware of any others.
+@sblack48 Captured aircraft were often painted several times, so the original paint is only documented in photos. The Smithsonian Museum uses photos combined with gradual sanding and infrared photography to find traces of original markings during a restoration. The Stuka in the RAF Museum does not have original paint, since it was repainted in the early 1970s after damage while it was being moved by truck. The Stuka that is in the Chicago museum still has the original North Africa camouflage paint from when it was captured, so very rare. Paul Allen's museum has been building a flyable Stuka and they were carefully recreating the layers of paint found on the wreckage, starting from the North Africa paint from the factory.
@@FiveCentsPlease i was at the national aviation museum in Ottawa Canada recently and almost all the aircraft from the collection going back to the 60s have been repainted. But some of the collection that has gone on display more recently have been left as is. It’s just the newer way of doing things. They have a Heinkel 162 that they simply reassembled from long term storage and didn’t fix any damage or wear and tear and it’s pretty beat up, but I prefer it that way. Btw that Paul Allen Stuka is a new build aircraft. I’m glad they are doing it and hope the new owner gets it flying but it cannot be thought of as a restoration.,
@@sblack48 Allen's museum kept the original wreckage from the Stuka. They actually used wreckage from two examples recovered from Russia and will use the ID from one of them. I'm not sure how much original material or components found their way into the rebuild. I think they gathered up ten engines and other spare parts to get enough components for a flyable unit. The basic airframe did look to be almost entirely new from the photos in Hungary.
@@FiveCentsPlease there are a couple of detailed videos on youtube
@@sblack48 Also I'm not a fan of preserving damage and dirt inflicted on a rare aircraft by their keepers. For example the Ho-229 V3 at the Smithsonian is a rotten mess of fungus from improper storage. It would serve the aircraft better to reconstruct it as the unfinished example found in the Gotha factory, and just store the rotted original parts.
Came out of school in 1966 in harrow on the hill a plane flew right over me it was a He111 Spanish verson it was landing at Raf Northolt
Ran in side tole my fiends i just seen a german He111 thay all said i was lieing and when outside and saw it landing
There is a team working on a Stuka presently. it is just a pile of parts, but hopefully, they will be successful .
I have never seen 111. I live near Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Dayton and they have a lot of Luftwaffe planes. But not a 111. Also, At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago last year. I saw a Stuka for the very first time.
+@PeterMayer I think the USAF Museum was planning to back-date their CASA 2.111 to an He-111 but I do not know if those plans are still in place.
Come to Everett Wa ,,,Paul Allen has an awesome collection one of Wallmart kids bought it , the museum is call ,,,the( Flying Heritage Museum) they actually fly them a few times a year
we did have a HE111 come to our city years ago, i seen it flying around, then later in the usa it crashed in wyoming in 2003
Very sad.
More and more "Museums" are a travesy of the word. I visited the Titanic "museum" in Belfast, and it is nothing but a huge set of galleries with multimedia presentations and a moderately light sprinkling of disjointed non specific/irrelevant artifacts. I expected to see shipyard record books and artifacts from the Harland & Wolf shipyard that built her, and maybe a number of artifacts that had been looted, ahem "recovered" from the wreck, but there was almost nothing that I couldn't have just bought any number of books and seen just as much of instead.
My own local museum as a kid was packed full of historical artifacts, but to visit it now it appears tha most of them have been either sold or salted away in storage, to be replaced by the same banal "multimedia presentations", the "eye candy" for the undiscerning visitor, that seems to be par for the course for modern day "museums".
I remember visiting RAF Hendon as a kid and being blown away with the physical exhibits there.... Thank god it looks as if they are keeping up the true meaning of museums to this day. Its one of the very few reasons I'd one day like to revisit London. I also well remember visiting an air display at RAF Duxford in the early 1980s, and have never seen an air show to hold a candle to it ever since.
There IS I believe an ongoing project in the US to get another Ju87 back into flying condition, can you imagine how MINDBLOWING that would be to see at an airshow display? Diving from 10,000ft with its "Jericho trumpet" screaming away !!! I'd pay top dollar just for that experience!!!
Thanks for the video of these fantastic exhibits.
It would be amazing to see the Stuka in flight again at air displays.
You are so right!
Plenty of proper museums doing multimedia presentations well. Case in point is the National WWII Museum in New Orleans with a collection spread over 5 buildings and a running PT boat on the lake! A sprinkling of multi media and films to attract kids and others who otherwise would not be interested is not a bad thing. Another example is the Waterloo Museum on the battlefield. I was there in 2015 when it opened, the exhibits are well organized and the 3D film shown does not detract from the artifacts.
IMO with any subject that has become ingrained in pop culture like the Titanic or King Tut as another example you get more ot a La Vegas show than a museum, unfortunately. I have a long list of museums to visit. One such museum is the Tank Museum at Bovington - visiting during tank day is on my bucket list, now that is a proper show!
@@ericboyle8296 A sprinkling of multimedia, the natural successor of printed information panels of yesterday, are of course a useful addition to physical exhibits.... but more and more current day "museums" I visit have the balance completely wrong.
It may be acceptable for younger people who have never experienced how museums used to be, but for older visitors they're a pale shadow of how they used to be.
The Titanic museum I mention above was one of the most egregious examples.... multiple large galleries filled with video screens and huge printed panels of photos that can be seen in many many books on the subject, with precious few physical exhibits.
I wasn't the only one voicing that opinion either.
I have visited Bovington in the early 90s and it was indeed EPIC, and looking at videos of the establishment today it appears to have gone from strength to strength and retained most vehiles on display, but added in the multimedia aspect, So I agree thats it's not all bad news.
The yellow stribe on the stuka was a painting from germans for the eastern front against russia so it came after the war to great britain it was not the painting for the war against britain
Thank you for that.
+@neumannernst3737 The Stuka wears the markings from another aircraft (W.Nr. 494085), which not the aircraft on display. The RAF Stuka was captured from at the factory after conversion to G-2 standard.
The plane may be worth a fortune but not what the plane was designed to fight for...
To me it is a very valuable historical aircraft. I do not do politics.
Y el stuka ampliamente superado en el transcurso de la 2 gm.por los cazas aliados😅
Hoy tenemos el ataque terrestre A10 Warthog y el helicóptero Apache cumpliendo el papel original del Stuka.
The mood of the time is responsible for the extreme lack of German war machines in preservation, and it's understandable. The whole world had been subjected to such horrific treatment by the Nazi regime for 6 years, it's no wonder they had no stomach for retaining artifacts from that era. It actually surprises me that there such enthusiasm now for these objects, although I myself am fascinated and find them very interesting, but then I didn't live through that time. I had relatives that fought in WW2 and some of them would not even buy German made products or tolerate any mention of Germany in conversation. Time is not a great healer for some.
Yes indeed there was so much hatred at the time that is difficult to imagine.
Stuka!!’
You stole my next comment first A10
I think they were very primitive aircraft even in the day they were made , German bombers were so behind the times compared to what was really required for the war.
I know most don’t want to hear it but they should never fly these planes if there that rare. Should be on permanent display as part of the military museum watched over by young military personnel to remember thier past
I agree in this case as they are so rare.
I'd love the see them, where is this place Graham?
RAF Museum at Hendon London.
@@BaronFlyingClub thanks.
German forces in 1945 before surrendering deliberately destroyed all of their equipment (especially tanks, aircraft, and V weapons) to make sure the enemy could not use it or reverse engineer the technology. So anything WW2 German is very rare and expensive.
What I wouldn't do, or length I wouldn't go, just to sit in the cockpit of those historic aircraft for a few minutes.
Me too.
For £25 you can sit in the spitfire cockpit at Hendon.
Theres another Heinkel in Norway that I think they fished out of a lake or something. The wilderness of Russia is a treasure trove of aircraft waiting to be found and restored. A project likely to be delayed for many more years yet.
+@MrContemptable The He-111 pulled of the lake in Norway was in amazing condition and was taken to Germany for one of their museums. I have not seen any pictures of the preservation work. A Ju-88 in similar condition was pulled from the same lake and it is also being carefully preserved and looks amazing.
Is the heinkel the one with bmw badges under the wings? Think it was Cosford I saw that
They have a 110, 262 and Ju88 at Cosford as far as I know.
Strange to think that shot down German aircraft got recycled and probably ended up as Spitfires.
I'm not 100% sure but I think there's only 2 complete Stukas left remaining in the world. This one in London & 1 in the States (California?)
+@GBURGE55 Two complete examples, plus wreckage from several more, plus a new flying restoration, and another flying restoration just getting started using an example pulled from a lake.
@@FiveCentsPlease Thanks, I knew that there were some wrecked stuka's about. Didn't know about any restoration projects 👍
Is the Jericho siren still intact on this Stuka? Thank you for sharing this.
+@FlyinBrian777 No sirens on this model. It left the factory as a Ju-87D and was recycled for rebuild as a Ju-87G. The British captured it new from the rebuild.
@@FiveCentsPlease That's too bad, but I'm not complaining sir I'm glad that somebody is keeping this aircraft preserved. I've always wanted to recreate a Jericho and play with it with compressed air, just to see what they sound like irl . Thank you.
@@FiveCentsPlease PS: I saw it either on Facebook or on the internet but somebody is restoring a Stuka to flying condition. You might know about that already.
@@FlyinBrian777 The Stuka is in final assembly, but paused while new owners take over the entire museum collection. ua-cam.com/video/heo1kldeyZk/v-deo.html (They are working on sirens, but are missing parts to copy them correctly.) Also, a second Stuka project has just been announced for the US.
@@FiveCentsPlease that's great news, thanks again
Dr. Evil offered One Million Dollars.
Not for sale, anyway they are much safer in the museum.
Which museum is this?
Hendon.
Where is this museum please?
RAF Museum Hendon London UK
Great, many thanks.
Where is this museum m8
Hendon London UK
I understand them being scrapped and the material being reused during the war. But to have such iconic machines, machines not saved after the conflict is utter bullshit. doesn't matter which side your country was on after the war, these machines should be preserved as a monument to the young blokes that flew and died in them. And also as a monument to human ingenuity as progress of technology. I also dont mean everything should be saved, but enough so that each new generation has access to what their grandparents etc operated. So much appreciation and knowledge been lost.
Where is this museum
RAF Museum Hendon London UK
Ok its run by a women 😔
I suppose,they’re worth a few quid as two of the planes that lost the war.
Where is it?
London UK.
I was once told its the Only intact Stuka in the world. Not sure how true it is
+@MrPDoff There are two intact original Stukas in world, this one in the UK and one in the US. There is wreckage or partial wreckage of perhaps another six or eight. One project has taken the wreckage of two for parts and constructed a new Stuka airframe which will be the first flying example since WW2. (And overcoming significant technical challenges with rebuilding any Stuka.) A second new Stuka project has just been announced in the US, which is also said to be a flying restoration.
What Museum?
RAF Museum Hendon London UK.
Historical heritage and "fortunes" don't make a good marriage. It's somewhat sacrilegious to drop that word in this context.
It is a FACT. Due to rarity German equipment from this period commands high prices to collectors.