The Tornado was at RAF Honington in Suffolk and RAF Bruggen in Germany and RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland. The Harrier GR3 was at RAF Gutersloh in Germany. Fond memories of all these aircraft as a kid when my dad was in the RAF.
I also toured the RAF/Battle of Britain. My friend Jeff, who was a WWII Lancaster pilot, was explaining some features of the 'Lanc and he was openly getting emotional. He told me later that he was thinking of the crews that never made it home. We need to thank all military personnel, active or retired, living or dead. They deserve our respect. Bob in Ontario, Canada
I have worked on some of the World War 2 Aircraft at DUXFOFD , and for a min of 10 years lived in one of the villages close to it , saw the Battle Of Britain Film from 1969 made there ,and flew the B17 Sally B with the late Don Bullock sat in the co-pilots next to me .I also have a min ownership of 25% of one of the Spits at Duxford .
Back in the 1980s I was a member of the Duxford Aviation Society restoring these aircraft. If you look at the Vickers Viscount 700 I did all the wiring to make the internal lights work, unlike the Brittania that had strip lights screwed to the ceiling. Back in the 1980s, most of these aircraft were outside and were looking a lot more sorry than they do now. But that was 37 years ago. I'm in the USA now, but would love to return and see for myself. Thanks for the video.
Ive been many times, right from my early childhood thanks to an aviation enthusiast father. Back then, a fair number of exhibits were outside, B52 included and thus suffered from exposure to the elements. I think having some of the planes suspended from the ceilings is a small price to pay for knowing they'll be preserved far better. I love the USAF museum building there too.
Duxford "The Imperial War Museum" is a fantastic place that I last went to years ago went all the time here to see Flying Legends. I'd love to go back here more regularly great video Paul
I lived in Cambridge during the 1990's. I cycled to the Duxford airfield ever so often. Nice to see it once again in your video. The airshows were fantastic. 1995, when celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of WW2, even a Concorde was flying over.
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The lightning jets were at RAF Binbrook in the mid 1970's where my dad was stationed. It is one of only 2 aircraft that I saw take off and go vertical almost straight away. The other was the F-16.
Great video - thanks. As a helicopter fan I have to give a shoutout to the Lynx that was alongside the Typhoon. A truely amazing helicopter that had fantastic capabilities.
Just got to the end! Very true what you said about the young men flying over those beautiful views of southern britain during the war. Thought provoking.
Wonderful exploration Paul. I went there with my father when we lived in the UK - what a great museum. On your comment about modern hypersonic missiles. They are different by not being ballistic missiles - they go up - then can turn horizontal and fly fast - and with varying trajectory making them much harder to predict than ballistic missiles. So in that sense they are new - and quite difficult (but clearly not impossible - as we have seen in Ukraine) to shoot down.
Just awesome thanks. I’ve driven past Duxford countless times in my earlier years. Even did a flyby in a chipmunk when I was 14 and in the Air Training Corps About ten feet off the ground above the grass. Good memories
The vulcan probes used to leak on tests before the Falklands war, but it did get fixed. Some probes were bent during ground trials due to the weight of the fuel hose connected to the bowser, a load it was never designed for. Some were missing shims too. It used to spray the canopy on withdrawal and could cause flame-outs. The museum probes helped replace the damaged and incomplete ones as well as the ones that were grouted up in service.
If you ever have a chance, come to Kelowna Canada, they have one of only a few flying Mosquitoes and it's regularly on display at their museum. My grandfather served in this aircraft and I was lucky enough to have the museum in Kelowna let me sit in the pilots seat.
Love Duxford, it and Hendon are like my 2nd home. I recently sat in the cockpits of Spitfire MkI N3200 & Hurricane MkXII BE505.. at Duxford. Brilliant experience 😊
I toured it today and got to see several WWII aircraft departing for the Legends of Flight show later this week. On the way back to Bedford, we stopped by the Shuttleworth museum. Though they don't have as many warbirds, they do have a very impressive collection. Unfortunately, they were about to close, so we'll stop in and see it next time we're in the area.
Hi, guess you mean $Aus. It's just over £26 sterling and as you suggest worth every penny. I was at an air show there once where they put up just about every flight worthy Spitfire in existence. Fabulous. Land warfare hall is also very well presented. My favourite display though is of course the SR71. I've seen one fly at an old Mildenhall air show and got up close and personal to it - well, as close as the armed guards would let me! Best wishes.
There is a story about the Swordfish attack that the Bismark's AA fire control tables (aka 'computers') had not been designed to cope with anything flying so slowly ...... I've no idea if that is true though.
Thank you very much sir, for this great tour. I had the privilege to visit the museum many years ago, and your video brings back memories cherished since...
Great video Paul, just to clarify the aircraft in Airspace can also be viewed from the balcony. This gives you a direct line of sight view to those aircraft suspended from the ceiling. The Mosquito, for example, looks great from that vantage point.
Duxford is the most amazing place - one of my favourites. The airshows are incredible too but its better to devote a separate day to the museum as there is such a lot to absorb 😉
We have a Hawker Hunter in the Danish Airforce Museum and I have always found it extremely well designed, with its soft lines! For some years we used Swedish Draken and then F16, which is a kind of a Sportscar, to my knowledge? Now we are waiting for new F35, making much more noise for its surroundings to endure.
My mother was a former Ansett career staff member at the Swanston st Building in Melbourne. Where SIR REGINALD ANSETT flew from his Mount Eliza Home to the Building daily. Unfortunately his allowance of TNT to take control was the Death of a sadly forgotten Airline where people only remember Qantas 😢 Great video! But I love our motherland and consider myself a Australian Citizen British Subject and don't understand why Qantas removed the Empire wording from it's name because the move from the British? We are still a constitutional monarchy and use British English everything
Again thanks Paul. As I mentioned I last visited Duxford the late ‘80s and its great to see how things have changed. Oh and one thing I must say is that the Lancaster is a B.X version, built by Victory Aircraft in Toronto, Ontario, Canada just a few kilometres from there I am writing this now. Hess’ Bf 110 was on display then too (but over in a corner where I sorta touched it) and I even made a 1/72 model of this. I can’t seem to add this to the comment but if you are interested I’ll send to you. Outside some may see a “gap” between the hangars, and this was another hangar blown up for the movie “Battle of Britain”, which was partially filmed there. So looking forward to Part 2….
saturnCanuck And of note the canadian built Lancaster Mk B X used the Made in USA Packard Merlin engines, as did all the Mk BIII, which powered about 1/2 of all Lancasters built !!! Packard delivered 37,137 Merlins to the Brits during the war, plus another 18,000 to the USAAF !!!
Just a point of pedantry on an excellent video. The replacement to the Lightning wasn't the Tornado GR1, it was the Tornado F3. Different beast, different rolls.
Nice video Paul have been to Duxford many times and even got to fly on Sally B that was there for many year's.....Those Lightning's were terrifying when they flew over you as was the VC10 and Concorde....lived at the end of Northolt runway and Heathrow for 20 years lol....
Yes, I need to go see this museum. I've been to the Smithsonian air and space......for 3 days! On the way to England need to back to Washington and see the new one. Maybe on the way back I can go to Ohio.
Hi Folks. If you get the chance do come and visit. I'm lucky, I live fairly close (very close if you come from Australia!) and have been several times over the years. The staff are very helpful and there is a cafeteria set in what I think is an old NAFI building. The air shows are pretty impressive as well and the museum runs tours around parts that are normally off limits as well. If going to an airshow arriving on a motorbike is a good tip - not only can you get past the traffic queues you get VIP equivalent supervised parking on hard standing right up by the main entrance for no extra cost. Paul understandably did not cover the Land Warfare Hall in detail but it is well worth a visit - there are some excellent WW1 and D-day based displays. I'll comment more on part 2 - it will feature a SR 71 as well as B52 ..... plan on spending most of a day - as Paul says it is big site, home to a WW2 RAF station.
Wow Paul! 🤩 I loved the video especially the length! Also someday I’d love to visit Imperial War Museum Duxford someday! Just like my video of all the different jets at the Pima Air & Space Museum video! Although I do intend to visit Pima and other museums again someday and make more detailed tours around the different jets! 😊
Great video, Paul. I've always had a bit of a crush on the Gloster Javelin. May I recommend a visit to the American cemetery at Cambridge next time you're in the area.
A place i have always wanted to go and by the look of it, you can sit in the spitfire and hurricane? My great nan and aunt worked on the spit during the war here in southampton at the supermarine spitfire factory in woolston. I've been to middle wallop airfield a couple of times with my grandad and we were lucky one time as we were having something to eat in the cafe watched a spitfire fly over and another time saw a Apache helicopter take off
Thanks for watching. Don't forget to watch the Part 2 video of the American Air Museum inside Duxford: ua-cam.com/video/_Joz2Vr4lk0/v-deo.html
The Tornado was at RAF Honington in Suffolk and RAF Bruggen in Germany and RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland. The Harrier GR3 was at RAF Gutersloh in Germany. Fond memories of all these aircraft as a kid when my dad was in the RAF.
I also toured the RAF/Battle of Britain. My friend Jeff, who was a WWII Lancaster pilot, was explaining some features of the 'Lanc and he was openly getting emotional. He told me later that he was thinking of the crews that never made it home. We need to thank all military personnel, active or retired, living or dead. They deserve our respect. Bob in Ontario, Canada
I have worked on some of the World War 2 Aircraft at DUXFOFD , and for a min of 10 years lived in one of the villages close to it , saw the Battle Of Britain Film from 1969 made there ,and flew the B17 Sally B with the late Don Bullock sat in the co-pilots next to me .I also have a min ownership of 25% of one of the Spits at Duxford .
Back in the 1980s I was a member of the Duxford Aviation Society restoring these aircraft. If you look at the Vickers Viscount 700 I did all the wiring to make the internal lights work, unlike the Brittania that had strip lights screwed to the ceiling. Back in the 1980s, most of these aircraft were outside and were looking a lot more sorry than they do now. But that was 37 years ago. I'm in the USA now, but would love to return and see for myself. Thanks for the video.
Ive been many times, right from my early childhood thanks to an aviation enthusiast father. Back then, a fair number of exhibits were outside, B52 included and thus suffered from exposure to the elements. I think having some of the planes suspended from the ceilings is a small price to pay for knowing they'll be preserved far better. I love the USAF museum building there too.
Duxford "The Imperial War Museum" is a fantastic place that I last went to years ago went all the time here to see Flying Legends. I'd love to go back here more regularly great video Paul
I lived in Cambridge during the 1990's. I cycled to the Duxford airfield ever so often. Nice to see it once again in your video. The airshows were fantastic. 1995, when celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of WW2, even a Concorde was flying over.
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Why not use a gimbal?
It's without a doubt the most aircraft-packed aerial museum I've ever seen. Find a way and go see it.
The lightning jets were at RAF Binbrook in the mid 1970's where my dad was stationed. It is one of only 2 aircraft that I saw take off and go vertical almost straight away. The other was the F-16.
There was a Victor at RAF Machrihanish in Scotland that the fire service used to practice on. On one side of it someone had painted "Jim'll fix it"
Very nice to see it all Paul. Thank you for the content and the work you put into it. I Salute you 💞✌️
Great video - thanks. As a helicopter fan I have to give a shoutout to the Lynx that was alongside the Typhoon. A truely amazing helicopter that had fantastic capabilities.
Excelente vídio, saludos dsd San Luis, Argentina. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Thank you!
Another very interesting video Paul! It appears to be a very interesting collection of aircraft!
Indeed!
Thanx , I’m happy w/ the tour, enjoyed learning about aircraft …
Excellent video. I’m going to visit soon and found this very helpful
Enjoy!
Excellent, thank you. I now live only a few miles from Duxford, so must get round to a visit. LOL.
A beautifully put together summary! I flew there in my aircraft last week! It’s a great place to visit with so much to see 👍🏼
Just got to the end! Very true what you said about the young men flying over those beautiful views of southern britain during the war. Thought provoking.
This is an absolute treat Paul. Fantastic video.
Thanks Paul, very informative and good detail. There was allot of eye candy in there but that yellow Mosquito ......... *drools.
Cheers
Glad you enjoyed it
I toured Duxford with Jeff Sturt, who was a WWII Lancaster pilot. This was many years ago but the great memories remain.
Duxford is incredible arrive at opening and you can just about see it all by closing, Wonderful Place 👍
Thanks Paul for another wonderful video cheers Bob.🦘👍👍👍👍💯
Wonderful video, thank you very much, great to see these old planes and the history.
Glad you enjoyed it
I am gobsmacked. Sensational work Paul.
Was there last month, also visiting from Australia. Was great to see it again so extensively!
I finally got to visit Duxford last year on the way back from Legoland. Awesome museum. Great video too!
The museum in Pembroke Dock Wales devoted to the Sunderland recently had a visitor from 10 Squadron based near Adelaide.
Fantastic video. I've been lucky enough to visit Duxford, and it's a great day, or two days, out.
Duxford is a world class museum.
Such a wonderful museum and some can FLY !
Wonderful exploration Paul. I went there with my father when we lived in the UK - what a great museum. On your comment about modern hypersonic missiles. They are different by not being ballistic missiles - they go up - then can turn horizontal and fly fast - and with varying trajectory making them much harder to predict than ballistic missiles. So in that sense they are new - and quite difficult (but clearly not impossible - as we have seen in Ukraine) to shoot down.
Just awesome thanks. I’ve driven past Duxford countless times in my earlier years. Even did a flyby in a chipmunk when I was 14 and in the Air Training Corps About ten feet off the ground above the grass. Good memories
my grandad used to work for de havilland in hatfield and actally helped build that de havilland comet 4
Beautiful informative upload per usual thank you so much from Milwaukee Wisconsin USA home of Harley Davidson Motorcycles
There last weekend great fun! 👌
Love Duxford❤
The vulcan probes used to leak on tests before the Falklands war, but it did get fixed. Some probes were bent during ground trials due to the weight of the fuel hose connected to the bowser, a load it was never designed for. Some were missing shims too. It used to spray the canopy on withdrawal and could cause flame-outs. The museum probes helped replace the damaged and incomplete ones as well as the ones that were grouted up in service.
It's a very beautiful museum. I went there in 2011. Thank you.
If you ever have a chance, come to Kelowna Canada, they have one of only a few flying Mosquitoes and it's regularly on display at their museum. My grandfather served in this aircraft and I was lucky enough to have the museum in Kelowna let me sit in the pilots seat.
If ever you're in Kelowna let me know, my dad volunteers at the museum.
Love Duxford, it and Hendon are like my 2nd home. I recently sat in the cockpits of Spitfire MkI N3200 & Hurricane MkXII BE505.. at Duxford. Brilliant experience 😊
Good show sir. Loved the museum. Used to see the tornados fly when i was stationed in germany. Cant wait to see the american museum. Teo thumbs up!!
In England, everywhere is a short drive from London 😂
I toured it today and got to see several WWII aircraft departing for the Legends of Flight show later this week. On the way back to Bedford, we stopped by the Shuttleworth museum. Though they don't have as many warbirds, they do have a very impressive collection. Unfortunately, they were about to close, so we'll stop in and see it next time we're in the area.
Thanks for a very informative video. I'm Australian visiting Uk now and I will going to Duxford in a few weeks time myself.👍
Paul as always a great informative vlog
Glad you think so!
Went there last year. My fitness watch recorded that I’d walked over 5 miles!
Wow, I am literally going to watch every one of these.❤
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Paul for this huge video.
You did a great job.
😊👍
One of the finest military museums in the world, and I've been to a lot.
Getting pricy at nearly $50 Aud now though!
Hi, guess you mean $Aus. It's just over £26 sterling and as you suggest worth every penny. I was at an air show there once where they put up just about every flight worthy Spitfire in existence. Fabulous. Land warfare hall is also very well presented. My favourite display though is of course the SR71. I've seen one fly at an old Mildenhall air show and got up close and personal to it - well, as close as the armed guards would let me! Best wishes.
There is a story about the Swordfish attack that the Bismark's AA fire control tables (aka 'computers') had not been designed to cope with anything flying so slowly ...... I've no idea if that is true though.
Great Video. Many Thanks.
Amazing video,thank you. If only I could get there
Glad you enjoyed it! It's well worth the trip if you can :)
Brilliant Aviation Channel Paul.
Thank you :)
One of my special places 😊 just love it. Huge thanks Paul 👍
Also good to go around the the hangar where restoration work is taking place.
Thank you. Your video was brilliant. My uncle flew spits so I found you video fascinating. Safe travels.
Has it changed much for yourself since the last one.i love it here
The main difference for me was that the air and sea section wasnt as organised this time :(
Loved the video Paul I have not been to Duxford for some years now I must return hope you are well
Thank you very much sir, for this great tour. I had the privilege to visit the museum many years ago, and your video brings back memories cherished since...
Great video Paul, just to clarify the aircraft in Airspace can also be viewed from the balcony. This gives you a direct line of sight view to those aircraft suspended from the ceiling. The Mosquito, for example, looks great from that vantage point.
This is a great tour. We’ve been many times and it’s a surreal place.
The Swordfish did a good job at Taranto too.
This is awesome!!! Thank you for the tour, Paul!!
Duxford is the most amazing place - one of my favourites. The airshows are incredible too but its better to devote a separate day to the museum as there is such a lot to absorb 😉
Totally agree!
We have a Hawker Hunter in the Danish Airforce Museum and I have always found it extremely well designed, with its soft lines! For some years we used Swedish Draken and then F16, which is a kind of a Sportscar, to my knowledge? Now we are waiting for new F35, making much more noise for its surroundings to endure.
I can HEAR those Darts screaming on the Viscount! Lol
Thank you for the tour. You should come to visit USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
I have :) many videos already uploaded :)
@@PaulStewartAviation Great! I am fortunate to live close enough to visit in person, but l’ll enjoy your perspective.
Another great video, thanks Paul - hope to see you in Duxford again soon
My mother was a former Ansett career staff member at the Swanston st Building in Melbourne. Where SIR REGINALD ANSETT flew from his Mount Eliza Home to the Building daily. Unfortunately his allowance of TNT to take control was the Death of a sadly forgotten Airline where people only remember Qantas 😢
Great video!
But I love our motherland and consider myself a Australian Citizen British Subject and don't understand why Qantas removed the Empire wording from it's name because the move from the British? We are still a constitutional monarchy and use British English everything
Duxford and Cosford are the best 😊😊
Bloody brilliant mate, and it’s great to hear an Aussie voice. Keep it up.
Excellent!
It’s so nice to see a factual, educational clip AND it’s spoken in Aussie!😂😂🇦🇺 thanks mate, love your vids.
Been there for the flying legends airshow many many times. Brilliant place and staff is very nice :)
Again thanks Paul. As I mentioned I last visited Duxford the late ‘80s and its great to see how things have changed. Oh and one thing I must say is that the Lancaster is a B.X version, built by Victory Aircraft in Toronto, Ontario, Canada just a few kilometres from there I am writing this now. Hess’ Bf 110 was on display then too (but over in a corner where I sorta touched it) and I even made a 1/72 model of this. I can’t seem to add this to the comment but if you are interested I’ll send to you. Outside some may see a “gap” between the hangars, and this was another hangar blown up for the movie “Battle of Britain”, which was partially filmed there. So looking forward to Part 2….
saturnCanuck And of note the canadian built Lancaster Mk B X used the Made in USA Packard Merlin engines, as did all the Mk BIII, which powered about 1/2 of all Lancasters built !!! Packard delivered 37,137 Merlins to the Brits during the war, plus another 18,000 to the USAAF !!!
@wilburfinnigan2142 Yes. True. And as I have said before the Packard Merlin was, in many ways, the better of the two.
I’m going here next Sunday for a airshow and I’m so excited
Enjoy!
Just a point of pedantry on an excellent video. The replacement to the Lightning wasn't the Tornado GR1, it was the Tornado F3. Different beast, different rolls.
Nice video Paul have been to Duxford many times and even got to fly on Sally B that was there for many year's.....Those Lightning's were terrifying when they flew over you as was the VC10 and Concorde....lived at the end of Northolt runway and Heathrow for 20 years lol....
Yes, I need to go see this museum. I've been to the Smithsonian air and space......for 3 days! On the way to England need to back to Washington and see the new one. Maybe on the way back I can go to Ohio.
Thanks Paul brill video keep up the good work Bear Hull
Thanks, will do!
The victor looks amazing
I went there once. The Comet was why I went. It’s great here.
Great video. Best advert for Duxford ever
Hi Folks. If you get the chance do come and visit. I'm lucky, I live fairly close (very close if you come from Australia!) and have been several times over the years. The staff are very helpful and there is a cafeteria set in what I think is an old NAFI building. The air shows are pretty impressive as well and the museum runs tours around parts that are normally off limits as well. If going to an airshow arriving on a motorbike is a good tip - not only can you get past the traffic queues you get VIP equivalent supervised parking on hard standing right up by the main entrance for no extra cost. Paul understandably did not cover the Land Warfare Hall in detail but it is well worth a visit - there are some excellent WW1 and D-day based displays. I'll comment more on part 2 - it will feature a SR 71 as well as B52 ..... plan on spending most of a day - as Paul says it is big site, home to a WW2 RAF station.
Thanks!
Thanks :)
Awesome vid mate, thanks for that..... hopping on to War thunder now to take them for a spin.
Wow Paul! 🤩 I loved the video especially the length! Also someday I’d love to visit Imperial War Museum Duxford someday! Just like my video of all the different jets at the Pima Air & Space Museum video! Although I do intend to visit Pima and other museums again someday and make more detailed tours around the different jets! 😊
Great tour! After seeing this I definitely need to add Duxford to my list! It would be great to see the TSR-2 in the flesh!
Very informative video, I have been to that museum myself and its absolutely amazing. But why did you not mention any of the helicopters?
Great video and informative review. Thank you. 👏👏👏👏
Great video, Paul.
I've always had a bit of a crush on the Gloster Javelin.
May I recommend a visit to the American cemetery at Cambridge next time you're in the area.
A place i have always wanted to go and by the look of it, you can sit in the spitfire and hurricane? My great nan and aunt worked on the spit during the war here in southampton at the supermarine spitfire factory in woolston. I've been to middle wallop airfield a couple of times with my grandad and we were lucky one time as we were having something to eat in the cafe watched a spitfire fly over and another time saw a Apache helicopter take off
Hi Paul, brilliant commentary.
I never realised that some 'Stringbags' (Fairy Swordfish) were equipped with radar!
Superb array of aircraft. I appreciate why they don't allow it but I always just want to take a seat in the cockpits.
Great job Paul 👍🏼