I visited there last November and it was fantastic. The Vulcan was very impressive, i new it was a big aircraft but seeing it up close gave me a new idea of how big it was. My son and i spent many hours walking around and admiring the aircraft. It was a really cold winters day. We had coffee in the canteen to get some warmth. Charlie Cape Town south Africa. 😊
Greetings from England! Sounds like it was a very different time of year compared to when I filmed this then as it was over 30C 😄 The Vulcan is big, but if there was a Boeing B 52 here as America's equivalent bomber, it would absolutely dwarf it!
I visit this museum in 1979. At this time, the Sunderland was outside in front of the main entrance. Nice to see this musem 45 years later. I will see your others videos.
I was fortunate to visit the museum in 2017. When l got back to our hotel in the West End, l reported that I'd seen 28 types of aircraft that I'd never seen before. My daughter said, "I didn't know there were 28 types you hadn't seen before!" I especially enjoyed the Great War exhibits. GREAT MUSEUM!!! I'm hoping to get back next time we're in the UK.
@@traveldan1 No but I'd love to get to Duxford. While I'm at it, there's a Halifax in a museum in Yorkshire I'd like to see. A dear friend of mine who recently passed away at 100 was a Halifax navigator in WW ll.
@@gordonbergslien30 I've been to that museum and seen the Halifax, but I wasn't filming to make these videos at the time unfortunately! It would make a good pilgrimage for you then by getting there and seeing the aircraft!
@@traveldan1 We are planning another trip to the UK in 2026. Hopefully, I will get to Yorkshire and Cosford. Btw, I love the UK. It's like being in Europe but everyone speaks English--except for the cabbie in Edinbourgh. I couldn't understand a word he said.
@@gordonbergslien30 Hope you enjoy it! Yes, the Scottish people are difficult to understand, but there's places I could go to in England where I'd have the same problem of trying to figure out what they were on about!
As a young lad my Dad took me a six of my pals to Hendon for my birthday in the late seventies. As we were going to the cafe for lunch a low loader was parked up with a dismantled aircraft on it. I recognised it immediateley as I had one hanging from my bedroom ceiling as part of my model collection. An Me110 I even got close enough to turn the rear tail wheel. Happy days!. Nuff said.
Hendon was still an official R.A.F. station up until the nineties, it was used as a transit camp for those travelling back to R.A.F. Germany via Luton airport, I stayed there several times whilst based in Germany in the mid eighties and took the opportunity to visit the museum whilst in-transit.
I went through there too, late 70s/ early 80s. Wasnt it used if you had an early morning flight, from Luton ? I also transited through Brieze, Lynham and South Cerney! lol
@@traveldan1 It wasn’t front line by any stretch of the imagination but was still classed as operational as it was still manned by R.A.F. personnel, the operational part of the station was on the opposite side of the main road from the museum and consisted mainly of overnight accommodation for personnel travelling through.
Luton you say that's My where I was born the home place of the Churchill tank and Bedford trucks (before production was moved to Dunstable) And the first ever school trip i went on was to hendon.
I lived in London between 1990-94, loved the RAF Museum. Went there many times. I think what you described as Hanger 1 was the Battle of Britain Hall. Had the Spitfire Mk I PR-F, Hurricane Mk I, Stuka, Heinkel He-111, Junkers Ju-88C, Defiant, CR 43, Bf 109, 110 and Sunderland.
I worked on this building when it was just a carcass, no doors or windows through 2 very cold winters 1969 & 70. The first aircraft arrived 1971 while I was commissioning the security system and asked the flight sergeant if I could have a look inside, kindly he agreed, consequently my employers didnt get much work out of me for the next three days as I sat in the beaghfighter. Bliss. The first static was a Beverly in desert colours that I think was flown in. Over the course of that summer the runways rapidly disappeared. The Beverly was replaced by two RAF rescue launches and remained in place until the replica spitfire and hurricane arrived. Originally just one building , the one with the collonade windows was all there was. That building was extended to the adjoining one via very large hangar doors that is were the Lancaster now stands. The other building were added much later. I still visit occasionally to see the beaghfighter. A very nice place
Got a chance to see this museum back when I visited the UK in 2019. It is one of the best Air Museums I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot in my 55 years. I especially liked the older hanger displaying the WW1 aircraft, you really feel like you stepped back in time. I remember they still have the original Crapper toilets' in the men's bathroom with the water reservoir high up and a pull chain to flush!
It's changed quite a bit over the years and a few exhibits have moved over to Cosford, but they do keep the aircraft immaculate unlike some aviation museums with less resources!
I had the pleasure of visiting last year! I must revisit, One of my personal favorite Heroes got his start flying here, Major Lanoe Hawker,, great content ❤️❤️❤️
Thanx a lot for the amazing video. Visited the museum more than twenty years ago, and boy, was I impressed. Like a kid in a candy store. So much to see. Among the most interesting aircraft to me were the Short Sunderland, Avro Vulcan (so big), JU 87 Stuka and the English Electric Lightning. Well worth a visit, to say the least. Kudos!
@@traveldan1 So glad to see that you have made a lot of interesting videos from your journeys. Excellent productions, I will watch them all. Keep up the good work!
@@handmademusicsweden there will certainly be a lot more to come as the country flags at the top are all ones that I have film from, I'm just working through making the videos! 😄 Also have Switzerland and Austria planned for later in the year!
I was based there for a few years. It was prinicpally a logistics control centre for the whole of the RAF. It looks like its been partially destroyed. The sunderland was in another hangar and was covered in bird poo for years.
It is on my future travel plans and looks great from what I've seen! Hopefully there will be a couple Swiss and Austrian aviation museums added soon from my next upcoming trip 😎
'-built in the 1970s'. The main building is actually two hangars from the early days of flight (those cross-hatched wooden beams holding up the roof can be found in surviving hangars from then, there are similar ones at Duxford). The joining piece between (orginally the 'Sir Sydney Camm Hall'), and a frontage containing displays of RAF equipment and stuff, which was indeed, built in the 1970s.
The French word that means 'a wooden adjunct building to a large house, usually used to store coaches or farming equipment' is spelt a couple of ways, including 'Hangeir', but the British word has changed by now, unlike the French words used to identify the parts of an aeroplane, such as fuselage, aileron, empennage, etc.
The Fleet Air Arm has its own museum at Yeovilton. I've been a docent at two major air museums in Southern California for almost 30 years so I look at museums a little differently than the average tourist. The RAF Museum is, hands down, one of the best in the world! Looking forward to visiting again someday. Best regards to my museum colleagues in the UK! Keep up the good work!
The FAA museum is excellent, it’s got a lot more than just FAA exhibits it’s got a prototype Concorde, and other experimental planes including one flow by Neil Armstrong.
A third aircraft museum worth visiting is the one at RAF Cosford (Albrighton railway station is yards from it). A number of RAF types, a Liberator, unique research aircraft from the 1950s and 1960s, and two unique surviving Japanese WWII planes. Unless they've been swapped with Hendon, best do some research. Duxford museum is also pretty impressive, especially if you like planes AND tanks.
@@stevetheduck1425 I was able to visit Cosford in 2020 and the collection there is amazing as well, though I didn't really get enough film to put together a video on it. One day I'll return!
There are some Royal Navy aircraft but I don't think they are organised into their own separate hangar here. There is one at Duxford and the Yeovilton museum though!
Its not called Hendon any more but London -to be more informative about exactly where it is, somwhere in London. Likewise Cosford is now known as Midlands even though there is a Midland air museum in Coventry 40 miles away!! The names Hendon and Cosford accurately locate these sister museums, why waste all that money on a name change?
London does have a reputation for some gang violence, but it's usually in rough residential estates where tourists wouldn't go anyway. The centre around the river Thames where all the main attractions are would be fine ☺
Thanks for the comment! I always try to make sure the film I use is clear in its movement, though all of it is recorded on nothing other than my phone! Not sure if I would trust myself with any expensive equipment 😄
I visited there last November and it was fantastic. The Vulcan was very impressive, i new it was a big aircraft but seeing it up close gave me a new idea of how big it was. My son and i spent many hours walking around and admiring the aircraft. It was a really cold winters day. We had coffee in the canteen to get some warmth. Charlie Cape Town south Africa. 😊
Greetings from England! Sounds like it was a very different time of year compared to when I filmed this then as it was over 30C 😄 The Vulcan is big, but if there was a Boeing B 52 here as America's equivalent bomber, it would absolutely dwarf it!
@traveldan1 Yes, the B52 is absolutely huge, but nowhere near as stunning and beautiful as the Vulcan! 👍😊
@@JamesBaker-n5x well, they did call the B 52 the Big Ugly Fat Fella! 😂
I visit this museum in 1979. At this time, the Sunderland was outside in front of the main entrance. Nice to see this musem 45 years later. I will see your others videos.
Thanks, I have plenty of aviation museum videos up on my channel 😁 I bet the Sunderland would not have kept so clean had it been outside for 45 years!
I was fortunate to visit the museum in 2017. When l got back to our hotel in the West End, l reported that I'd seen 28 types of aircraft that I'd never seen before. My daughter said, "I didn't know there were 28 types you hadn't seen before!" I especially enjoyed the Great War exhibits. GREAT MUSEUM!!! I'm hoping to get back next time we're in the UK.
There certainly are a lot of very interesting aircraft on show at Hendon! Have you visited some of the other aviation museums in England?
@@traveldan1 No but I'd love to get to Duxford. While I'm at it, there's a Halifax in a museum in Yorkshire I'd like to see. A dear friend of mine who recently passed away at 100 was a Halifax navigator in WW ll.
@@gordonbergslien30 I've been to that museum and seen the Halifax, but I wasn't filming to make these videos at the time unfortunately! It would make a good pilgrimage for you then by getting there and seeing the aircraft!
@@traveldan1 We are planning another trip to the UK in 2026. Hopefully, I will get to Yorkshire and Cosford. Btw, I love the UK. It's like being in Europe but everyone speaks English--except for the cabbie in Edinbourgh. I couldn't understand a word he said.
@@gordonbergslien30 Hope you enjoy it! Yes, the Scottish people are difficult to understand, but there's places I could go to in England where I'd have the same problem of trying to figure out what they were on about!
As a young lad my Dad took me a six of my pals to Hendon for my birthday in the late seventies. As we were going to the cafe for lunch a low loader was parked up with a dismantled aircraft on it. I recognised it immediateley as I had one hanging from my bedroom ceiling as part of my model collection. An Me110
I even got close enough to turn the rear tail wheel. Happy days!. Nuff said.
Quite something seeing the 1:1 scale version of a model kit in your collection!
Whoever decided to dismantle the Battle of Britain hall needs a kick up the backside, it was superb.
It did look a bit dated when I went there in 2015, but it was a great collection of the RAF, Luftwaffe and an Italian aircraft!
Hendon was still an official R.A.F. station up until the nineties, it was used as a transit camp for those travelling back to R.A.F. Germany via Luton airport, I stayed there several times whilst based in Germany in the mid eighties and took the opportunity to visit the museum whilst in-transit.
I went through there too, late 70s/ early 80s. Wasnt it used if you had an early morning flight, from Luton ?
I also transited through Brieze, Lynham and South Cerney! lol
Thanks for the information! I must have been going by when it ceased use as a front line military base
@@traveldan1 It wasn’t front line by any stretch of the imagination but was still classed as operational as it was still manned by R.A.F. personnel, the operational part of the station was on the opposite side of the main road from the museum and consisted mainly of overnight accommodation for personnel travelling through.
@@mrjockt OK, I was thinking of when 601 and 604 squadron were based there, but that's going back to 1949
Luton you say that's
My where I was born the home place of the Churchill tank and Bedford trucks (before production was moved to Dunstable)
And the first ever school trip i went on was to hendon.
I lived in London between 1990-94, loved the RAF Museum. Went there many times. I think what you described as Hanger 1 was the Battle of Britain Hall. Had the Spitfire Mk I PR-F, Hurricane Mk I, Stuka, Heinkel He-111, Junkers Ju-88C, Defiant, CR 43, Bf 109, 110 and Sunderland.
It was indeed the Battle of Britain Hall, had some really good exhibits in there but a few have moved now
I worked on this building when it was just a carcass, no doors or windows through 2 very cold winters 1969 & 70. The first aircraft arrived 1971 while I was commissioning the security system and asked the flight sergeant if I could have a look inside, kindly he agreed, consequently my employers didnt get much work out of me for the next three days as I sat in the beaghfighter. Bliss. The first static was a Beverly in desert colours that I think was flown in. Over the course of that summer the runways rapidly disappeared. The Beverly was replaced by two RAF rescue launches and remained in place until the replica spitfire and hurricane arrived. Originally just one building , the one with the collonade windows was all there was. That building was extended to the adjoining one via very large hangar doors that is were the Lancaster now stands. The other building were added much later. I still visit occasionally to see the beaghfighter. A very nice place
I guess that the Beaufighter is a favourite of yours? I heard there used to be a Beverley here but did it get scrapped?
Got a chance to see this museum back when I visited the UK in 2019. It is one of the best Air Museums I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot in my 55 years. I especially liked the older hanger displaying the WW1 aircraft, you really feel like you stepped back in time. I remember they still have the original Crapper toilets' in the men's bathroom with the water reservoir high up and a pull chain to flush!
It is always good when they design the interior of the hangars to match the time period that the exhibits are for!
Thanks for this glimpse of the Museum. Totally impressed by the finish and condition of the exhibits, The place is a National gem.
It's changed quite a bit over the years and a few exhibits have moved over to Cosford, but they do keep the aircraft immaculate unlike some aviation museums with less resources!
I had the pleasure of visiting last year! I must revisit, One of my personal favorite Heroes got his start flying here, Major Lanoe Hawker,, great content ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for your comment! Just read up about Lanoe Hawker and his brief service during the First World War
Excellent video. Cheers from Sydney Australia.
A pleasure to make it for people all around the world to enjoy! I'd love to take a look around some of the aviation museums in Australia too!
so close to London City with wonderful aircraft - been there!!
No excuse not to go if you're in the London area! 😄Have you been to many other UK air museums?
Well done, you have an excellent commentary voice. Thanks for showing us these beautiful aircraft- cheers from Sydney
Thanks very much, one of my friends always comments that my Norfolk accent pops out when I speak!
Lovely video I'm going there Tomorrow so this was nice thanks
Enjoy the museum, and hope this video wasn't too much of a spoiler as to what you'll see there! 😄
Thanx a lot for the amazing video. Visited the museum more than twenty years ago, and boy, was I impressed. Like a kid in a candy store. So much to see. Among the most interesting aircraft to me were the Short Sunderland, Avro Vulcan (so big), JU 87 Stuka and the English Electric Lightning. Well worth a visit, to say the least. Kudos!
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for leaving a comment! It sure is a great collection to visit!
@@traveldan1 So glad to see that you have made a lot of interesting videos from your journeys. Excellent productions, I will watch them all. Keep up the good work!
@@handmademusicsweden there will certainly be a lot more to come as the country flags at the top are all ones that I have film from, I'm just working through making the videos! 😄 Also have Switzerland and Austria planned for later in the year!
I was based there for a few years. It was prinicpally a logistics control centre for the whole of the RAF. It looks like its been partially destroyed. The sunderland was in another hangar and was covered in bird poo for years.
That's one of the disadvantages of having the aircraft outside, the birds will make no exceptions for where they go!
Do a video about the Speyer,GR Technik Museum,one of the best and largest in Europe!
It is on my future travel plans and looks great from what I've seen! Hopefully there will be a couple Swiss and Austrian aviation museums added soon from my next upcoming trip 😎
Duxford is amazing too
There's a video on my channel of Duxford's aviation museum too if you haven't already seen it 😁
'-built in the 1970s'. The main building is actually two hangars from the early days of flight (those cross-hatched wooden beams holding up the roof can be found in surviving hangars from then, there are similar ones at Duxford).
The joining piece between (orginally the 'Sir Sydney Camm Hall'), and a frontage containing displays of RAF equipment and stuff, which was indeed, built in the 1970s.
I always thought that hangar had a bit of a 1970's architectural style to it but I must have thought it was just because of when the museum opened
Great museum,just get the impression that the developers are ready to move in and build flats on it.
The high rise buildings were definitely looming overhead more this time than my previous visit six years beforehand!
The Stranraer is unique only one left in the World.
I like the àir mean
Bro i went there a week ago its amazing
Not as good as the Bovington tank museum though
Ah, well tanks and planes are two entirely different kettle of fish 😄 Bovington is great as well, I was able to explore that back in 2021
It is HangAr not Hanger. Lots of
other mistakes too.
The French word that means 'a wooden adjunct building to a large house, usually used to store coaches or farming equipment' is spelt a couple of ways, including 'Hangeir', but the British word has changed by now, unlike the French words used to identify the parts of an aeroplane, such as fuselage, aileron, empennage, etc.
I'll admit I didn't even notice that spelling mistake 😄 Constructive criticism is always useful so what else did I get incorrect?
Were you aware that the 100-mission Lancaster was said to be haunted?
I wasn't, no. Is it a crew-member that haunts the plane?
Have you visited I.W.M Duxford
I have indeed 😁 There's a video from Duxford on my channel as part of my Aviation Museum series
07:02 Why "infamous" StuKa Ju 87 ?
Anyone who encountered the Stuka would have thought of it as infamous, so I was going by that! 😄I think it is a great looking plane personally
@@traveldan1 And the narrator encountered the StuKa during WW2 ?
@@kal.50bmg32 I've seen films where they are depicted, would be pretty scary having that screaming down at you!
@@traveldan1 The intention was to panic the enemy with these sirens. Why not?
@@kal.50bmg32 would have been the last thing you would want to hear if you were an Allied soldier on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940!
Where's the Royal Navy Aviation Hangar?
The Fleet Air Arm has its own museum at Yeovilton. I've been a docent at two major air museums in Southern California for almost 30 years so I look at museums a little differently than the average tourist. The RAF Museum is, hands down, one of the best in the world! Looking forward to visiting again someday. Best regards to my museum colleagues in the UK! Keep up the good work!
The FAA museum is excellent, it’s got a lot more than just FAA exhibits it’s got a prototype Concorde, and other experimental planes including one flow by Neil Armstrong.
A third aircraft museum worth visiting is the one at RAF Cosford (Albrighton railway station is yards from it).
A number of RAF types, a Liberator, unique research aircraft from the 1950s and 1960s, and two unique surviving Japanese WWII planes.
Unless they've been swapped with Hendon, best do some research.
Duxford museum is also pretty impressive, especially if you like planes AND tanks.
@@stevetheduck1425 I was able to visit Cosford in 2020 and the collection there is amazing as well, though I didn't really get enough film to put together a video on it. One day I'll return!
There are some Royal Navy aircraft but I don't think they are organised into their own separate hangar here. There is one at Duxford and the Yeovilton museum though!
Hangar - not hanger
I have learnt the error in my spelling there, thanks! 😄
Its not called Hendon any more but London -to be more informative about exactly where it is, somwhere in London.
Likewise Cosford is now known as Midlands even though there is a Midland air museum in Coventry 40 miles away!! The names Hendon and Cosford accurately locate these sister museums, why waste all that money on a name change?
To find this museum, go to the Underground station called Colindale, go out the front door, walk left on that road.
To find RAF Cosford and it's museum, go to the railway station named 'Albrighton'.
Not sure if i want to go to London, from what ive heard its a dangerous city !
London does have a reputation for some gang violence, but it's usually in rough residential estates where tourists wouldn't go anyway. The centre around the river Thames where all the main attractions are would be fine ☺
Why can't the narrator speak properly?
Were you looking for a different language? French? Spanish...? 🤔
@@traveldan1 I dunt reckon he understood yor Norfolk accent boi. I reckon South Norfolk, perhaps Diss area?
@@richardwest217 very close, I'm from Norwich ☺ Found it too tempting to exercise a little bit of British sarcasm in my last comment!
Nice Museum. Your video stutters but showed some planes I had not seen. Thanks
Thanks for the comment! I always try to make sure the film I use is clear in its movement, though all of it is recorded on nothing other than my phone! Not sure if I would trust myself with any expensive equipment 😄