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Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:47 am
by TSC.
Just a few from my trip to London last weekend. We popped into the RAF Museum at Hendon, then went down to the Imperial War Museum

Mustang:
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Messerschmitt Me262:
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Sopwith Camel:
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'Monty's Tank' - used in the North African campaign:
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Your bog standard 'dog on a parachute':
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Oh - & those big guns I was talking about:
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The gun on the left was mounted on HMS Ramillies between 1916 - 1941 & the gun on the right was mounted on HMS Resolution between 1915 - 1938.

Cheers,

TSC.

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:00 am
by Woodlouse2002
The gun on the left was mounted on HMS Ramillies between 1916 - 1941 & the gun on the right was mounted on HMS Resolution between 1915 - 1938

15" and 16" respectively if my memory serves correctly. Beauties. :D

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:06 am
by C
Shame too see the two recently airwrthy aircraft in shot one in a museum where the runways were dug up in 1969...

Nice shots. Until I went back to the IWM for the first time in years a couple of years back, those guns were the most vivid memory.

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:22 am
by ATI_7500
You forgot the good stuff.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o183 ... ild059.jpg

Fw-190, V2/A4 and the Jagdtiger.

I tried to steal the tank from the museum but they searched my pocket at the exit.  ;D

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:24 am
by Woodlouse2002
[quote]You forgot the good stuff.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o183 ... ild059.jpg

Fw-190, V2/A4 and the Jagdtiger.

I tried to steal the tank from the museum but they searched my pocket at the exit.

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:55 am
by beaky
Canine paratroopers... that's a new one on me!  :D

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:10 am
by murjax
Those are really big guns.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:11 pm
by Souichiro
ehmm... I kinda forgot... but I still have loadsa Hendon pics from last Holiday if anyone is interested? :D

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:16 pm
by TSC.
ehmm... I kinda forgot... but I still have loadsa Hendon pics from last Holiday if anyone is interested? :D

Stick 'em up Soui - I'd love to see them.

:)

TSC.

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:42 pm
by C
ehmm... I kinda forgot... but I still have loadsa Hendon pics from last Holiday if anyone is interested? :D


Oh yes... :)

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:28 pm
by ATI_7500
I doubt you want that tank. It's got three rather smart holes in it's starboard side left behind by the chap who knocked it out with a Bazooka.


You're right. Might be better off with a new one.

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:44 pm
by concordepilot
We went to the imperial war museum on a school trip I was so tempted to jump for the ledge an onto the Mig and get in the cockpit and start her up.

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:45 pm
by Mictheslik
We went to the imperial war museum on a school trip I was so tempted to jump for the ledge an onto the Mig and get in the cockpit and start her up.



Theres a mig at the IWM?

.mic

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:48 pm
by Anark
Maybe he's thinking of Duxford...

Re: Breaking out the big guns..

PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:14 am
by Isak922
Mmmmm... Me-262  8-)


Looks fun. I gotta get to some of the museums around CT sometime  :-[