Five Days in London, day one

Our trip to London became somewhat drowned in the volcanic ash from Eyafjellajökul but before the trouble started we managed to have a lot of fun in london. The first day we went to see the RAF museum at Hendon

Spitfire at the entrance

B17G

Me Bf109G

Nose art o a Handley Page Victor, please observe the text "Axe stored here". That is not really what you expect to see on a jet bomber used to carry nuclear bombs :)

We had a lunch break and a bottle of Spitfire ale. "The bottle of Britain" :)

Lancaster

The infamous quote of Herman Göring slightly modified and translated to English and painted on the Lancaster above.

The original quote goes like this: "Ich will nicht Hermann Göring, sondern Hermann Meyer heißen, wenn jemals ein feindliches Flugzeug die deutschen Reichsgrenzen überfliegen würde."

Typhoon

The very complicated powersource of the abovementioned Typhoon, the Napier Sabre 24 cyl. H-configuration

Sunderland, oh my, this was BIG!

German V2 rocket

These are only a few of my photos from the RAF museum in Hendon. We spent the whole day from 11 am to 5 pm  and we did not go and look at every subject there. 

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/

Of course I had to buy a souvernir and what could be better than some good old wartime Big-Band music:

What's so special about the Squadronaires? :)

What are these brand new suitcases doing...

...in our living room?
Well, we are going to London, UK, later this spring. We had some vague plans to go around my birthday in October last year but London late in October is not such great fun.
Any ideas of places to go and stuff to see? Maybe drop by at Rachels and Petes place...? :)
One thing is sure though, RAF Museum, Hendon, here I come!