Royal Air Force Museum, shop tour London | 2021

There's six more of this. Let me give him. Thank you. Thank you. Let's go take a look. That's a speed thing. I want to make an airplane. I want to make an airplane. How are you? I'm starting to speak now. Oh, we've seen this one. Oh, we've seen this one. And then it's going to be the same later when we do the show. I'm starting When to speak now. do I go in? Ladies first. Ladies first. Hand it on. As he walks up to you, you will hear the sound of a stone in the ramp, which marked a parachute exit that would be tightly shut. These hatches doubled as an escape route for the crew, as the aircraft had to be abandoned. High on both sides, you can see the bomb ramps, which were up to one ton bombs or depth charges behind and carried on into control. You can see depth charges have been cranked out onto the carriers as they would have been on the night of November 1944 when my father's son boarded the periscope of a submerged U-boat and swam down to attack. On that occasion the submarine and its crew were lucky enough and managed to escape. Please walk on to the next section. You are now in the galley where food was prepared. Look out from the top of the ramp, you are at the top of the ramp. The ramp leads you to the upper deck where you can see behind the engineers seats. Next to this is the crew rest area marked with two bunk seats and a folding table. These have incremental rest and eatability shifts during their long patrol. Go towards the front of the aircraft, up two steps and through the narrow doorway. Seating in this area is quite good Oh yeah, these people sit there. Oh no, no, no, no. Sit. Oh, here, no, no, take it here, come, come. Is there a cockpit? Not, not cockpit, sorry. Okay. We're in the cabin. There is a cockpit. Wow, look at the cabin. Wow, it's insane. That was nice. Over 15 hours. Is that for me? Some home comforts, without the necessary toilet, you can see on the right. The stairs in the centre lead up to the cockpit. In the forward section, you can see the bombardier's window. In the nose of the aircraft and above is the front turret. Further back on both sides you can see four 303 calibre Browning machine guns. These were fired by the pilot, usually to keep the enemy gunner's heads down. Between them you can see the anchor with its chain and winch, necessary as flying boats are operated from water, not land. This completes your visit to the RAF Museum's Sunderland Flying Boat. Please leave by the door. Mind your head and take care on the exit staircase. From a hard-spanning sunroof, 8 hours. Hey! Wait, wait, wait. Which angle, which angle? There. Wow. Jake. Jake. Jake. Jake. Baby limits. Wait, I'm missing the other one. Here, here. That looks good.