By: Peter - 21st October 2003 at 01:16
restore her already…
Lancmans right
they should get cracking and restore her and once they are done then they can get cracking on that shamefull halifax..!
By: David Burke - 17th October 2003 at 20:39
Maybe they should suspend her upside down doing a corkscrew
with some dummies inside hanging on their straps!
Then again I think I have been working a bit hard !
By: Bluebird Mike - 17th October 2003 at 18:16
LOL, don’t encourage Hendon to take out any more bulbs, for God’s sake!!!
But a bomb trolley display, complete with attendant crew, tractor & trolley etc, or an aircrew about to board by her rear door, would be excellent.
By: Peter - 17th October 2003 at 15:48
sugar
she should be mountd in dimmer lighting, on her wheels with bomb doors open waiting for her next load of bombs
By: Bluebird Mike - 17th October 2003 at 14:28
The tail was first lifted years ago, to make the aircraft look like it was landing-or so several Hendon people have told me over the years. The original back-projected moving clouds backdrop always looked naff, and has been absent for years now anyway. I have also been told that that it was done to ‘move the cockpit closer to visitors’. Hmmmmm.
When I pointed out to Hendon that Lancasters weren’t known for landing with their bomb bay doors open, I was told that the aircraft was pretending to be landing in a damaged state after a raid.
Well, I’m convinced-NOT.
I think some of the problem is exactly that Hendon DO have the new building to think about-at the expense of everything else!
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th October 2003 at 12:46
Ah, that old chestnut again. Yawn…
I would imagine Hendon have rather more pressing matters to deal with at the moment, with the deadline for opening the new building fast approaching. Which I seem to recall has also involved the movement of a lot of airframes within the existing buildings, hence the need to lift the Lancaster’s tail.
Maybe there will be a bit more reason for people to honk on about it AFTER all the upheaval is finished…? :rolleyes:
By: topgun regect - 17th October 2003 at 11:55
Hear hear lancman, I was at hendon during the summer with some Air Cadets and she did look like she could do with some more TLC and a coat of paint. Come on hendon ‘Your Lanc needs you’
By: Bluebird Mike - 17th October 2003 at 11:20
LOL!
Yes, a great effort, a real decent section for once. I’d like to see what has just happened to ‘George’ in Australia-i.e, coming off display for a full conservation job/repaint etc-happen to Hendon’s ‘Sugar’. Okay so the odd bit of conservation work is being done on her, and that’s the main thing, but either repaint the entire aircraft matt, or paint the repaired areas in satin to match how she is now-she’s very rapidly starting to look awful with this two-tone matt/satin approach now.
In anyone’s money she’s supposed to be a star exhibit of the place, and is the grandest bomber vet of them all, and yet what do they do? Stick her backside up on a stupid, pointless plinth and now make her paint look awful!
Come on Hendon for God’s sake, divert some of your attention from that new building of yours, remember that you have a 100 missions-plus legend in your collection, and treat it with the respect it deserves!!!
Thank you.
😡
By: warbirdUK - 17th October 2003 at 08:06
😀 😀
By: PeeBee - 17th October 2003 at 07:48
There are more than a few errors in your post too!!
I am teasing before I get slated!!
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