AirSpace/Duxford – 14 Jul 07

Thanks, I do hope that is the case SM. It’s a bit sad I guess, but as a powered pilot I have a thing for engines. They had iirc a good little collection there. New display perhaps, “Engine Development through WW2?”

mick,
i think you’ll find that all of duxfords engines are being currently being moved into hangar five.
as for any paper work , i’d be very surprise if any has gone missing, what information have you got?

Now there’s a question, what has happened to all the old engines that used to be stacked up along the width of the old Superhangar? Have they made a new display out of them?

Don’t ask duxford, they don’t know where they are either, they don’t even know what engines they have or where the log cards are.

mick

Missing the point..?

At least the aircraft are now undercover which is alot better than having rare types sitting out in all weathers. How many vulcans and hastings are inside warm hangars?
The only sad point is that they are missing out with the Lancaster as she could have been restored like Jane and done taxi rides etc.

As much as I detest hanging exhibits, at least at Duxford they are reasonably well spaced and in good light – unlike Cosford.

Ah good!

It must be at least three weeks since we had the last ‘architecture v build big tin sheds’ discussion.

Moggy :rolleyes:

Thank you for the photos Brian, superb as usual.

But sadly they go some way to confirm that our major and important museums are in the hands of people who are more concerned about silly architecture than in the proper presevation of our aviation Heritage. I know that the hanging of aeroplanes has featured here before but who exactly has been making these crass decisions and have a charter to damage historical artifacts. Many of our rarest types are now dangling from the bloody ceiling.

They become impossible to photograph, examine or research or just to sit back and say “God I remember those”.

It wasn’t too long ago that the RAF Museum destroyed a Beverley on the pretext it was too expensive to preserve, but the same museum could afford to spend a huge sum an an expensive and totally useless piece of junk (oh sorry “Art” ) which has some artistic title but has more similarity to the Order of the Irremovable Digit, to honor the PO Prunes of this world. Prune by the way is now “something big” in the art world at the renamed Battersea power station and advises on how Aviation artifacts should be displayed.

The rot started with the detestable “American” hangar at Duxford and we should have seen the writing on the wall.

I know that funding from bodies like The National Lottery have strings, then it’s about time we had some voice in how to change this.

Wasn’t it Chicago who many years ago dropped a Stuka whilst hanging it?

All I can wish to the fools at the Imperial and the RAF “Art” Galleries. On your heads be it.

John

Recently read that MAM have on display a German WW2 jet engine. Haven’t been able to see it but just wonder out loud if it might have come from Duxford???

Roger Smith.

What’s the curator’s address? EMail/letter writing time? 😉

Now there’s a question, what has happened to all the old engines that used to be stacked up along the width of the old Superhangar? Have they made a new display out of them?

I wondered that BR – IIRC there were a couple of crated DB605s and the crates still had luftwaffe stencilling….

Also there was a mint BMW 801 on display in one of the hangars ‘restored with the help of BMW GB’ not seen that before…

TT

I don’t recall seeing the rear turret of a Warwick before, though I didn’t really bother to much with looking round the hangars in detail during Legends, so I must have missed it. Whats the story behind this then.

Looks like an early avon to me.

Now there’s a question, what has happened to all the old engines that used to be stacked up along the width of the old Superhangar? Have they made a new display out of them?

umm….. its not a Derwent, nene, sapphire, tyne, dart or avon…. must be a pretty early axial flow due to the promenant burner cans….

Nice set of pictures there 🙂

Out of interest, can anybody tell me what the engine is in the first picture of the gallery?

http://brianamarshall.fotopic.net/p43183429.html

I only ask as it looks remarkably similar to the sectioned jet engine that used to be owned by the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London.

Regards,

Dan

Nice pictures!