Hello,
Visited Duxford last week, and had a look around the new AirSpace development.
It looks as if the ‘new’ building does not not provide any additional display space (0 square inch= 0 square meter).
The building gained new conference facilities and educational space, which I fully aprreciate are part of museums in the 21 century, but apart from the big shed added to the front of the building, nothing was gained.
Although they managed to cramp some extra material inside (which is a good thing), it is looking very crowded, and I am just wondering what the plan is with the area ‘up front’?
Although it currently houses the Victor, is it display space? Is it restoration space? Is it accessible to the public?
Will they continue to do what they have done for the last 25+ years?
Restore aircraft and put them outside again, restore them, outside again, etc.???
I realise it is easy to critice, but surely with 25+million pounds more could have been done.
They could have easily built (with the many spent now) two large hangers side by side (after they pulled the old one down), one for the military aviation collection, and the other for the Duxford Aviation Scoiciety airline collection. Bringing everything inside!
It woud have been a great national facility to celebrate British aviation.
In stead there is an over crowded building (with many aircraft hanging), a ‘big shed’ for restoration and 5 large airliners outside? Money well spent?
This surely was the last major oppurtunity to get ‘stuff undercover’ at Duxford.
Although it looks good, it seems once again Britain decided to modify something old into something ‘not really up for the job’? (saying that will they get a Nimrod?)
How long will the remaining airliners survive? What about future acquisitions? Where will they go?
Why is Duxford, such a fantastic site, struggeling to built functional buildings to house large objects?
By: Moggy C - 13th May 2007 at 23:05
😀 😀 😀
You could be right.
Moggy
By: David Burke - 13th May 2007 at 21:22
Moggy – I have a feeling searching for ‘Airpsace’ might not cut the mustard ! Where is it anyway? Near Alsace?
By: Moggy C - 13th May 2007 at 20:28
Certainly Kev 🙂 My pleasure.
Why not start here?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=47123&highlight=AirSpace
You will find several links in that thread to earlier discussions.
However in the spirit of ‘If you teach a man to fish..’ can I suggest you click on the menu item ‘search’ in the bar at the top of the page?
Go to ‘advanced search’
Type ‘AirSpace’ into the little box.
Select the Historic forum to be searched
And then right click to start the search.
I should think that will do the trick
Moggy
By: kev35 - 13th May 2007 at 20:14
Moggy.
Being somewhat illiterate (according to Phillip Jarrett) and also being not entirely computer literate, would you mind please providing the links to the discussions on Airspace as I am having some difficulty using the search facility.
Thank you.
Regards,
kev35
By: Moggy C - 13th May 2007 at 20:03
You’re so helpfull.:rolleyes:
mick
Help is available should Springbok need it, he only has to ask.
Moggy
By: JonathanF - 13th May 2007 at 19:50
Here’s a question for you all re Duxford.
I went to the place for the first time (yes its appalling ts taken that long to go) for the BBMF display. I also went within the same week for a second visit as a guest of the DAS to talk Viscounts. So Ive seen the site in short succession on a quiet and busy day.
I dont understand how in the American Museum with all the aircraft bar the P-47 and Huey you are able to walk pretty much completly under the airframes and look in the wheel bays and under the fuselages etc etc. THe B-17 for example I was able to take a load of close up pics for a planned model as I could walk under ALL the airframe.
Why in the AirSpace is this not the case. I know the Vulcan has some strategically placed rope to walk under the bomb bay and Concorde has a smilar set up for certain areas of the airframe but everything else is more roped off.
Certain exhibits in the AirSpace I can understad as they are delicate. I also understand the differance due to space and some aircraft being flyers in other Hangers.
But any ideas why the huge differance between American Museum and AirSpace?
I haven’t yet visited the finished AirSpace, but I think it’s because the exhibits in the AAM are far too vulnerable to damage. It was a bit of an experiment in full (exterior) access to exhibits, and it does this well, but with the above-mentioned trade-off.
By: moocher - 13th May 2007 at 18:56
As could you 😉
Moggy.
You’re so helpfull.:rolleyes:
mick
By: Russ - 13th May 2007 at 18:15
As could you 😉
Moggy.
Typical…
By: stuart gowans - 13th May 2007 at 18:08
AAM, British designed, and American run?, Air (waste of ) space, badly designed, and badly run… (they didn’t even have the gallery open on the BBMF day)
By: Phantom Phixer - 13th May 2007 at 17:20
Here’s a question for you all re Duxford.
I went to the place for the first time (yes its appalling ts taken that long to go) for the BBMF display. I also went within the same week for a second visit as a guest of the DAS to talk Viscounts. So Ive seen the site in short succession on a quiet and busy day.
I dont understand how in the American Museum with all the aircraft bar the P-47 and Huey you are able to walk pretty much completly under the airframes and look in the wheel bays and under the fuselages etc etc. THe B-17 for example I was able to take a load of close up pics for a planned model as I could walk under ALL the airframe.
Why in the AirSpace is this not the case. I know the Vulcan has some strategically placed rope to walk under the bomb bay and Concorde has a smilar set up for certain areas of the airframe but everything else is more roped off.
Certain exhibits in the AirSpace I can understad as they are delicate. I also understand the differance due to space and some aircraft being flyers in other Hangers.
But any ideas why the huge differance between American Museum and AirSpace?
By: Moggy C - 13th May 2007 at 17:08
As could you 😉
Moggy.
By: Russ - 13th May 2007 at 16:45
Springbok,
You might care to make use of the search facility if you haven’t already. The subject of both Airspace and the ‘Why not just build a big rectangular shed and stuff everything inside?’ argument have been discussed at great length previously.
Moggy
Maybe you could point him in the right direction?
By: Moggy C - 13th May 2007 at 16:37
Springbok,
You might care to make use of the search facility if you haven’t already. The subject of both Airspace and the ‘Why not just build a big rectangular shed and stuff everything inside?’ argument have been discussed at great length previously.
Moggy
By: dhfan - 13th May 2007 at 15:54
Well, it’s better than the concrete wood-louse and the Cold War building, but that’s about as far as I’ll go.
By: Russ - 13th May 2007 at 15:52
mmmmm £25 Million eh….. :rolleyes: Someone done well…
Well I agree, especially when compared with Cold War Building at Cosford….
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