Hendon Sunderland's brutal new 'health and safety' makeover

At least when I had a problem logging in, the Pprune moderator replied and fixed the problem the same day….

mmitch

It gobbles up Ex Key Forum Members   

Pprune frequently doubles as a ‘black hole’.

Maybe it sunk !!!

It’ll be interesting t see if this thread survives. There was a similar thread about the Sunderland floats on PPrune yesterday which disappeared overnight.

That memorial to P/O Maffett should never of been removed from display especially through the 80th anniversary of The Battle of Britain and whoever took that decision should be sacked.

That Hurricane told a million stories all in one of the Battle, the men, the sacrifice the pain that those flying suffered, the last moments.

I wonder how many of those few who left their aircraft lucky enough to survive and seeing the their aeroplane dive into the ground or sea thinking, “i’m so glad I got out’ ,Gerald Maffett got out but his parachute failed to open possibly from being to low, he gave his life and those remains those stark remains should be on display, could it be that those aircraft remains upset a few snowflakes?

Taking the Battle of Britain hall away was a wrong move, it should of been maybe upgraded more added but not destroyed, even The Luftwaffe did not destroy the few.

Sean I doubt any of us here would not welcome the return of P3175 along with some of our long departed forum members long gone.

I look forward to that emerging again. To a great many visitors,  it was one of the most striking and memorable displays.  R.I.P  Plt Off Maffett.

mmitch, and anyone else who remembers the Battle of Britain Hall, you will have seen the memorial, which was the crashed wreckage of a Hurricane.   That was P3175, DT S, the aeroplane of my uncle, Plt Off Gerard Maffett.   He died on Saturday 31 August 1940, after bailing out too low.   The aeroplane had been retrieved and amazingly restored by a rtd Lt Cdr called Geoff Rayner.   When the museum closed the Hall, they put P3175 into storage, and they’ve been promising ever since that it will be put back on display.   No news so far, though.

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It’s a Sunderland, not a Catalina. The floats are fixed.

Cant they fold up the floats?

They could remove the Battle of Britain memorial. Sorry I forgot, they did. That’s why I haven’t been back there since.

mmitch.

Have to sell the engines first

Why not convert the Sunderland to an Airbnb and have done with it.

Well they’d know about them if they walked into them.

Don’t worry, I’m fairly well secured into my pram.

Anne, maybe its because Prop Strike is the first aviation enthusiast that has been to Hendon since 2018, I doubt most visitors would even notice the Sunderland let alone the floats 

Tongue firmly in cheek before I upset more Dolly throwers 

Is this not rather old news as the replacement struts were fitted in 2018?  The originals have been placed in storage and can be refitted at some point in the future. 

whats next?

Wonder why they don’t sell all the aircraft, install rollercoasters and roundabouts with an aviation theme and call it RAFMuseumland.

That should keep the new(ish) Director happy.

Hope to hell the struts are new build and the originals retained so that they can be reinstalled when there is somebody in charge at Hendon with a modicum of common-sense and respect for the past rather than chasing a fast buck.

I would/could expect something like this here in the Netherlands but in Great Britain in “the” RAF Museum ??