Continuing the vandalism thread, how about incidents in the hangar or museum?
A couple to start with…..
Shortly after our rear gun turret was completed with replica guns, a fine chap decided to pull on one of them to see if they were real or not. After snapping one of the barrels off of it he walked out the front door and didn’t say anything to anybody.
The second incident saw two young fellows decide they wanted a closer look at the blenheim by climbing up on top of the wing so that they could look into the cockpit! Our cockpit is currently stripped but the paint job had just been completed a few months prior. Fortunately I was working on the lanc at the time and noticed them in time to shout at them not to climb on the aircraft. Needless to say when our curator came in he was not impressed at all and was pleased that no damage had occured.
Why is it that kids and young adults see air museums as a playground where they think that they ccan do what they want to what they want and go/open/climb in everything in site..?!
By: Colin Wingrave - 1st January 2005 at 16:55
The problems we have these days is that the parents of these children do not see any problem in what their kids get upto, at our museum its not unusual to see children climbing on the military vehicles and guns in the parade ground and when approched and asked to please get down of someones pride and joy they comment that is not going to do any damage as its an old war truck !!!
We have had instance where one of the board members of here visits us on opendays with his willys jeep it attracts children and parents to sit in it without even askin the owner.
without doubt its the parents fault for not bringing to the childs attention that this could be someones property just like mum n dads car which I am sure if they caught you sitting in it out in the car park when they return to it and your answer is ” I was only looking, my dad had one of these last year” it would then be a 999 call to the boys in blue.
By: italian harvard - 1st January 2005 at 16:35
I wish it was only kids and youngsters..
I remember one refuelling of the Tiger particularly interesting: we organized a small fly-in at our airfield, there were lots of ppl and despite we placed red&white tapes to delimit the “keep-off” areas, we had a couple of “infiltrates” hanging around.
I was standing on top of the cowl refuelling with a fuel tank, I turned my sight for a second and there it was, that silly sod looking at what I was doing smoking his cigarette.. sometimes ppl stupidity is beyond human comprehnsion..
Alex
By: Peter - 1st January 2005 at 15:02
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