Great pics.

Please keep posting over the weekend 🙂

The ship refered to above as Nina, was actually “Santa Clara” nicknamed “Niña”.

This ship has never actually been rebuild, as nobody really knows what it looks like. They have a look-a-like type thing, but its mostly speculation (although competent at that), so we don’t really know how it sailed (except from the fact, that Columbus prefered it to the other ships, and it thus might have been the best of them).

Putting this back on aviation track, I would say that any replica Spitfire, is as much a Spitfire as the “Niña” replica is “Niña”.

There are no production company, that would recreate the Spitfire (or any other WWII aircraft) 100% like the wartime Spitfire was build. It would be too expensive. They are going to take production shortcuts and use better materials where possible (and why not).

This is naturally also the case with the “lost” types. You are going to be guessing, maybe good guesses, but still guesses.

I hope you are not suggesting, that the UK authorities should have kept any research into metal fatigue as a national secret.

Development might remain secret and covert, but aviation safty resesarch needs to be shared.

Besides that, I’m sick of Boeings too……actually just sick of modern airliners,

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Yes, you are right. The Duxford has been outside for quite some time, I did not take that into account.

With respect to our American friends, they tried to ban it from their air space when it first came out, why should this example of Anglo-French one-upmanship fair any better now.
It’s not part of their US heritage, I don’t blame them for neglecting it, it’s sits there as a reminder of a race that they lost to perfect a supersonic airliner, given the power, money and technological acheivement available in the States at the time, it must have really hurt.
Imagine if the situation was the other way around and some Boeing jobby was parked up at Heathrow as an example of what we were’nt able to achieve, apart from us keen types, would the authorities and the general public care a damn, I doubt it.
Whose idea was it to park it there in the first place.

Maybe the issue was not to perfect a supersonic airliner, but to run a profitable aircraft production company.

The Concord was only sold heavily subsidised and would never had seen airline service, if not for that.

Granted, thats no reason to ban it from US airspace, or for neglecting is as a display item. Nevertheless, as mentioned above, its in temporary storage while its museum is undergoing renovation.

USS Intrepid takes pretty good care of their display, so I’m sure G-BOAD will have a long and happy retirement.

BTW the Duxford Concord is not in great condition either.

Surely it would have been of interest to a museum.

My guess is, that there are very little money in scrapping aircraft and that it was scrapped purely to get rid of it.

Don’t they approach the museum community before scrapping?

It might not be cheap to transport an aircraft that size, but with a few well placed cuts, it could be lifted on a normal truck, or at least the cockpit could have been on display somewhere.

I’m not a great proponent of private induviduals storing aircraft in scrapheap conditions, but surely an actual museum, or aviation group, could have taken care of this aircraft.

Maybe it turned out, that no one (who could actually document a plan for it) wanted it, thus dooming it to the scrapper. They would never have been likely to hand it over to someone, who just wants it for the garden.

Nice to see how such a question is taken seriously by the forum.

As someone acquainted with fobias and angst disorders, I can only support the suggestions put forward by other posters. However, fobia and angst are irrational reactions to certain situations, or in this case, items. Seeing how the dummies are made, could help, but could also result in the idea, that his reaction is something very odd and inexplainable (which its not).

Angst (and a fobia is angst related) is a normal bodily reaction to danger. Its part of our survival system and we actually need it more often than we think.

The problem is, when the system “activates” without any danger present. This can result in a situation, where the autonomous system begin to associate “safe” situations, or items, with danger and thus “fires” whenever this situation arises again.

The most common way of treating such a “misinterpretation”, is by exposure. Not the sudden “scare” tactic, but by planning an exposure with the boy.

Angst, and thus a fobia, works in three ways. There is a thought pattern (which is called automatic thoughts), there is a physical reaction (important for our survival), there are feelings and there are a behaviour (like avoiding the situation, running away, or crying).

Of those things we can best change out automatic thinking (which is what tells your boy, that the dummies are dangerour). This is done by creating alternative thoughts. Example:

Your boy thinks the dummies will hurt him.

Alternative: He will try to calm himself, by thinking about how that never has happened before, even if he was scared of them before. Same situation, but never any actual harm.

To find some alternative thoughts, its nessesary to find the automatic thought (which can be hard with a kid). But basically to find why he thinks they are dangerous. Then together you can find the alternative thought. Which is meant to confirm, that the situation is not dangerous.

Knowing how dummies are made, could help create alternative thoughts.

He must come to know these alternative thoughts by heart, and use them when the situation arises. This is where exposure comes into the picture.

Talk about it, and then when he feels ready, try to visit a place with dummies.

In short, exposure is about making the autonomous system “de-learning” what it reacts to. By him thinking different about the situation.

I will also mention, that conquering a fobia will involve facing the fear. That is the exposure. However, it can be done gradual.

But i stress this, in order to get good results, he need to work on the alternative thoughts, otherwise the situation might be conquered by bravery, but still remain a dormant fear, that he might, or might not, grow out of.

A fobia (or angst) that is not completely conquered, is very likely to find another outlet. As in; no longer being affraid of spiders, but now affraid of bees.

Just read through this and found it maybe a bit “serious”. Not meant so. Its very likely, that such a young boy will grow out of it soon.