ropes

wow very nice on all accounts! I agree the great unwashed public do take some looking after but do reconsider the ropes and barriers thing! It just looks so much better without ropes and barrriers in the way! as you say it needs someone there at all times though and thats a pain.

I have a car restoration shop at Infineon Raceway CA and you should try being here on NASCAR week, I stepped out for a minute and when I came back there were people sitting in cars having there pictures Taken! even one in an E-Type tub up on stands…………..Rednecks………….

thanks, glad you like it.

as you say, no barriers does help with photo opportunities but it does present other problems…….we must be a little more vigilant i think andd post some big notices about.

people just don’t seem to have respect for effort or other peoples property sometimes.

then on the flip side you do get the odd polite person who does ask and genuinely takes an interest, you don’t so much then, it makes it seem worth it then.

philip

hugging

Oh my God! It looks fantastic! Well done!

And that Beech, I’m sorry, considering the ‘touching’ posts re. museums above (which I wholeheartedly agree with), but I want to hug it. It is so beautiful.

thanks, cool eh

re hugging, clean hands only, no drooling or anything else please

grasshopper

On the other hand: a kid who was walking across the mainspars of our Grasshopper one airshow day got the woppiest whack I’ve ever seen a parent give to his child (after I had already less than gently knocked him off our wing). Damage surprisingly was minimal (to the aircraft, that is).

should have hooked him up to the bungee, little treasure.

really annoying

I know exactly what you mean with punters not respecting the exhibits, we always have this problem at OW while putting aircraft away and no matter where you go with MVs someone always wants to climb on them. We stopped at South mimms services last year on the way to Beltring went in for a bite to eat and to use the facilities, came out to find a couple of young kids literally hanging off My WC54 trying to pull bits off with their parents grinning and taking pictures. The parents were very upset when I asked them which was their car and promptly sat on the bonnet, and even then they couldn’t understand what I was getting at. The pictures of your display look fantastic would love to come up and look sometime, when is the next open day?

it is really annoying isn’t it and some of these folks are just so think it is astounding. They just do not comprehend how much effort and time as well as money is involved in these things.

glad you liked the display.

not sure when the next running day is, i suspect end of august but can’t be sure.

next running day, 24th August

philip

Most of the time there is someone standing with each project watching and answering questions, trouble is occasionally they get bored and wander off at which point people come and do the touchy feely thing…….spotted 1 chap running his greasy paws down the side of the silver T-6, i don’t understand what they get from it……..wet pants maybe

barriers next time

thanks about the beech….it did look nice in the sunshine

philip

i am sure a lot of people wanted to do that, good job i kept the key in my pocket