Whilst I have great respect and admiration for what has been acheived at Cosford, this does strike me as ridiculous. It does rather beg the question, WILL THE ‘FUTURE GENERATIONS’ REFERRED TO BE ALLOWED TO INSPECT THE INTERIOR IN YEARS TO COME, IF NOT, WHY BOTHER PRESERVING IT?
Ok, calm down, caps lock off, but this sort of thing does wind me up. Aircraft are objects whose history has been experienced from both inside and out. If you just get to look at a shiny exterior it may as well be a fibreglass replica or airfix kit. To even begin to understand the full story of an aircraft a visitor surely needs to explore inside, sit on seats, carefully inspect the cockpit, smell the smells.
Having taken a back seat and then read the responses to the thread I now feel less sure about the comments I made earler on. Whilst threads such as these can get a little heated and uncomfortable, the overall effect is educational and do serve as an ‘eye opener’. Having fairly recently gone through the trial of A-level physics I do have an appreciation of how ‘radiation’, particularly in its containment, is not a level playing field and so the explanation of the type of radiation invoved by those with a better understanding is very useful.
This said I stand by my statement that the exploration of the inside of an aircraft is vital to ‘understanding’ it, but I was probably a little wide of the mark GOING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and whining before fully understanding the facts.
Conscience clear now, cheers, carry on the debate 🙂
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