I once worked for a man who had spent most of his working life in the research and development department of a major toy company where he worked in a small office with the same few people each and every day. Having been made redundant he decided to open a model shop.
I had already worked in other model shops for 15 years so I knew that the public can be both very pleasant to deal with or downright rude and unreasonable on occassions. My boss hadn’t realised just how difficult it can be to deal with customers and it wasn’t too long before he retreated to his office and left me to it.
The shop didn’t work out and after 6 years he had to close but he still admits that he has no idea how I managed to deal with the customers as he had and still has little in the way of customer service skills but he was a good designer / draughtsman.
It is worth remembering that volunteers in any museum are in exactly the same situation. They may be extremely good at restoring or maintaining exhibits and carrying out other work around the museum but that doesn’t mean that they are good at dealing with visitors. In an ideal world the museum managment would put those with the better customer skills in customer facing roles but when volunteers are thin on the ground it may be a case of doing the best job possible with the available people.

I had the same problem with some old books and after searching round the web found that absorbent cat litter seemed to be the cure recommended by several book dealers. As I had no cat litter I sealed some of the books in a plastic sack with an air freshener but this wasn’t very effective.
The books have been in a heap in my computer room for 3 or 4 months now and the central heating seems to have dried them out and got rid of the smell but it did take a long time.

If the aircraft owner grants privileged access and then asks that the person given access doesn’t publish the pictures until after the official press release then the owners wishes should be respected by the person given privileged access. A certain amount of trust is involved here and abuse of that trust means no privileged access to any future events.
Tuck 1940 was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time but wasn’t subject to any picture embargo so there should be no problem with him posting his pictures here.

As others have said the pilot in question continues to invest significant amounts of money in restoring and maintaining historic aircraft which we all have the pleasure of watching fly. I am sure he has just as much, if not more interest, in keeping them in one piece as those of us who are never likely to be able to afford to fly anything at all (other than a kite on a string).
As Blue Max said anything mechanical can decide not to work at any time and ALL humans make mistakes. Whatever the reason the pilot involved has paid to put the aeroplane back into the air again and we all benefit from the pleasure of seeing it fly again and lessons should have been learnt for the future.

Clicked on the Youtube link and found that the clip has been removed by the person that posted it in the first place. Maybe someone decided that publicising the stunt may be ill advised.
I have seen my fair share of low flying over the years at airshows. Some have looked safe and controlled and others have provoked a sharp intake of breath at times but thankfully none of them have ever gone badly wrong.

We have a lovely aeroplane with comparatively minor damage and an uninjured pilot.
IF pilot error was involved then I am sure that a valuable lesson has been learnt from an incident that could have had far more serious consequences.
Whatever the cause I am sure that everything will be done to try to prevent a repeat of the incident.

Very sorry to hear that you finally had to close. I am sure the developer could have spared you the small piece of land for the museum buildings and with the right approach they could even have worked it so that the museum was an asset to their development but, as usual, the developer doesn’t appear to be able to see beyond the immediate cost of losing a little bit of the land..
I hope that something positive comes out of this and that you eventually land up with a new home that allows you to develop the museum to its full potential. There may even come a day when you look back and think that the enforced move was a good thing for the museum.