The museum should move on the likes of the Morane Criquet and use the cash to get some serious work done on the Beaufighter or alternatively send it back to Portugal where it really belongs .

Surely that depends on how you think the museum should be looking forward, which is perhaps a conversation a few museums should be having. The latest work to the exhibits at EF suggests, Concorde aside (which I can see being a bit of a millstone in the long run), that the museum is focusing more on the history tied up in the land and premises it occupies. If so, than it could get away with shedding a few more airframes whilst it is at it! The Czech MiG 15 had me lost, and whilst the Komet is a great talking point for the overall weirdness of the design and for being the “wee plane” that attracts a few pokes and prods, it again it doesn’t quite make sense to have it at EF specifically. The MiG would make more sense in a Cold War collection for sure, but within a stones’ throw of a Spitfire it effectively turns that corner of the hangar into the ‘and all others’ section. I would happily see East Fortune be more orientated towards Scotland’s air history in general, and I think the absence of a Shackleton is most glaringly obvious at the moment.

Those photos take me back to being a boy. I would go there with my older brothers (I’m 25) when we visited my grandparents in Edinburgh. I remember that continuous plank of wood that ran around the exhibits, and I especially remember my brother being told off for putting a foot beyond it. It seems like they have lost some exhibits along the way, as I didn’t clock either of the gliders, that blue copter or the autogyro when I was last there. I was also amazed that you could go up and prod the aircraft now, and witnessed several people spin the prop on the front of the Komet (no wonder the thing sucked, have you seen the wee tiny propellor ken?) and saw a kid have a hearty tug at the rudders on the Beechcraft.

Makes me wonder if the acquisition of Concorde was worth it…

The APSS shed was all shut up when I was there, and at the time I didn’t know what it was. I was informed that the rest of the 707 was in the APSS shed, because the curator was certain that an entire 707 was brought onsite then chopped down to fit in the Concorde hangar.

Errrr… right enough…

Respect is not a word I can prescribe to music, but even if I could the same problem would arise because I’d still have to “respect” an individual’s music whether I liked it or not, simply because it was of a genre I liked. Which simply makes no sense to me. So we’ll have to agree to differ..

Missed this before…

There are bands that I don’t like, within genres that I do like. For example I like a lot of progressive rock, and I really enjoy the music of Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis, Van Der Graaf Generator, Soft Machine, Gong etc. I don’t like the music of Emerson Lake and Palmer that much. I respect them as musicians, but I don’t like the music they made together. I don’t think they are bad, just not something I can get into.

There is a point where, in the name of playing devil’s advocate, you end up doing TIGHAR’s work for them.

Perhaps “confirmed by aviation experts on the Keypublishing online forums” caveat will appear in their next presentations. :stupid:

Any ‘analysis’ that involves drawing lines in MS Paint over a photograph is not analysis. TIGHAR are not qualified for any real analysis, and frankly the work in this thread is probably of a higher standard.

When it is all said and done, why is it that only the DIY toilet window cover would survive from Amelia’s aircraft? Why that bit? Why nothing else?

I thought Britain First was simply the BNP in a new clothes…….

Flat caps and flasher macs by the looks of it.

Anyway, a ‘turned on’ friend of mine posted a Russell Brand video on Facebook. Luckily corporate IT blocks Youtube content so I didn’t have to see it. My ‘friend’ is one of the angry “we are the 45%” Scots Nats that are wanting a new referendum in the next four weeks etc etc… a workshy hard-done-by whiner. I knew he would get into the Brand rubbish and lo, I was proven right. This guy is angry in a fairly abstract way. He wants to ‘end Tory rule’ yet will only vote SNP or, presumably, demonstrate Brand’s method of voter apathy. “The tories dinnae care about us working class Scots, ken?”, which again becomes a hair-shirt wearing competition and something of a farce. Although, I doubt the conservatives really do care about thick Fifers.

Gumtree seems a bit low key for this sort of thing. Plan to make the deal in the local Tesco carpark?