Hi Mobius – and welcome. Good to see that pic. Presumably another truck had the wings on it. Shouldn’t think those straps did the elevators any good!!

Roger Smith.

Hi Tom,
First my selfish hat – I don’t like large numbers of unassociated items spread around/obscuring the principal exhibits – but from the views on your website you don’t seem guilty of that. I do like the occasional diorama where an aircraft becomes part of a larger exhibit and I believe such a display can be enjoyed by most visitors. I like exhibits well lit although, if you are not visiting to take photos, I can see the arguments for moody/atmospheric lighting.
Taking off my hat, don’t ignore the ladies. Do whatever you can to make the experience of visiting your Museum more enjoyable for mum/wife/girlfriend. At the very least a comfortable, reasonably priced cafe/teashop, displays highlighting women’s roles in flying/production/servicing, a memorial garden with seating. Also to cater for families with a wide age-range a children’s play area will help. Finally, good toilets will not be the top memory of visiting your Museum – bad toilets might be.
Hope not teaching Granny to suck eggs!!

Roger Smith.

Can’t help I’m afraid Alan – other than to suggest the expensive option of buying the Indexes off Key!

Trouble is these are all annual so would still take some searching.

Roger Smith.

PU-597 The Minimoa looks lovely – as much a contrast to “six turning, four burning” as could possibly be 😀 😀

Roger Smith.

Vulcan at MAM????

Coincidentally we are only a few days past the anniversary of XL360 arriving at Coventry Airport – 4th February, 1983. The Museum paid the MoD £5028 virtually all of this raised by local donations.

XL360 stayed parked on the apron for several months until the ground was dry/firm enough to tow her to the Museum. Thankfully it was a hot dry summer and, despite it being an uphill run, a VERY large tractor provided by Massey Fergusson (at that time a Coventry company) did the job admirably. Only one ‘soft’ spot was found during the move.

Roger Smith.

Bump! – only two days left folks.

Roger Smith.

I’ve got my patriotic hat on (for my home town that is)

Steve T’s suggestion of a Siskin is probably second but topping that would be a flyable RE8 – most of the originals were built in Coventry. Acheivable but the engine might be a bit tricky.

Does anyone know how accurate the recently-built Peter Jackson RE8 is?

Roger Smith.