I went out with a woman that was blind.
You had to hand it to her.

Charlie
I’m with TonyT on this. Yonks ago, we sent some money ro Gt. Ormond St. Within a very short space of time – something like about three months, most of our mail comprised pressure begging letters from charities mainly in this country and, it still does.

Sadly had the same experience with BHF. Subscribed to give £5 per month. When the begging letters started I cancelled.

How do they lower, and then raise again the undercarts on those aircraft hanging from the ceiling?

I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking that they have ruined the museum.
The refit in the 80’s / 90’s was brilliant. It opened up the museum all the way
to the roof. Brightened up the exhibits and modernised the building. The aircraft in the roof were amazing.
Now it’s just a dinghy dark un-inspiring crowded cramped space.
The building quality is suspect too with duck taped step edges and a cracked upper floor surface.

The building needs to give space and compliment the exhibits. Now it overpowers and crowds them out.

Agree about the lack of descriptive labeling.
Should be a large, simply label explaining what it is. Then smaller more detailed labeling if you want it.
Some or most exhibits seem to have no labels at all.

Hate it.

When I got interested in historic airshow aviation in 1989 the aircraft that really caught my attention and imagination
were the Blenheim and The Hurricane.
I can remember entering the TFC hanger to see a silver Hurricane under restoration and spent many a weekend watching both the Blenheim and Sea Hurricane
progress to flight.
Now that we have sufficient Hurricanes how about a Hurricane Day at Duxford similar to the Spitfire day?

It was an interesting solution to the problem of extending the range of the fighter, but the drop-tank was so much simpler.

Moggy

How does it extend the range? I would have thought the extra drag and weight would negate any range advantage?
Was it intended as a jettison-able wing? In which case what happened to the struts?
The old adage “if it looks right, it fly’s right” obviously didn’t apply here. It looks so very wrong.

They record the aircraft in pictures for posterity which is more than their owners are doing.
Good on them I say.
I wonder how many old pictures have been obtained in a similar fashion and now appear in books or historical articles.

These things are so expensive could we actually risk them in a war?