And nowadays most of the people in Civil Service HR posts are temps, on ****** all and with no chance of a pension. My other half has done so for the Police…

Adrian

Now that we all know how to run an aviation museum, anyone interested?

http://www.museumjobs.com/jobdetails.php?JobID=4680

(possibly more appropriate on the Hendon thread that was running a little while ago if anyone “in power” fancies moving it, but I went for this thread as it is fresher).

Adrian

Consider me educated, chaps – I wouldn’t have recognised it anway (though I might have guessed it if it was right way up), but its being surrounded by turrets didn’t help.

Thanks for sorting that out, Mark – much appreciated!

Adrian

Mark 12,

It’s fairly obviously a display of turrets in front on your first picture, with a nose section (Lanc?) to the left. But what on earth is the thing in front of that, looking like an oil drum with windows?

Adrian

Somewhere in there is a Westland-Hill Pterodactyl – now that really is a weird bird! But it’s so dark I don’t recall ever seeing it…

You should try the agriculture section – it must have been state-of-the-art in its time, and obviously heavily supported by Ford, but now it’s a fascinating early ’60s period piece.

Adrian

. I cant imagine the locals around Old Warden wanting the racket.

Never mind the racket – I can just imagine her going along the runway, trailing a vortex that sucks the entire Shuttleworth Collection off the ground in its wake! 😮 I just don’t think OW and anything too big and meaty mix.

Adrian

From the other thread referred to:

“Having seen a suspiciously similar pile of tangled metal on the tele, I can only say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to the first line!

Is that a Ferguson potato ridger next to the acrobat in the background?”

That’s astonishment, not sneering, thank you.:mad: I’ve peered into holes in the ground and seen what usually comes out of them. It’s a fascinating recovery, and pretty astonishing in itself. However, like V7497 in particular, I am frankly cynical that any “rebuild” can be considered as anything other than George Washington’s axe – especially with aircraft on the scene like the Teichmann Mustang or MH434.

And I happen to be interested in old farm machinery as well as Spitfires. One of the two I may one day afford. The Spitfire it isn’t. If you type “Fordson” into the search facility I’m not the only one – there are a number of us out there, some of whom are actively restoring ex-airfield Fordsons.

Besides, Harry Ferguson was the first man to fly in Ireland.

Huffing and puffing done – let’s get on with the subject.

Adrian