‘Milestones’ was opened on the 17th Dec 2003.

“IWM refuse to release their former CC material in a way that would place it in a true public domain – shame on them!”

Not a shame at all, far better they can use it to make money for the Museum.

Nice work on the AC, but without doubt the worst page I have seen this year. Makes you wonder why they bother presenting the information, when it’s done so badly.

Their skill obviously lies in the area of aircraft recovery rather than IT. And given the choice between paying for an all singing, all dancing website that would meet with your approval, and spending that cash on recovery/restoration, they have obviously gone with the latter.
Would you rather not have the website and the information/photographs it contains because it’s not up to scratch?

Moggy

any civilian death is needless, really a case of ethics, think of the deliberate fire storms that they caused in some of the german cities.

cheers

With some of these civilians working for the war effort, the level of innocence is very hard to apply.

In modern situations such as Afghanistan, where we are not at war with the country, just at war in it, civilain innocence would certainly apply.

But a war between nations, where the whole population is supporting the war through direct work in factories and other means of support on the home front?

My grandfather during WW2 worked for ESSO as a tanker driver. Innocent civilian or part of the war effort?

I would think it was the latter.

No such thing as an innocent civilian.

Do any members have any idea what it could be from? Is it from an aircraft, or is it something like an officer chair with a harness added?

Johnnie

It’s from a Catalina.

That is utter rubbish, the lighting is crap – simple as that, so don’t try using that old chestnut.

“Utter rubbish”….. this is obviously based on your lifetime of employment as a photographer then. They Museum may or may not have many problems…intensity of lighting is certainly not one of them.

Good to see Kev35’s posting on this, wise words at last.

It no longer has the live feel, its too much like a museum rather than airfield following the days flying.

Richard

So many tired comments on here, given without thought to the actual circumstances encountered by the Museum, but this must be the classic of the post…

It’s too much like a Museum because…hey…it’s a museum.

“Lets just be clear – the RAFM doesn’t suffer because it’s underfunded. Money is available and what’s needed could be found.”…thanks for that ‘JDK’…you seem to have your finger firmly on the pulse, why don’t you enlighten us all?

And as for the old chestnut about lighting levels in the BoB…a poor photographer blames his equipment or circumstance for bad shots…the attached will show that lighting levels are perfectly OK for photography in the BoB…

However, like all subjects that arouse passion such as this, I am also aware that there is truth on both sides. BUt think on this; do you really, REALLY think that the managemnt of the RAFM like nothing better than to antagonise, alienate and generally hack off any segment of its target audience? The sensible answer is of course no.