Thank you for the photos Brian, superb as usual.
But sadly they go some way to confirm that our major and important museums are in the hands of people who are more concerned about silly architecture than in the proper presevation of our aviation Heritage. I know that the hanging of aeroplanes has featured here before but who exactly has been making these crass decisions and have a charter to damage historical artifacts. Many of our rarest types are now dangling from the bloody ceiling.
They become impossible to photograph, examine or research or just to sit back and say “God I remember those”.
It wasn’t too long ago that the RAF Museum destroyed a Beverley on the pretext it was too expensive to preserve, but the same museum could afford to spend a huge sum an an expensive and totally useless piece of junk (oh sorry “Art” ) which has some artistic title but has more similarity to the Order of the Irremovable Digit, to honor the PO Prunes of this world. Prune by the way is now “something big” in the art world at the renamed Battersea power station and advises on how Aviation artifacts should be displayed.
The rot started with the detestable “American” hangar at Duxford and we should have seen the writing on the wall.
I know that funding from bodies like The National Lottery have strings, then it’s about time we had some voice in how to change this.
Wasn’t it Chicago who many years ago dropped a Stuka whilst hanging it?
All I can wish to the fools at the Imperial and the RAF “Art” Galleries. On your heads be it.
John
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