So where’s the next Nimrod going to?

Nice new book just out on RAF Lichfield by Hope Publishing; plus several RAF Penrhos pictures in circulation in particular relating to Australian Bomb Aimer Courses, which later moved on to the OTUs and HCUs – sadly copyright might be an issue! 🙁

What could be done for British aircraft preservation with that amount of money? 😮

He was the pilot that delivered the Hastings to NAM and about 8 years ago he was interviewed for NAM’s Virtual Museum CD ROM. IIRC in one section of the interview he mentioned that he flew a PR Spitfire over one of the Atom Bomb sites in Japan at the end of WWII.

The Sherburn Flying Club was the last place I heard he was flying from – this was not in the similar reference on here! 🙂

The National Aviation Heritage Register (NAHR) takes an interesting view, in that the September 2001 edition states – “Only a small proportion of the aircraft listed in the Register are flown or airworthy and these are clearly marked”

The NAHR does however take into account the standard of care the airframe (artefact) receives as part of its point’s allocation that is used to achieve its listing status.

IMHO they should be considered artefacts, whatever their condition or modification as that forms part of its history!

I’m with both you and Bruce; NAM’s Hangar 2 project that was built with a £453,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, plus volunteer fund raising efforts clearly recognises aircraft as artefacts – and important ones at that.

I appreciate that NAM’s aircraft are not fliers but sadly there is a general negative attitude towards aviation, which makes it something that many ‘traditional museum sector individuals’ sometime struggle to grasp!