Thanks Matthias, I hope you won’t mind me putting up a link to your YouTube footage? It sounds great!

The lack of visitors to some air museums is worrying, a few weeks ago on one midweek day the Coventry Classic flight had just 2 visitors in one day.

It’s perhaps to be expected that a mid-week day at Coventry would be quiet, it’s a workday for most and it isn’t particularly close to other attractions. Even somewhere like Duxford is amazingly quiet on an average day, especially if you’re used to seeing the throng on airshow dates. I agree it would be great to see these places rammed 24/7, but it isn’t going to happen. Weekends, school holidays and special event days are the big attendance times for most.

As I understand it, there was a hatch in the belly that the Nav climbed in through, and he then sat ensconsed in the mid cockpit section between pilot and gunner. I once spoke to a veteran who’d done some navigational training on Battles in Canada, and he said he was very glad of the hatch in the floor when the one he was flying in turned turtle on landing and killed the pilot.

I hope nobody minds me dragging up a slightly old thread, but a couple of clips have been posted on YouTube of the Scout having engine runs carried out. It looks amazing!

Well the the P51 is in 4th FG colours, which was ofcourse the group formed from the three RAF Eagle Squadrons, so it represents RAF/US co-operation. The museum has a very active American Friends foundation, and keeping some aircraft in US markings is a good gesture of thanks.

It’s in the news pages of the latest Aeroplane Monthly markb, no precise location given but there are a couple of pictures.

Interesting concept! It sounds mad at first, but makes more sense the more you think about it. Original finishes, cutaway sections, patina…sounds like the perfect museum!