So, when it comes to the public face of the museum, don’t spend the money on ‘Digital Technologies’ – you’re not impressing anyone. Spend it on lighting the objects, keeping them clean, keeping them conserved, paying decent writers – try Copywriters – to write boards that are concise, snappy, but convey a lot of interesting information (not that the Mark V weighed 123lbs more than the Mark II, while you are looking at a Mark XIV), and please not a picture of the exact (to the uninitiated) object you are looking at. And put the museum next to some working examples, or at least in context – not on a dual carriageway in a suburb.

Thank you for that, Beermat.

I have visited the Battle of Briatain Hall twice – and I did not like it for the same reasons as stated already above by others: Lighting and not enough space to walk around the aircraft. However; I am still happy if sich aircraft a preserved and accessible for visitors – I do not really mind if it is in a dedicated BoB hall or if I could see them somewhere else… Digital displays can be fine but normally they are not. If it is just to attract children, then there are probably better options. One has been taken in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, Switzerland. They built up a huge playgroud for children between the museum’s buildings. A pond with boats, a construction site etc.. Children can play whilst adults visit the museum. The bad thing on that particular example: A rare Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer has been disposed off to gain space…

Didn’t know there was a Zero in Europe!

@ Fouga23; not really a Zero – but a NA T6 modified to look like a Zero. See the engine cowling and in particular the two-blade propeller. Another example of such “Zero” flies in La Ferté-Alais. That one is the machine which was used in the movie “The Empire of the Sun”.

…your fotos indicate that you stood a bit closer to the fence than I did. I missed the two tankers dropping their load because there were plenty of other people’s heads in between 🙁

I thought that the weather was ok. At least at La Ferté. There was lots of rain further east, in Switrzerland and Germany…. which resulted in the absence of many of the aircraft announced, as the Morane, the two Dewoitine 26, the Bf 109G etc.

Oh dear no. Please No. Its a unique aeroplane and should not be altered in any way.

I fully support this statement.
It is anyway not easy to understand why all the Buchons are restored most accurately but then always painted in Luftwaffe colors… no problems with that if the engine would be hidden under the original “Messerschmitt” shape of the aircraft – but a four blade propeller and the obvious appearance of the Merlin makes them looking not only strange…

Never seen a B-23 before – many thanks for sharing these photos 🙂

@ Brian – correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that the photos of the Chevrolet WA were taken when it was in temporary storage at Duxford. Could you confirm that it is now back in Lambeth?

@ Moggy – I have researched once the story of that particular truck and wanted to publish a small book about it (naturally including also other related things). Never managed to complete the project – maybe since I started to become distracted by vintage aircraft more and more over the time. Thanks for remembering me that there is still an open task 😉

A very good short film – thank you, Simon.