Heavens above…I worry more about the damage to the aircraft than to the visitor in the cockpit.Little blighters flicking switches,violating rudder pedals,older ones with a screwdriver trying to remove instruments and everyone clambering over seats and centre consoles with gay abandon(thinks..is that PC these days?). Don’t let em in unless you’ve got plenty of spares!

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Big Vern but looking at the pix,still enough to create a bit of interest among the tourists!

The Helicopter Museum used to tow helicopters thre miles to the seafront for exhibition and also once towed the Belvedere a mile or more on the main road to RAF Locking…….we stopped because of concern that the wheel bearings weren’t really up to long distance towing at 20 plus mph and towing at low speed irritated the motorists stuck behind……..those were the days!

I don’t think Molesworth have any selective disposals authority.
I know the OH-58 there is currently being held pending the result of a bid entered with officials in the USA after Molesworth forwarded a request on.
In the case of the various fixed wings I guess the same applies…if the USAF Museum won’t donate them then applicants could be able to go to the disposal route and bid to buy them,in competition with the scrappies?

Pizza Hut? That’s nothing…I saw someone eat a whole Macdonalds once…….

The Helicopter Museum actually has a notice warning visitors…no admissions one hour before closing, although some discretion is used and the shop remains open until the very last minute….we need the money! The cafe however has to close about 30 minutes earlier tho as environmental health rules require everything to be clean and tidy before they go. To provide further hints about closing time ,one gate is closed,the flags are taken down and still we get people turning up at the last minute and claiming special circumstances to go photograph or look at something.
I have to say the staff are far more accommodating and tactful than I would be at the end of a long day, but surely that is no excuse for the attitude sometimes of last minute visitors.