RAF Museum is a complete joke. The last research enquiry I sent to them wasn’t even acknowledged.

Recently I have been experiencing the same thing!

Contrary to that however was a very positive experience I had last summer with the RAF Museum, when I made an online enquiry about some drawings for the Spitfire. There was a woman then working in archives; I don’t recall her name but it will be somewhere in my records; anyway she sent me A2 copies of the drawings within a few weeks, accompanied by a very polite letter and of course the invoice, which I must say was very reasonable. I paid the invoice and surprisingly she took the time to send me another letter thanking me for prompt payment.

At that time the service was exceptional and I could not fault it, in fact I went out of my way to tell people of this marvellous service……then suddenly it all changed!!

A lot of my more recent correspondence has either not been acknowledged or the recipient was not very helpful.

Hi Steven,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

I had a look at the huricanerestoration website which is very informative – but alas also expensive for the drawing copies. Their list of drawings though was very useful as a resource to add to what I have managed to collate so far.

I did not see a manual listed for the Hurricane, but they do have ‘interchangeability data sheets’ which may help.

The link to Canada Aviation museum was very interesting – thank you.

I see you are in Canada – I just finshed a job there last year in Toronto – was there for a few years – had a great time though the work was certainly challenging.

Regards

Hugh