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From the looks of your web page, you are doing well in many of the areas that make a good museum visit. You have a good variety of A/C, your display is well lit, and if I am seeing it right, people can get up close an personal with the displays.
I also like the fact that you are reaching out to kids. Very important! Being about the only way I get to go is with the kids in tow, having hands on things for them IS IMPORTANT. There is only so much of just looking at A/C my youngest can take and then there must be something else for him to do. He loves the simulators and goes back again and again. Our local Air Museum has a couple cockpits (HULKS) that are available for kids to climb in and play(they are in sad shape with the heavy kid traffic but that is what they are there for and the kids love them.
Me, I like having enough light to see the displays, enough space between A/C so you can actually see and take photos from all around. They also try to do a daily flight of one of the collection, weather and A/C permitting. The kids like that too. If it is a nice day, some of the AC are rolled out on the tarmac for a better look see.

They also hold an event every so often with “Challenge Air” a non-profit pilots association that invites in kids with disabilities to have an opportunity to fly in a light A/C for free (they do take donations). My 8yr old got to go up and take the stick for a couple minutes in a Mooney aircraft. Very Cool!
Kudos to “Challenge Air” and “Fantasy of Flight” for sponsoring the event.

There is my two cents

looks a bit like the right hand chair in a B29…..the shape is right, but every pic I see has different instrument packages.

As we are still losing historical airframes to the scrappers, it does not make sense to go after “regular” airframes in the field. Recently saw an article on a Catalina bid away from the scrappers at an airfield in south TX, but two C47s in the same auction are beer cans now. Rescuing rare birds from the field is different, but as stated in many threads, the cost of a field recovery of more common A/C would go much further in buying a project from someone. I think it is that romantic notion of “saving” one from the wild that is so enticing. That whole “thrill of the hunt” thing!

Here is a link to a site with some nice pics of Canadian A/C in the wilderness. Makes you want to go on an expedition!

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search116.htm

Indeed the symbol is much older than Hitler and the Nazis. Native Americans also used the symbol. My High School mascot was the Blackhawks, a tribe of the American MidWest. The School flag had a chief in full head-dress and buried in the decorations on it was…..you guessed it, a swastika. I pointed this out to one of our teachers and he was quite shocked. Had to inform the teacher that this was much older than the German one and had nothing to do with theirs!!!

Aerial combat over the years has proven that there is much more to winning in aerial combat than just superior aircraft. Training and tactics have much over technical superiority. There have been many mismatched contests that have been won by the “inferior” “obsolete” aircraft. Take a look at the Finnish AF. Their Brewster Baffalo’s claimed quite a few frontline aircraft like Hurricanes, Spitfires, and Tomahawks.

The Japanese Air groups as well as the Luftwaffe started off with well trained crews, but as the was progressed, both of them spent less and less on training as desperation grew. Both the RAF and the USAAF took a while to spool up training and initially cut corners with disastrous results.

We know from hindsight that the Dauntless was not the ideal offensive aerial gun platform and that the tactics for using it as such were quite outdated. This was a stopgap, last resort sort of operation. It did not stop the crews of the time in using it to the best of their abilities under horrific circumstances.

You simply do what you have to do or die trying!

Hampden-May 16th, 1941
Here is the link
http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/results.do;jsessionid=0FE5531BC164350E8076E778AEA0D4E5?view=detail&db=object&id=68651

Working with colors day in and day out professionally, I would not presume to say anything about colors that appear on a computer screen after being shot by any camera. Would best leave that to those in the field with paint chip in hand. There are way to many variables that push colors all over the spectrum, especially on the internet!

The computer experts also say that after two years, throw your monitor away because it cannot be adjusted to the correct color and hold it! Me thinks they just want to sell more monitors to saps like me!