Nice pictures Dan, particularly like the first one of the black Hurricane, and the last one of Janie – nice to have a different visual perspective on that one 🙂
Is a Tweet.
A what??? Don’t think I’ve ever seen one before…
(And welcome back btw ;))
Without looking at other responses…
Seafire: “****! That Patterson guy is heading towards me…better hide!”
P.S. What is that jet, Mark12/Greenskeeper? It looks like the offspring of a successful union between a Hunter and a T-33…
Andrewman…ever heard of letting bygones be bygones?
Now can we just let this rest please?
The new site looks good Dan, good work 🙂
🙂 @ Snapper…it’s all sorted now…matters delayed by power cut at Duxford yesterday lunchtime, which makes now the first time I’ve been here since yesterday morning…
Did I miss anything? 😀 😉 🙂
Dave…I’m not upset with you 🙂 I have PM’d you about this so I’ll say no more.
l/p on this topic
Mike…as Flood as pointed out to you, the Collections Division does not include the aircraft, tanks and military vehicles – my exact words from yesterday – “Working in the Museum’s Collections Division (which does not actually include the aircraft, tanks and other vehicles)…”
Therefore I can only talk convincingly about policies that I know about, and help implement. I am not qualified to discuss the condition of and the care policies of the Museum’s aircraft, as I do not work in that area. Knowing how information can be twisted or embellished, I try never to pass on information concerning the Musuem, in a public forum like this, that I do not know for sure is a fact (e.g. “one of the Conservation guys said to me…” or “I heard that…”)
Too often people seem to think that large Museums such as Duxford and Hendon have pots of money to throw around…
We wish…
Never mind, next time someone would like my input on something like this, PM me or e-mail me, I shall not speak publicly on anything to do with the IWM again.
Becka
Dave…as pointed out by mmitch, all of the main exhibition areas at Duxford bar the Land Warfare Hall (LWH) have quite large windows, which allow a fair bit of light in. The LWH is admittedly quite dark, but I think it is intended to be, in order to create an “atmosphere” for the tableaus (and personally, I think it works) I am not sure that the IWM has an “official” policy for the level of lighting for exhibits in terms of the physical impact upon them, but I can certainly try to find out. Working in the Museum’s Collections Division (which does not actually include the aircraft, tanks and other vehicles) I am well aware of how seriously the Museum takes the preservation and conservation of it’s collection. Great care is taken to store our collections at the best possible conditions in order to keep the collections in good condition, and to prolong (if impossible to defeat) the eventual deterioration of the collections.
I will not pass comment on the RAF Museum’s practices as I do not work there, so I’ll stop waffling now 😀
Becka
Nice to see your source turned out to be correct, stringbag 🙂
Ok…here’s mine 🙂 (I’m the one in pink :D)
(Please don’t all flood the forums in a sea of vomit now :D)
Hardly up to the standards of most here, but some of my favourites of North Devon and Cornwall:
1) Hartland Quay
2) The view from the cliffs at Lynton
3) Duckpool
4) Rockpools at Duckpool
5) Typical Devonshire countryside
What about us jet loving gals huh, Stormbird? 😉 😀 :p
The TSR.2 is my very favourite jet (and it’s demise was the subject of my dissertation as I am sure I have mentioned before :D) The IWM has on film one of the test flights at Boscombe Down, although the cameraman sadly kept boht his feet on the ground so there are no air-to-air shots, and the sight of this magnificent beast is something to behold. In one shot it is featured coming in to land with the Lightning chase plane close behind looking rather puny and small in comparision 😀 🙂
Gunna have some fish mess tonight ayyyeeee
Makes a change from crispy hamster I suppose…:D
Very sad to hear this…met him at Legends last year, and one thing that sticks in my mind is what twinkly eyes he had – full of mischief 🙂