The Canadian’s new museum at Trenton is excellent – a big square-shaped building with a glass front and big door. It may not be a genuine wartime hangar but the Halifax looks good in it. I dear say and hope it eventually won’t have smaller aircraft suspended dangerously above it either.
These new style fancy hangars also say something else to me – once the planes are all in there, they’ll never move again. It would be too costly and difficult to take one out for a repaint, or to shuffle them round to fit a new aquisition in. So as Lancman says, very dead aircraft. Those museums with hangar stly buildings can move the exhibits round with some ease to change the line up occassionally so the displays don’t become stale and tatty.
It is good that they are being put under cover, but these modern museums would not be my preferred option over something more simple and practical like Trenton.
Furthermore, lookinmg at that artist’s impression top-right in post 1, it looks just like a hanagar that has collapsed after a bad fire or an earthquake. Where do they get their inspiration from??? 😮
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