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By: - 23rd November 2020 at 19:46 Permalink
I would/could expect something like this here in the Netherlands but in Great Britain in "the" RAF Museum ??
By: - 23rd November 2020 at 20:13 Permalink - Edited 23rd November 2020 at 20:16
Wonder why they don’t sell all the aircraft, install rollercoasters and roundabouts with an aviation theme and call it RAFMuseumland.
That should keep the new(ish) Director happy.
Hope to hell the struts are new build and the originals retained so that they can be reinstalled when there is somebody in charge at Hendon with a modicum of common-sense and respect for the past rather than chasing a fast buck.
By: - 23rd November 2020 at 21:51 Permalink
whats next?
By: - 23rd November 2020 at 23:23 Permalink
Is this not rather old news as the replacement struts were fitted in 2018? The originals have been placed in storage and can be refitted at some point in the future.
By: - 24th November 2020 at 07:29 Permalink
Anne, maybe its because Prop Strike is the first aviation enthusiast that has been to Hendon since 2018, I doubt most visitors would even notice the Sunderland let alone the floats
Tongue firmly in cheek before I upset more Dolly throwers 👶
By: - 24th November 2020 at 09:22 Permalink
Well they'd know about them if they walked into them.
Don't worry, I'm fairly well secured into my pram.😁
By: - 24th November 2020 at 10:21 Permalink
Why not convert the Sunderland to an Airbnb and have done with it.
By: - 24th November 2020 at 13:02 Permalink - Edited 24th November 2020 at 13:03
Have to sell the engines first
By: - 24th November 2020 at 14:28 Permalink
They could remove the Battle of Britain memorial. Sorry I forgot, they did. That's why I haven't been back there since.
mmitch.
By: - 24th November 2020 at 18:26 Permalink
👆😂
By: - 24th November 2020 at 21:59 Permalink
Cant they fold up the floats?
By: - 26th November 2020 at 19:12 Permalink
It's a Sunderland, not a Catalina. The floats are fixed.
By: - 21st January 2021 at 19:00 Permalink
mmitch, and anyone else who remembers the Battle of Britain Hall, you will have seen the memorial, which was the crashed wreckage of a Hurricane. That was P3175, DT S, the aeroplane of my uncle, Plt Off Gerard Maffett. He died on Saturday 31 August 1940, after bailing out too low. The aeroplane had been retrieved and amazingly restored by a rtd Lt Cdr called Geoff Rayner. When the museum closed the Hall, they put P3175 into storage, and they've been promising ever since that it will be put back on display. No news so far, though.
S
By: - 21st January 2021 at 21:00 Permalink
I look forward to that emerging again. To a great many visitors, it was one of the most striking and memorable displays. R.I.P Plt Off Maffett.
By: - 22nd January 2021 at 08:02 Permalink
That memorial to P/O Maffett should never of been removed from display especially through the 80th anniversary of The Battle of Britain and whoever took that decision should be sacked.
That Hurricane told a million stories all in one of the Battle, the men, the sacrifice the pain that those flying suffered, the last moments.
I wonder how many of those few who left their aircraft lucky enough to survive and seeing the their aeroplane dive into the ground or sea thinking, "i'm so glad I got out' ,Gerald Maffett got out but his parachute failed to open possibly from being to low, he gave his life and those remains those stark remains should be on display, could it be that those aircraft remains upset a few snowflakes?
Taking the Battle of Britain hall away was a wrong move, it should of been maybe upgraded more added but not destroyed, even The Luftwaffe did not destroy the few.
Sean I doubt any of us here would not welcome the return of P3175 along with some of our long departed forum members long gone.
By: - 22nd January 2021 at 13:54 Permalink
It'll be interesting t see if this thread survives. There was a similar thread about the Sunderland floats on PPrune yesterday which disappeared overnight.
By: - 22nd January 2021 at 18:40 Permalink
Maybe it sunk !!!
By: - 23rd January 2021 at 17:30 Permalink
Pprune frequently doubles as a 'black hole'.
By: - 24th January 2021 at 08:44 Permalink
It gobbles up Ex Key Forum Members 💃
By: - 24th January 2021 at 10:31 Permalink
At least when I had a problem logging in, the Pprune moderator replied and fixed the problem the same day....
mmitch
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By: Prop Strike - 23rd November 2020 at 19:27 - Edited 23rd November 2020 at 19:35
The Sunderland, under which the museum cafe has been located, has endured the 'cruelest cut', and now sports peculiar and inaccurate truncated floats, such that if it were to be lowered into the sea, the propeller blades would now thrash the surface!
The reason would seem to be to ease the flow of customers in the cafe. So the final score;
Burger and Chips (1) Accurate presentation of historic aircraft (nil )
Ir would be nice to be able to take a more positive attitude to the RAF Museum, but time and again, they seem to treat the aeroplanes as peripheral, not to say an inconvenience.
Spot the difference