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Re: NASM Policy Debate for the Weekend

Posted by William Reese on Fri Oct 19, 2001 08:39:34 AM

In reply top Re: NASM Policy Debate for the Weekend posted by simon king on Thu Oct 18, 2001 04:09:36 PM

Simon,

Thank you for the welcome! I guess I was just a little miffed to say the least when I read post from people that don't know of what they speak. The intentions of Mr Steven Udvar-Hazy when he made his large donation were for the construction of a new facility to house our magnificent collection which by the way is one of the best things that could be accomplished for this collection. Adequate temperature and humidity control will do more to increase the longevity of all the myriad of materials that were used in the construction of these historic objects. This includes aluminium, bakelite, phenolic, fabric, plexiglass and so on. By the way our focus here at Garber is wherever possible we will strive to preserve or conserve original materials as opposed to all out restoration. The Caudron G-4 we completed in the last two months is a perfect example of this philosophy. If we did not take this approach we would not be doing a service to the original designers and builders of these aircraft. Let it be known that if the object needs a full blown restoration it will be done.

Best Regards
Bill


: Bill
:
: Welcome to our little world!
:
: I hope you don't think anybody is decrying the NASMs work
: - I guess quite the opposite, NASM are probably a victim o
: f your own success in that the many wonderful complete res
: torations that the Garber Centre has undertaken over the y
: ears mean that anything less than the full monty (or shoul
: d it be the full Mikesh) now seems second best in the shor
: t term
:
: I suppose we all have our different favourites of the airc
: raft in store and all of us hope that their own favourites
: will be next in line to be restored to the standard of th
: e Gekko, the Seiran, the Me 262 or the Ar 234. They will b
: e in time I am sure. In the meantime I'm sure many will be
: pleased just to see a number of the airframes reassembled
: , unrestored but nevertheless on public show for the first
: time in many moons.
:
: The He 219 seems a very popular next one on the line - but
: how about the Horten Flying Wing or the Bv155 or even The
: Swoose or etc etc...................
:
: One plea though - don't do an RAFM Halifax on us! Don't ju
: st restore a prominent bit and plonk it on the unrestored
: hulk!
:
: Simon King
:

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