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Re: Re Mostly - DO NOT HANG up your aeroplanes. Bad, bad idea

Posted by simon king on Tue Sep 02, 2003 07:43:19 AM

In reply top Re Mostly - DO NOT HANG up your aeroplanes. Bad, bad idea posted by Tony C on Tue Sep 02, 2003 04:44:53 AM

Sadlt it seems to be the way to go at the moment - look at the new NASM building, The RAFMs Milestones of Flight, Science Museum, IWM Lambeth, American Air Museum, Le Bouget etc etc

I don't like it but I suppose its a practical use of space to reduce the footprint and hence costs of a museum building

Has anybody done any long tern research into the harm that this method of display is doing to historical airframes??

When an aircraft is flying forces are spread over the whole wing area - in suspension forces are concentrated on a limited number of points -completely at odds with thedesign brief - surely thats stacking up problems for the future

sk

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