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

Posted by Tony C on Tue Sep 02, 2003 08:37:07 AM

In reply top 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

To say nothing about the ongoing preservation of the airframe. IIRC the Hurricane 1 at IWM Lambeth, had/has a tear in the wing.

I haven't been for a few years and do not know if this has been repaired but it wouldn't be easy to get at, to carry out any repair, in its current location!

Tony

: Sadlt it seems to be the way to go at the moment - look at
: the new NASM building, The RAFMs Milestones of Flight, Sc
: ience 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 build
: ing
:
: 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 whol
: e wing area - in suspension forces are concentrated on a l
: imited number of points -completely at odds with thedesign
: brief - surely thats stacking up problems for the future
:
: sk

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