Duxford!

[lefty]

Was passing by on our way to Cambridge -no flying, and a cold and windy day - took a few shots inside to pass the time -






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[lefty]

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(http://smg.photobucket.com/user/wilkofife/media/Duxford%202016/dux1_zpsccn2pytz.jpg.html)and the poor old Beau - 'no manpower, no time, no money'. (also, I fear, no engines) What a shame....

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[huub vink]

Thanks for the nice pictures Lefty. But your comment give me reason for concerns. Somehow I have the feeling that museums move in a direction I don't really like. The lack of money drives them more into an entertainment park than an area in which the past is preserved.

I do understand that museums need money, but that doesn't mean that I have to like the way they are trying to het this.....

Just a thought...........
Huub

[lefty]

Huub, you are quite right - although we have to admit there is a wider audience than just us aviation nuts !

Here in Scotland, quite a lot of people (including me) were upset that so much money was spent bringing Concorde - with little or no Scottish connection - to our Museum of Flight. Especially when there is another Beaufighter lying in bits in a store room round the back....

However at least the Bolingbroke/Blenheim has been finished, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.

The refurbished US museum at Duxford was a little disappointing - just a reshuffle really.

[Ferry_vO]

Still on my 'to-do' list.....