mustangdriver wrote:
We had the main museum currator on our show and he said that there are plans to build a building and that they hoped to break ground rather soon. This would house the larger aircraft. But once again, it is going to be a long while before they come inside.
All i know is the main people who try to get the money for the museum and handle said money in regard to how it's spent told me there is no plan to get the bombers under cover currently underway either now or at any point in the foreseeable future. And that was quite recently, at the media event where they talked about mining asteroids...
The Inspector wrote:
The original plan, several decades and administration teams ago,was to remove the DC-3 from inside the Great Gallery and replace it with the/a B-17 (at the time no one knew that Swage would buy a B-17 or that the MoF would wind up with it) the building is stressed to support as much larger and heavier aircraft so teh B-17 wouldn't be an issue. The entire Southend wall is a huge hinged door more than big enough to get a B-17 inside with only the removal of the right wing from #4 outwards.
I'd totally fogotten about that, the marketing guys also told me that had been the plan at one point. It'd slipped my mind until I just read that. We had a long talk and it was quite clear to me that preservation of warplanes
does not draw the big donor bucks they're looking for.