Warbird Information Exchange

On the other hand, the NASM, which is relatively preservation-obsessed, keeps the most precious artifacts in its collection, and some of the most precious aviation artifacts anywhere, in the brightest parts of the museum where they get lots of light all day every day. And some of those are fabric covered aircraft which would be the most vulnerable to light damage. This makes me wonder whether preservation is really the reason for keeping metal WWII warbirds in darkness. I tend to attribute it more to a misguided sense of atmosphere. Or maybe just high utility bills for lighting and (in rooms with lots of windows) air conditioning!

August

Well I personally am pretty proud of how well lit Lone Star is. About a year or so ago, all the lights were changed out for those new chrome shielded skinny flours, getting rid of the old bucket style jobs like Wal mart has.
The air cond. bill is another matter. aaarrgh. We have some serious tonnage of a/c but all it can do is make it stuffy instead of stifling in summer.

Right now we're waiting out Ike. Don't know yet where the a/c flew but Larry emailed us in the very wee hours this a.m. that today was fly-out.

Doug

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