Rauhbatz wrote:
That sign cover was the idea of Terry Treneff, airport board member. The sign looks as a good as the first day it was put out there; yes hard to believe we have that much sun in Ohio...but the UV still gets thru...
I've seen plenty of examples of sun-bleached and weather-worn information placards next to aircraft, so the lid stood out to me as such a great idea. What material did you use for the sign itself?
I particularly enjoyed the detail about the new nose section. Based on the description, I take it that it was never associated with an airframe and was just used at the factory, correct?
Two things irk me, the misspelling "McDonald-Douglas" and, to a lesser extent, the lack of hyphens in the designations. I know firsthand how hard it is to correct signs once they have been installed though.
On the subject that wear has on displays, there was a
creative example called the "Touchometer" at the Ashmolean Museum that shows the effect of repeated human contact with artifacts. It featured pieces of limestone and silver as well as a digital counter in a gilded wood frame.
[1] One half of each was covered with a piece of clear plexiglass and the other was left exposed. As visitors touched the exposed half they began to wear, while the portion that was covered remained pristine. (Essentially the same thing that happened to the
left-front and
right-rear of Flak-Bait's nose when it was on display.) The counter kept track of how many times the materials had been touched. Similar to the car in the
half-and-half restorations thread, I thought it was another neat way explaining the behind-the-scenes aspect of decision making in museums.
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