I was thinking that, but don't really know enough about the program to make an informed guess.
I know one of the white tubes of vague concern had a little radioactive material tag on it, but as one of the threads on here has already alluded to some wrist watches could get one of those.
The old man did some time in Woomera on that ugly piece of ironware -- mostly UNaerodynamic piece of aerospace
ever only going to prove that if you can light a big enough fire under it you can even get an Anvil to fly - I remember
seeing a copy of Flight in the early 60s that had a mockup of the MIRV carousel and that's what I THOUGHT I saw in the
video.
One of the last Great Warbirds Air Displays was held at Wroughton and the museum was open for free.
Had a good look round. Seem to remember a Lockheed Connie among other aircraft.
The Smithsonian Institution museums in Washington, DC do the same thing, in particular the National Air and Space Museum. There are permanent exhibits in Washington at the NASM's Mall structure, and also a satellite facility at Washington Dulles AIrport, the Udvar-Hazy Center. A significant portion of the NASM collection, including some of the rarest and most interesting specimens, reside at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility. The first two are open to the public, but not the Garber facility. It's the same at all of the other parts of the Smithsonian, only tiny portions of the collections are on display at any one time. Such is life in the museum world, I guess.
Sad that is is that they are away from veiw at least they have been saved
Too many types have been broken up because a museum couldn't take is due to space :-(
Some smaller items get loaned to other museums and exchanged with South Kensignton
Well, that works up to the Comet nose section, but a Comet, Trident , Connie...well not exactly portable, but hopefully one day something can be sorted in situ.
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"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
I think there were plans recently to open a big museum at Wroughton (a bit like RAFM have Hendon and Cosford) but I've not heard anything for a while.
It was (not surprisingly) very reliant on a pretty big lottery payout though if I remember correctly.