Science Musuem Back room video...

[SkippyBing]

one looks like the MIRV platform from Blue Streak

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.

[DispatchDragon]

It was an informed guess on my part mate

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.

Leif

[DogTailRed2]

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.

[Garry Russell]

The Connie is N7777G ex Shannon that was brought over to star in the next series of Airline which was never made

Originally intending to be made airworthy it was found to be beyond the budget and in a lot poore condition that at first thought.

The Science Museum acquired it and painted it in TWA livery althought this was one aeroplane that never flew with the airline

Today it still looks good from the outside but no one can go aboard as the corrosion is so bad the floor cannot support the weight

Garry

[Tarasdad]

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.

[Garry Russell]

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.

Garry

[jamesstables]

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.

[Garry Russell]

Wroughton was mentioned the other day in a Honda article :think:

They are going to store cars there as they have over production in the present climate

But a proper museum would be great someday even if it's still a way off.

Garry

[jamesstables]

Theres a bit of info here: http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART39134.html

[Garry Russell]

Thanks for that link James

It would be money well spent

Garry