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Post by baz62 on Dec 19, 2012 11:47:52 GMT 12
As someone who worked at the Museum (actually when it was called the Historic Centre so I am old!!) I would hate to see the fine work that has been done there to be put in a bad light because of one or two old mistakes or errors of judgement. Actually one thing i did think about is how some people in the world just don't know what goes on in their backyard or overseas and think "oh its old junk I'll just throw it away, noone will want that!" You only have to see some of the posts from people amazed to see what is going on insofar as aircraft rebuilds and the like goes when the more older or experinced among of us know these things (Mainly due to this forum! Kudos to you Dave!!). And the Museum has helped Anthony with access to Auster drawings having quite an archive of J5 and T7 drawings so they can help if they can.
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Post by John L on Dec 19, 2012 13:28:52 GMT 12
Perhaps the Museum should have contacts with scrap dealers......who knows what items might turn up from other sources, to whom they may be "just old bits of scrap metal....."
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Post by errolmartyn on Dec 19, 2012 16:17:08 GMT 12
I have to agree with Dave; if Air Force Museum of New Zealand staff see something on this forum that they do not agree with or feel is totally incorrect, then why don't they say so either to Dave directly via e-mail or PM, or by posting something on the forum directly? It's not the museum's job nor practical for it to monitor this or any of the other myriad of forums, facebook, twitter, blogs and websites, not to mention TV, radio and print media. It would be an endless task. As we all know there is much on the internet, etc, that is suspect or just plain wrong. One must simply exercise caution when dealing with it. caveat emptor! Errol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 19, 2012 22:24:14 GMT 12
You're right Errol. The same goes for magazines, books and newspapers too.
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Post by corsair5517 on Dec 31, 2012 12:30:15 GMT 12
Obviously things have changed at the museum since I volunteered there in the late eighties; I wouldn't have crossed the road to pee on the museum management if they were on fire back then - loads of empire building going on to the detriment of the fine work being done on the hangar floor by as good a bunch of people as I have ever worked with! I well remember the Disney Corsair fiasco.... I remember a colleague presenting hard won information about the possible resting place of NZ5517 and being ignored.... I remember well the dig in Kaiapoi for Avro 626 wreckage where the AF was obstructive and the Army fell over backwards to help.... I'm glad that this malaise has stopped and that there is more progressive thinking happening; the Wigram complex holds a special place in my heart, too....
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Post by John L on Jan 4, 2013 15:35:16 GMT 12
Didn't the old management, "demand", that John Smith hand over the Mosquito to them!?
We have much more enlightened people in charge now, thank god.
However - being a Gov. institution, (being military and all), eternal vigilance is always necessary, to ensure a great leap backwards into the "dark old days" does not occur amongst management - as it has in some institutions overseas ....... which could negate all the good will the current mob have built up, over the last decade or so.
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