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About LinkBacksWE must be long, lost brothers!Originally Posted by mikewint
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WE must be long, lost brothers!
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Hey guys, I agree with all of you guys on here-it's the parents and today's 'me-centered'- attitude. Parents get very very up tight if you scold their naughty brats for doing something wrong, as if you have no right to upset their little 'angels'.Well if they kept their kids under control, others wouldn't have to do the disciplining for them!
Sadly the problem is all over the world. I live in Johannesburg, south africa. We have quite a nice museum here, the South African Museum of Military History. Sadly, the aircraft are not very well looked after and the guards have no pride whatsoever in the exhibits. A case in point is the one day when I was at their awesome FW190A-6. there are small 1ft high barriers around the aircraft, and I was taking pictures of the machine for a modelling project when somebody's little kid climbed over the barrier and ran up to the aircraft's DF loop antenna and started to tug at it. I looked around for the parents and saw the father busy prodding the canvas rudder that sticks out over the barriers, despite the 'please do not touch' signs. I yelled for him to get his kid away from the aircraft, which woke the guard up (he was sleeping in a chair outside) and the guard had the cheek to come straight up to me, ignoring the circus going on under the aircraft with the kid, and demand I put my camera away as he said photography is not allowed! (no signs saying that!).
Last edited by Alte Hase; 06-19-2012 at 06:58 PM.
Man that's screwed. I take it that's the Saxonwold museum with the Me 262B-1a/U1? VERY sad if such prizes are being so neglected.
Won't go into my own experiences on this, but it is everywhere.
Suffice to say I too would have had my @ss kicked by the old man if I'd even thought about doing what I've seen others do.
Juvenile delinquents raising kids is what it amounts to and it damn sure shows.
A-Fricken-Men!
Agreed!
Yes, its the Saxonwold museum. Its pretty sad, those aircraft are quite badly neglected. The 262 had a partial 'repaint' to the empennage and they used totally mismatched paint and from what it looks like, applied it with a brush, not spray as the original was. On one of my previous visits I found a wet floor rag and mop lying on top of the horizontal stabiliser of the FW190 (its 70 year old original fabric!)...it's also had its canopy cracked by somebody trying to force it open. Not good.
I still maintain people should have to pass an exam on common sense and common decency before being allowed to breed.
That counts about 80% of the world out in one go...
And I reiterate, that is so sad that such a historic collection is going to pot
I remember when I was a kid, I'd be fooling around out in the boneyard at Chino while the guys were working on a crate (or two). I could wander around the old machines but I wasn't allowed to touch ANYTHING...even though the old aircraft were sitting exposed to the elements or had been cannibalised, etc.
And on some of the old aircraft, I was allowed to climb in and look around, but that was it...period, no exceptions...
Now while that didn't seem like much fun to me at the time, it did instill a huge amount of respect for things that are not mine.
Last edited by GrauGeist; 06-19-2012 at 08:55 PM.
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Lucky, you got to wander around the Chino boneyard.
Exactly!
I would argue not being allowed to touch anything is a little extreme. I had similar, and while yes, you learn to respect things that aren't yours, the subversive lesson I learnt was that I couldn't be trusted to be careful.
I think this is part of the reason I am a perfectionist and extremely self critical, the feeling of having to 'prove myself worthy' dogging me my whole life.
Ain't that the truth.....My wife is an assistant at the local school and some of the stories about some of the kids....well!!! Then you see the parent or parents and you know the apple don't fall far from the tree.....
I do my Vietnam talk at many different schools, just getting started in Ark. but I see the same thing there. About half the class were busy with their cell phones texting or whatever while the teacher just sat there. Don't know where we are headed but not anywhere good I'm afraid. Can't imagine why the US is 30th in the world in education
Motivated, Dedicated, Lethal
Thats a scary figure Mike considering the amount of political influence America has on the world...
If I saw those kids doing that I would've snacted each phane and tanken them to the princepal's office!!
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