Comments on: Science Museum http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jakob http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-62704 Jakob Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:17:40 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-62704 It is impressive, but for something that's all about celebrating speed, I find it a bit... massive. Generally I find the aesthetics of the aeroplanes superior. It is impressive, but for something that’s all about celebrating speed, I find it a bit… massive. Generally I find the aesthetics of the aeroplanes superior.

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-62700 Brett Holman Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:41:20 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-62700 For those who haven't seen it, there's a photo of the trophy (or at least the top of it) <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Schneider_Trophy_2006-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It's a bit ... different ... but I quite like it! For those who haven’t seen it, there’s a photo of the trophy (or at least the top of it) here. It’s a bit … different … but I quite like it!

]]> By: Ricardo Reis http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-62667 Ricardo Reis Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:55:35 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-62667 I think the trophy is beautiful and am surely surprised everytime I see someone difer :) I think the trophy is beautiful and am surely surprised everytime I see someone difer :)

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-57039 Brett Holman Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:10:22 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-57039 Well I can't argue with that. Well I can’t argue with that.

]]> By: CK http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-56914 CK Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:27:08 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-56914 Phwoar! Phwoar!

]]> By: Jakob http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-56152 Jakob Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:05:01 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/30/science-museum/#comment-56152 I was told this story by one of the Science Museum old hands; I assume it's apocryphal. Supposedly the command module was supposed to be on loan from NASA, and one day a request came through for the eventual return of the module. It was pointed out in an embarassed manner that it was now one of the centrepiece objects in the shiny new expensive exhibition, and could the SciM please keep it a little longer? No more was ever said. Like I said, probably apocryphal, especially as I've heard a version in which the module has to stay because there's no door large enough to get it out, which seems unlikely. As for the Schneider trophy, my first thoughts on seeing it were 'they went to all that effort for *this*?' I was told this story by one of the Science Museum old hands; I assume it’s apocryphal. Supposedly the command module was supposed to be on loan from NASA, and one day a request came through for the eventual return of the module. It was pointed out in an embarassed manner that it was now one of the centrepiece objects in the shiny new expensive exhibition, and could the SciM please keep it a little longer? No more was ever said.

Like I said, probably apocryphal, especially as I’ve heard a version in which the module has to stay because there’s no door large enough to get it out, which seems unlikely.

As for the Schneider trophy, my first thoughts on seeing it were ‘they went to all that effort for *this*?’

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