Update from the Chippy Workshop …..
Now that the weather is improving, and we are open five days per week, we are receiving more visitors. More visitors means that we have to be careful when carrying out repairs to the outside buildings and hangars. Safety is the museum’s priority.
In an earlier blog, I mentioned that we had to renew the ceiling in the paper store (or as we call it ‘the shed’). We have now put a complete new roof on that building.
Also, we have made a new canopy to go over the Bomber Command entrance as the old one was in a bad state of repair. I understand that it had been there for a long time.
Tony is still making bird tables for sale in the bric-a-brac shop in the hangar. This helps to generate income for the museum. We also made a number of garden seats and tables as well as recycling old tables and chairs given to the bric-a-brac.
On junior engineering day for school children, we in the chippy workshop had a last minute booking from a young lady who wanted to learn how to handle some of the workshop tools. She went home with two bird boxes that she had put together. One of them she completed without any help from the workshop staff. In the near future you may see this young lady chippy volunteering in our workshop.
The red triplane in the hangar has been brought into the workshops for a new coat of paint. We think that the Red Baron finish was not too popular with the visitors and there had been no offers of purchase, unlike some of the other ‘push planes’.
Good to hear you ‘boys’ are keeping busy!