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I was up in Auckland for a couple of days last week and finally managed to squeeze in a visit to MOTAT (it's taken me years to get to arrange this visit!), so to celebrate here are a few of my photos.

I was pleased that they seem to be willing to let us old farts in without paying but on the other hand they do seem to be restrictive in not allowing us to climb inside and around them! Any way, it was a great event for me and will certainly be on my list for future visits to Auckland.






















That's all for now folks..............

Great Photos , would have love to visit MOTAT again , back in my day 'Young Fart' was allowed on board the .. spose talk the talk and walk the walk , I guess it comes down to organizing a day and visit before the public hours , I simply score the day went the guy was doing some simple light work and cleaning .. I really wished I had a good camera back then.

Great shots Greg ...... but somethings missing When snapping the Solent , had you had turned 180 degrees ... you would have been in front of the Airtruk
Im sure you just forgot to post the the pics

Splitpin wrote:Great shots Greg ...... but somethings missing When snapping the Solent , had you had turned 180 degrees ... you would have been in front of the Airtruk
Im sure you just forgot to post the the pics

Good point, Marty - it is nearly Hallowe'en after all

And speaking of old farts, we just finished moving 3,500 museum items from our former storage to a new place. Among them was a little can, about the size of a baby food tin, labelled "Ribbon of Bruges"...when we checked the details in our database, it turned out this ribbon was used in WWI field hospitals. A bit of it was burnt after a patient had used a bedpan, to clear the air.

ATB

Self Addressed Envelope on the way, thanks Marty...

Funny, I drive past MOTAT a few times every month, and it's somehow never on the agenda.
Thanks for posting, Greg, must make the time...

Splitpin wrote:Great shots Greg ...... but somethings missing When snapping the Solent , had you had turned 180 degrees ... you would have been in front of the Airtruk
Im sure you just forgot to post the the pics

Ha ha, yes I did see that and realised that it's even uglier close up so I just couldn't bring myself to lower my camera to that level of nastiness even though I was tempted just for Ian's enjoyment!

Good news Marty. I found the dreaded Airtruck tucked away in the corner of another photo so here it is in all it's glory for Ian to appreciate and enjoy . . . .

This is a heavily cropped section out of a larger photograph but it still gives an idea of the sheer weirdness of this beast of a flying machine


The Havard above does go some way towards redeeming this shot!!

Charl wrote:Self Addressed Envelope on the way, thanks Marty...

Funny, I drive past MOTAT a few times every month, and it's somehow never on the agenda.
Thanks for posting, Greg, must make the time...

Glad to be a motivating force for you, it's taken me long enough to get there