[Iris7]

I don't like to see those historic artifacts cut open, it is like a dissected person, just heaps of dead parts. There is a King Tiger at the Patton museum at Fort Knox with the turret cut away so that gape jawed yokels can see inside without effort, and U-505 in Chicago all cut up, ugh. The same museum in Chicago has a bunch of cut up radials, even a Gnome rotary, double ugh. Painful to look at. Removing the air cooling shrouds, sure. No more.

Put up a full set of drawings under glass, and use the mind's eye, and have a perfect exhibit. Don't cut the exquisite machine up. Cutting them up shows disrespect for the folks who built them and the lads who took them into harm's way.

What effort those old machines show, what fine people must have built something so well.

[SAMWolf]

Cutting them up shows disrespect for the folks who built them and the lads who took them into harm's way.

And I thought I was the only one who felt like that!!