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And it occurs to me that given some very minor modifications, *one* of
the AF1's is very handicapped accessable. One just wouldn't be able to wheel through the rest of the airplane. True, but I doubt any wheelchair-bound person nowadays would want to ride Roosevelt's rickety-looking elevator into the cargo bay of a DC-4... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Rob Perkins" wrote in message
... The old Air Force One airplanes at Wright-Patterson can never be h-capped accessable. The passages left to museumgoers is only two feet wide, after all the plexiglass protective walls are accounted for. In spite of this I think the Air Force is still letting people go through the planes. There are plenty of examples of places that are accessible by the public, but not to all handicapped people. I'm no expert on disability law, but it's obvious that the ADA has some sort of allowance for situations where accessibility is not compatible with practicality or history. It's not the case that simply being accessible by the public is in and of itself sufficient for requiring handicapped access under the ADA. It's possible the Evergreen Museum actually does believe that the ADA requires the Spruce Goose to be made handicapped-accessible, but I doubt that the law actually does. There are too many examples of inaccessible museum displays, aircraft and otherwaise, for that to actually be the case. You mentioned the AF1 displays at Wright-Patterson, and the AF1 display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle has the same characteristic, as do many of the displays at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson (including their AF1 planes). Someone needs to get the folks at Evergreen straightened out. Pete |
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"Peter Duniho" wrote:
It's possible the Evergreen Museum actually does believe that the ADA requires the Spruce Goose to be made handicapped-accessible, but I doubt that the law actually does. Well, y'know, Pete, what can you say? It's Oregon! :-) Rob |
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Jay Honeck wrote: Maybe we should keep quiet, lest someone bitches and they have to shut 'em down. I don't think there's any fear of that. I took a look at the ADA stuff, and it's all very well worded. There is no mention of the regs being applicable to museums, and the regs are full of phrases like "where reasonably accomplished". I expect what's happened is that some organization has threatened to sue the museum and the museum can't afford to defend the suit, so they've caved in. The Air Force would tell such a group to stick it. George Patterson Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. |
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Did they have the SR-71 out yet
"C J Campbell" wrote in message ... Someone posted on the Pacific Northwest Flying forum that they had flown to McMinnville, OR to tour the Spruce Goose. What they found out was that since the entire airplane is not handicapped accessible the public was no longer being allowed to go through it. The only view of the interior now available is from a glass box inside the fuselage. If the airplane is not made accessible to everybody then nobody can see it. Of course, modifying the airplane to make it accessible would probably destroy its value as an artifact. Evergreen Museum is attempting to get around the rule by claiming that registered members are not the general public, so at least their members should still be allowed to tour the plane. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA If you go around beating the Bush, don't complain if you rile the animals. |
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In article , Rob Perkins
writes: In spite of this I think the Air Force is still letting people go through the planes. Of course they are. After all the government is exempt from such silly goverment edicts. After all, if the government had to abide by all the silly edicts that it imposed on the rest of us, they'd get less done than they do now. Such is the logical end of such efforts at "fairness" in society by the socialist lot. Keep lowering standards nearer to the lowest common denominator, until finally it's at zero. John |
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JohnMcGrew wrote:
After all, if the government had to abide by all the silly edicts that it imposed on the rest of us, they'd get less done than they do now. As Martha would say (now more than ever) "that would be a good thing." |
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