Here in the head office, we get lots of letters and emails from people who love aviation. In fact, I'd say train companies are probably the only people who get as much 'fan mail' as we do.
Most of them are pretty harmless requests such as "I've never flown on your aircraft type before, when is the best time to book a cheap flight?" or "I'm interested in becoming a pilot, what can you tell me what is the best subjects to study at school?", to which we're more than happy to reply to, because we love aviation too.
We get general requests for excess supplies for peoples collections too, such as : (In order of least weird to weirdest)
- In flight magazines
- Old flight uniform pieces
- In flight safety cards
- Seat belts
- Sick bags
- A luggage pod from a damaged aircraft, in which they would like to grow some plants
- Old flight attendant pieces, preferably pre worn by a fair skinned celtic lady of good breeding.
Usually the in flight magazines can be bought off Ebay for a few quid, and the old uniform pieces are giving away to aviation museums. The rest we can't give away as it costs us money.
As for the last piece I mentioned there, the request came in from a chap from somewhere in Europe. He even sent a picture of his hideout where he had all his aviation memorabilia. The first pictures seemed ok, some great historical pictures from legacy airlines...
Then you spotted the war memoria pieces in the background... fair enough, if you came across some WW2 German memorabilia, I guess it's historic...
And then you spotted the mannequins. Oh so many mannequins. I'd hate to think of what his train collection looks like...
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