A new display for a special object in the faculty’s heritage: the F-104 Starfighter ejection seat
On 24 October conservator Cormac Duggan from the TU Delft Tailor-Made heritage team carries out a conservation cleaning on the F-104 Starfighter plane ejection seat next to the service desk in the Fellowship. Cormac and his colleagues are currently making an inventory of the faculty’s collection of heritage objects with the aim to conserve them and present some throughout the faculty. The ejection seat is part of the collection.
Een nieuwe display voor een bijzonder object in het erfgoed van de faculteit: de schietstoel van de F-104 Starfighter
Op 24 oktober voert conservator Cormac Duggan van het TU Delft Tailor-Made erfgoedteam een restauratiereiniging uit op de schietstoel van de F-104 Starfighter naast de servicebalie in de Fellowship. Cormac en zijn collega's maken momenteel een inventarisatie van de collectie erfgoedobjecten van de faculteit met als doel deze te conserveren en een aantal te presenteren op de hele faculteit. De schietstoel maakt deel uit van de collectie.
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