I OFTEN visit the Maritime Museum in Falmouth and take my grandson. I have learnt that the Sea King helicopter in the Search and Rescue exhibition is to be taken away next year. This is apparently to make way for an exhibition about the Vikings.

I have seen lots of children and adults make a bee line for the helicopter. Even pilots have been so enthusiastic to visit it. One person I was told who visited it was one of those rescued by this helicopter in the Falklands and was so eager to see it again.

The Sea King has been something we live with every day. It is so wonderful for all of us, including adults and children to see one on the ground that we are able to explore. I know there are lots of people and children that are going to be very upset if this helicopter is going to be taken away from us. So we appeal to all at the Maritime Museum that this helicopter can be left for us to visit. The Viking exhibition could still be available, but the helicopter is much more realistic to us all, as it has always been a part of all our lives flying above us for many years here in Cornwall and beyond.

The Search and Rescue exhibition and Ben Ainslie’s boat are the best exhibitions so far, so please keep them both for us all.

Jenny Hughes,
Stithians