Trident 3B Zulu Kilo rebuild complete!!

[VEGAS]

An excellent achievement and congrats to all! :partyman:

[petermcleland]

Well, fabulous!...Congratulations all round. A truly remarkable achievement :dance:

[Trident Man]

Thanx all for your kind comment's here is a piccy from today (the sun does shine in Manchester) :dance:

[Jetset]

Fanbloodytastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How fantastic does she look?

Well done one and all!

[kikko]

GREAT!!!!!!!!!! Do you think some transparent protective paint will be applied to avoid corrosion?? I hope so. For istance, the planes opendoor at the Luzern museun in Switzerland (Convair Coronado, DC-3 and Twin Pioneer) are in gleaming, safe and perfect condition after nearly 40 years in open air. RAF museum didn't apply nothing to the neglected Beverley and after years she was so corroded that became dangerous for people and consequently reduced to scrap.
Now only one Bev exists . It's a sad view to see old faithful planes demolished in that way and Cosford Museum did the same very recently with 2 vintage liners. Why ?? :tuttut: :crying:

[Garry Russell]

The Cosford airliners were cared for by British Airways who withdrew support leading to the disposal of the collection. They were not a part of the RAF collection at Cosford.

As the the Man Trident... it has paint so that if kept clean and free from fungal growth and dirt show help a lot

Many of the exhibits like the Beverly were put outside and left some without any further preservation work after arrival especially in the smaller collections.

The English climate is also less friendly to outside exhibits with in many places excessive damp and salt air

Germany scores better in the climate stakes.

G-AWZK has already been outside for many many years but the fact she was under care has saved her.

The guys there will be looking after her with a passion I'm sure

Garry

[jonesey2k]

Heh for the open day we will have to get a beer truck in or something