Yes indeed.. I have the ear of many folk there. The VC10 is going to be reassembled to a state similar to how it would have looked prior to having it's wings put on (and fin I presume cause there's no sign of that anywhere). :think: It will be open to the general public as a sort of 'living' museum with various artifacts on show and will illustrate the manufacturing techniques used in it's construction. A very neat way of turning scrap into something useful even if I do say so myself
No info on the completeness of what came down mate. I fear the worst but have been wrong before. A pound to a pinch of sh1t the VA badges off the control yokes will have gone (and if they have.. it was nowt to do with me) I'll see what I can find out for you
I don't know why Cosford had to specifcally become an 'RAF Museum', when we already have one at Hendon.
Large Airliner exibits obviously take a LOT of looking after and at a cost, but I feel more emphasis of thought should have gone to them, in sacrifice, maybe, of some of the more common military stuff - IF that would have helped.
And now we have lost the BA livery worn by those Airframes, I hope the Brooklands VC10 will one day appear in it (as the current scheme is really non representitive) as their Concorde has.
An interesting point about A40-AB but I don't know how tied they are by the terms they took the aircraft on. It is certainly not representative of any UK livery/operator (even though bits of ASIX blue are starting to show through) though to paint it as such would then leave the inside unrepresentative :think: A bit of an odd one out me thinks
Penny drops and I now wonder if you are talking about the ex-Cosford airframe :think: If at all possible, that little tinker would/should be painted in lovely yellow primer considering how it is to be displayed :k:
No, I was refering to the Sultan's ex personal Transport. And you're quite right about the internal fitting clashing with the BA livery - I don't think BA's first class ever stretched to that extent of luxury!! :shock:
