I cannot see how it effects preservation in anyway. The Lightning was dismantled in the space of week by a team of RAF engineers and enthusiast’s. The knowledge to move a Lightning by dismantling it has always been there. It might be a skilled task but I would wagger any enthusiastic amateur with a knowledge of how it’s taken apart
could do it. Certainly the Haydon Baille machines were taken apart before storage – the machine presented to Grimsby was similarily take apart.
The offer within the RAF was to use a circular saw – the members of 11 squadron were told how it could be done and got on with it. It has no bearing on what has been done in the past in preservation .

Absolutely, The saudi Lightnings are a prime example, The knowledge was there, and they were taken apart by chaps supplied by Haiden Baille, all enthusiasts, not RAF engineers, and were taken apart properly, to every last nut and bolt, without cutting a single bolt or part of the fuselage, despite the aircraft sitting outside for 4 years. They were also taken apart outside, not in a hangar. Moving Lightnings does not have to mean wielding a circular saw, There are at least a dozen chaps in the Lightning fraternity, that would rally round and give up time to take apart a Lightning to be moved,if required.

MJR

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