Perranporth Airfield Spitfire development discussion

There might also be room at the same facility to unpack the hessian-wrapped Lancaster. And maybe that Sunderland from some lake or other? And isn’t there an aircraft cemented into the wall of a Croydon factory, too?

………and don’t forget the Chinese Stirling – or is that what Kermit Weeks has acquired!

At least as taxpayers we wont be forking out for this Project.
Some may as individuals and thats up to them.

…or the 2012 London Olympics!! Or just about any other “plan” you can think of. Which is why we know that any of the proposed new London airports will actually cost double the estimated figures. ( I wonder what happened to the penalty clauses of my youth…)

All of which does not make the Spitfire project any less of a joke.

The document is a “Project Plan” and as such will no doubt have been drawn up by people without any input of reality. This is normal with such plans and I have seen many where unrealistic timescales are included as are unrealistic costs. The person controlling the plan I have found has totally lost track with reality and their only aim, (on which their bonus is based) it meeting a target. It does not matter how impossible the target may be it has to be met. (or you just revise the plan and tell everyone that everything is “on plan”.
For those that would like to waste many hours reading about major projects handled in such a way I would reccomend that you google “The Scottsh Parliament Building”
“Scheduled to open in 2001, it did so in 2004, more than three years late with an estimated final cost of £414 million, many times higher than initial estimates of between £10m and £40m.”
or for something thats still ongoing the “Edinburgh Tram” saga.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams
Its enough to make you weep.

Ooo, couldn’t they base The People’s Mosquito there too? The timeframe looks just about right!

There might also be room at the same facility to unpack the hessian-wrapped Lancaster. And maybe that Sunderland from some lake or other? And isn’t there an aircraft cemented into the wall of a Croydon factory, too?

James May has already made one, anyway…

£58k sounds like an awfully tall order for a Tupperware Spitfire……>

You are going to also need a pretty big bedroom and some structural work,
if you want to hang it from your ceiling. :rolleyes:

As I said on the other thread you cannot begin to compare the two prospecti – the Spitfire one just covers every eventuality and every conceivable area of doubt. I fear TPM have a lot of work to do!!

Ooo, couldn’t they base The People’s Mosquito there too? The timeframe looks just about right!

:D:D

Disappointing to see a note of seriousness introduced to this topic!!:p

I know.

Its a dangerous route. Has been know to lead to people being banned, you know!

Disappointing to see a note of seriousness introduced to this topic!!:p

Curious that the SHT link no longer works.

What I am interested to know is whether there is some formal link or involvement ‘twixt SHT and the Burmese project?

The SHT publicity seems to indicate very strongly that there is a very definite tie-up, and previous comments attributed to Mr Cundall in the news media very firmly gave that impression, too.

On the grapevine I am hearing that the Burmese project may have no formal connection with the SHT/Cornwall project and have possibly now ‘distanced’ themselves from it.

Perhaps that is why the SHT web page was pulled?

In Cornwall you can get really big tubs of clotted cream from the supermarkets for a sensible price but up here in Suffolk it costs an arm and a bader for a small pot. That’s just wrong. Luckily it freezes fine so stock up when you go there.

‘Doom’

I am told that there is a local Cornish beer called ‘Doom’. This would seem to be appropriate under these conditions.

Nooo, that’s ‘Doom Bar’, and a very fine way to lubricate the tonsils it is….:diablo:

Don’t time fly. I turned 71 yesterday, 8th of January. Today??? it appears to be 1st of April 😉

I am unclear as to the exact details.

It could well be somebody painted green after an unexpected result from Burma.

But I suspect more likely it will end up with one or more GRP replica naked enthusiasts produced in some nearby Cornish workshop for only a few hundred thousand pounds. The worry being this will hold up work on the replica Spits that will undoubtedly be sourced from the same place.

I am pretty sure you won’t actually be be to ‘hold’ him/her. Don’t forget they will be atop a sizeable step ladder.

Moggy

Thanks Moggy, I thought for a minute they had strayed into the absurd and undermined the serious intention of their prospectus by turning it into some form of nudist ramble rather than a serious business proposal. How foolish of me. Now I know that they are adding to the authenticity of their attraction with a proper, guided, physiological study of the species ‘enthusiasticus horribilus‘ I feel I can take them seriously again. They really have thought of everything.

Do you happen to know:

Will we need to queue to hold him?
Will there be a charge to do so?
Is there a female enthusiast available for holding as well?

In the scheme of how this thread’s finances are worked out 58K is loose change!

‘Aerodrome prepared for (in the raw) enthusiast tours’

I’m a fairly hardy Scotsman, but I don’t know if I’m enough of an enthusiast to want to tour a clifftop airfield in February or any other month ‘in the raw’. Where would you keep the spare battery for your camera for a start?

I think you are misreading it.

These are actually tours of an enthusiast who is in the raw. If you think about it there won’t be a lot to see on the airfield, so this is an ‘attraction’ that can be held indoors.

We still don’t know who he is yet.

Moggy