Durham Tees Fire dump

ah right, hopefully speaking to the fire crews this week to get a look down there, we were just looking for heli’s to be honest, as it isnt for NEAM 🙂

LL, any ideas if there are any helicopters on the site? as we thought we could see the rotor head of maybe a dragonfly on one of those photo’s?? and heard roumor of a whirlwind there?

There is a whilwind there, but it is little more than a burnt out shell. No tail boom, no u/c, just the basic fuselage structure. There are no remenants of any mag alloy left, so you can imagine the state of it. It is beyond redemption. No Dragonfly parts that we identified. Even the Shorts 330 is completely shot. The Tomahawk which was on site was burnt and cleared last year.

My advice would be to negotiate for a full Trident or cockpit section.

LL, any ideas if there are any helicopters on the site? as we thought we could see the rotor head of maybe a dragonfly on one of those photo’s?? and heard roumor of a whirlwind there?

Only one of the Tridents is worth saving. When I was there negotiating to save the Viscount (which eventually went to NEAM via Millom) I had a good look over all the airframes on site. The firefighters have rescued most of the instrumentation and internal fittings, and one even has a full cockpit in his loft (albeit in boxes). They are a pleasant bunch, willing to discuss preservation of the aircraft. Helpful and sympathetic to the preservationists needs.