and TT stop mucking about with my posts otherwise i will find you another dirty job to do………..something involving oil or paint stripper……

anyway i went flying in a genuine D-Day Dak and you never….nah,nah,nah,nah,nah…..so there

forgot to say please

There are 2 sides [or more] to any conversation,some posts are optimistic,some pessimistic,some realistic but all have thier points and are valid.
Next June will prove which group are nearly correct.
Perhaps we ought to start a sweepstake and the monies go to something like Sally B.

send the money to a nice blue beech 18

no more comments from me

sorry, i forgot to say please send money to a nice blue beech 18

please

http://www.beechrestorations.com

OK, form an orderly line behind the moderator

And yes…..Very WELL DONE to LPG………..it ain’t easy is it guys……

when i said form a line behind the moderator, i didn’t say which one………nominations on a postcard please to TEXANTOMCAT

I am In fear of reaping a tirade of anti philip comments if i say what i really feel about the Vulcan thing

I think you are right mate, it is gonna cost a heck of a lot more to finish it.

just a quick calculation

25 chaps (there are 25 clocking in cards in the hanger)
8 hours per man per day
5 days per week
lets say £90.00 per hour (bit of a guess here but we charge £50 here at work and i know that is cheap………..anyway lets use £90.00 per hour for arguments sake. someone could always plug in the real figure at some point)

so £90 x 8 x 5 x 25 = £90,000 per week x 4 = £360,000 per month
£2,730,000/£360,000 = 7.5 months

so assuming they don’t have any of their own money in the bank, the lottery money will run out in 7.5 months………this also assumes they don’t buy anything…..it also assumes No expenses for the workers…..are they going back and forwards each day from cambridge or are they going into digs…….either way more money.

they do have some of their own money………they had to raise 28% of the lottery grant so i think they raised about £765,000……….that is about another 2 months work for marshalls….

I think they need millions more to do this…..don’t get me wrong, I applaud what they are trying to do and i with the project every success, but it is a bit bonkers when they are trying to screw their investors for another fiver like that.

I could continue to rant but it would be construde as sour grapes cus we are out of the hanger now………a 10 year restoration project on a CAA aircraft, so close to completion now outside in the weather………….hhmmmmm

Anyway andy and Rlangham, you can come and sit in my plane if you wanna………..no charge guys……ooops, that wasn’t marketing was it…..i haven’t learnt anything from my marketing mentor TT

Finally, a quick heads up…..on or around 22nd or 23rd September, Another Beech 18 will be arriving at Bruntingthorpe as a resident aircraft…..no guys, not another restoration project…….a tri-gear volpar modified airworthy Beech from the States….should be with us for about 2 years….

She is coming over the greenland-Iceland-Scotland route……..more details as i get it will be posted as a separate thread.

Plan is to have a Beech formation team.

PT

Yawn