This is quite incredible John.

They are indeed very generous to encourage you this way.

Could I ask what survives (if at all) in the way of wing sections/components?

I found the program very moving and have huge gratitude to you Cees, your team, and everyone who worked so hard to honour these brave men.

I thank God for you all.

I think an Anson MK1 would be my personal choice as a project, but certainly enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting. 
 

Prop-Strike, I had no idea there were so many Blenheim/Bolingbroke’s around!

It looks strangely like part of a side rear bubble canopy for a Catalina.

I would guess that accuracy is a difficult thing to portray unless it is a snapshot. 
Films tend to draw people to the action element in my opinion but in reality it was very different.

I say this because my Grandfather made it his business to tell me ‘as it was’.
His view was that by telling people how tragic war is then people might think twice about having another one.

In the trenches during WW1, he said that there were long periods of time of total boredom interspersed with short periods of utter terror.

He recalled seeing ‘fabric covered machines’ falling out of the sky, looking after his freezing men by rubbing whale oil into their feet to prevent ‘trench foot’, laying duck boards over a quagmire of mud and with the ongoing threat of being gassed. They urinated in buckets and were ordered to soak a cloth in them in case of attack to slap it over their face if it happened.

He said that little things became big things. 
He recalled that they were  under a shelter in the trenches. He prepared his breakfast one morning and a shell landed on top causing the roof to partially collapse. 
He was outraged that he lost his breakfast! 
His batsman arrived and Grandad always remembered his first two words “Oh Sir”!

He was awarded an MC for showing great courage in the face of enemy fire.

He recalls leading his men down the side of a devastated wood and spotting a violet growing through the mud. Astonished to see this, he lowered himself down to take a look. A sniper shot at him at the same time but killed the chap behind him.

War is evil personified.

I’ve never seen a film that comes anywhere close to his descriptions which are too gruesome to write here.

I did hear that veterans who watched Saving Private Ryan thought this came close to the horrors they saw.

it’s so important to protect the freedoms they fought for.

I did make efforts to save it myself but the logistics, costs, and other factors made it impossible. Thankfully the research beforehand saved any serious financial outlay.

There may be others who have/will succeed but for me it was not possible.

Ah – BAPC – I do remember them. I had no idea that they had changed their name :-).

I’ve written to the present owners of the Beverley this evening to gauge their heart for its future.

I genuinely believe that they would could consider almost any option rather than see it scrapped.

Let’s hope so.

I really liked the comment at the bottom of the link you gave above by Teddy Penn when he said “It should be remembered that at the time we had no thought that we might be preserving the last of the line. It was all done for fun and the poetry of moving the Beverley into Beverley”.

My late Father used to say that you can’t eat an elephant in one go, but you can in many bites! You get the gist!

Can we bat a few ideas around for a moment – and please feel free to add to them – no matter how strange you think they are :).

When I used to visit museums, they had parts of aircraft on display. Parting out the Beverley – an aileron or flap here and a fin/rudder there etc means that collections have something else of interest whilst preserving a manageable section. the ‘Condition’ would be that if and when a moment arrived where it could be reassembled then the museum releases that part back to the project. That possible idea might reduce significantly the challenge.

Marks helpful analysis brings some clarity to the possible options whereby the project could become manageable.

No idea can be too ‘off the wall’. It crossed my mind as an example that Airship Industries are able to lift 50 tons. A Beverley weighs 35. Without engines etc then a lot less. That would be a headline for them! A lot of ‘if’s’ and ‘but’s’ which may come to nothing or lead to something else – but at least we can say we tried!

In closing, I reflect on a true story in Alaska. Ice built up on power lines to the point that they snapped leading to power outages. People were invited to share ideas to overcome the problem. Someone suggested paying locals to hang meat on the electricity poles so that bears would shake them as they tried to get the meat. Then someone suggested that this was unreliable and that the meat should be flown out by helicopter. This led to the idea that helicopters flew low over the power lines to blow the ice from the power lines and that idea was adopted to this day.