was it one of the famous Tony Chung airframes or was it being sold in one of its three other guises to four different people ??.

Mike E:diablo::diablo::diablo:

Is that not YA-YAA it was flying but had a mishap (ground loop I think) and had to have some extensive work to put it back into the air ??.

The only other one that could fly if 30113 that we had negotiated to buy but the authorities have put a block on any further restorations of the type or even export !!!.

before I forget you need to sort a budget even with lots of good will and help and making stuff up from scratch and obscure material it still cost in the region of £24k to put the RBL spit together.Aluminium sheet and box section etc is not cheap and you will go through a lot of it !!!!.
We will help with advice and patterns if we can but you will have to do the rest I am sure guys on here Like Bruce will be able to help you out with instruments etc to fill the gaps and you can buy instrument panels ready done or you can get the drawing and make your own (fraction of the price).

Mike E

Needs English Heritage badgering, otherwise we would have been badgering German Heritage.

well said that just about sums it up.I think we should push hard to ensure that the original AVRO Hangar is preserved in some way and moved to a site where it will be preserved if need be.This must be one of the very few hangars of this period left after the ones at Hooton Park and must surely warrant being Listed by English heritage.A grading of 1 or 2 would ensure its safety for the long term.

It is disgusting that it may be pulled down and I for one would support a petition to the local authority and English heritage if need be .

I do not know the process for raising one on line as i must confess to being a computer illiterate. We had a big push and fund raise on this forum to save one of the last HS748 aircraft.So in the same vein lets do something to make people aware of the plight of this piece of history. Lets have a campaign to save this hangar for posterity not a landfill !!!!!!.

Just one example I am not advocating this as a solution but just a for if; Elvington are looking for and trying to fund raise for a new hangar to go next to their main one.A historic hangar would be very nice in place and used for its purpose historic aircraft.If nothing could be found or done. Willing to put time in to help with any moving dismantling if it ever got that far.

Mike E

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.webs.com

Re the told you so comment I am sorry if it offended but a number of us at the time call us sceptics made similar comments as we have heard this sort of thing before from developers and planners who then don’t keep to agreements and promises because it does not meet there financial targets.

Back to the Heritage centre guys and girls.
Its very sad if they are to be squeezed into the fire station area as initially as I understand from one of the guys involved they had been promised the original AVRO Hangar on the very far side of the field to the back of the Flight sheds area that had been used originally when I was there many moons ago by the gliding club.

It seems again the plans for the “Heritage”of woodford to be preserved are being kicked in the goolies in the name of money.I had been told they had offers of a number of exhibits and things looked very good for a heritage centre tracing the sites history and key role during WW2 and since.

As I said if anyone knows the site the factory fire station next to the Vulcan is very restricted and does not give them much to use.If it was the modern Fire station area out on the airfield flight shed side of the runway then they would have a more user friendly site allbeit modern and not the historic area we had understood they had been promised.

A very worrying trend on historic airfields I understand a couple of other sites where developers have promised space for heritage museums etc .they have gone back on their word .

I do hope they rethink the plan and allow the guys working hard at Woodford to have the old AVRO hangar as originally promised even if it probably will end being the only part of the site to survive at least it will be something to show what this very historic site once was and what it contributed to the defense of the nation.

I think it should be law that planners and developers have to take into consideration a historic sites significance and that something has to be done large or small to record on site the facts by either some form of monument or museum heritage/visitors centre.

Mike E

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.webs.com

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

early on in this thread when things first mentioned about JC Bamford calling themselves Hertiage to get the go ahead to purchase the site.I seem to recall making the comment that they only wanted it for housing and it was dismissed.

Sorry to say I told you so !!!!! JCB used the Heritage name as an in and dont give a toss about the real heritag eof the site only pound signs. !!!!!

Mike E:diablo::diablo::diablo::diablo: