TwinOtter23, Thank you for that explanation, very good, I have a better understanding.
As a small aside, I often think about my particular interest, post war civil airliners, and the fact that a few have “slipped through the preservation net”, whilst I would be the first to agree that not everything can, or will, be saved for the future, do you good people, in museums, look into those aircraft that are going out of service at the moment, both civil and military, and consider whether to invest in an exanple now, rather than leave it untill they become rare or virtually unobtainable, and by then very expensive ?
The more I think about these things, the more I can see how difficult your jobs are ! Oh for a view into the future ! Keith.
Has the age of the internet made any difference in helping identify airframes and saving them?
Take the 748’s at Blackpool for example – say someone said you can preserve any one you want. I guarantee that straight away people would be on the likes of google and other information resources and with maybe 30 minutes come back and say G-BEJD as its last surviving mk.1. Go back say 20 years and how long would it have taken to reach the same conclusion? The fact that she is the last remaining mk.1 and is quietly rotting at Blackpool though maybe highlights some fine tuning is still needed…… :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Jon
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