Damien B,

Tut tut tut what do you mean “any notion of a collection policy raises a smile”.

They have a collecting policy that is to preserve and display carrier aircraft. Its obvious to all isnt it? After all they even acquired the most famous carrier aircraft of all time recently. Concorde.

Cheers TT. Not as nice looking as the HArvard/AT6/Texan (or whichever name you want to call it) but still a pretty looking thing.

I maybe wrong but I believe it is. I think an opposition magazine did a feature on the museum last month and in the article it stated that the museum felt the aircraft didnt fit in with their collection and would be willing to let it go if I meant the aircraft could be preserved better. In the statement used, it said something along the lines of the salty air wasnt aiding preservation of the airframe.

Always seemed a strange aircraft to let out of the country in my opinion. Pretty rare beast.

Lookin at the MAM VAmpire F1 on sat and what ever was done to her in the 70’s certainly helped. Shes in really good condition. Especially when you consider she was outside as a Gate Guardian for a number of years.

Cheers for answering that Bruce. I guess in some ways modern timber preservatives will help?, but and the big but is that it is a wooden pod and by its very nature wood is labour intensive to care for and troublesome in poor weather.

Lets hope that the olive drab they use this time is something a little more realistic in colour this time. The pure green she has worn in recent years has spoilt her looks.

Shame a new colour scheme couldnt have been chosen. But….. at least she is still flyin and thats the main point.

Im at work now so cant confirm the book I extracted the info from but it is a very well regarded book on the history of the BBMF. Its a great read and if anyone is interested let me know and I can put the title and author on the thread later.

In years gone by the Lancaster went through major services more reg than it does now. Thats why the colour scheme changes have slowed down somewhat in recent years.

I thought PM-M2 was worn for longer than one season. I may be wrong as im more a Spitfire fan. But I will be honest and say that Ive never seen her wear or seen pics of her with DR-M codes on. Love to see the pic CDP206.

Its the great thing about this forum theres always someone with new information even if it does prove you wrong.

Unfort im stuck in rugby working while my buddy the original poster RobMAc will be stood waiting to seeher come in. NOT FAIR.