Great idea , East Fortune is too near the Edinburgh flight paths to be any good for opening as a GA and warbird facility , although I would leave the Museum as it is as it’s a pretty good museum .
Opening a new Museum at Prestwick is a great idea , there is plenty room down there , there are a lot of airframe and propulsion engineers working down there and I would bet there would be a few of them who would volunteer for engineering support of the Museum . It’s also very accessible . I wonder if the RAF Museum would loan some of their stored airframes and perhaps they could persuade the Dundonald chaps to move to Prestwick as they have a superb collection of airframes and they are well mantained ( well worth a visit !!) Maybe the guys from Carlisle would move too ?? .
But it will never happen anyway ( unless the lottery people would part with some cash !!!) but we can dream on anyway

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Originally posted by Ant Harrington
Hmmmmmmmmm,interesting Alastair,and more than a bit worrying.If one part of the Museum doesn’t know what the otehr half is doing there’s sure to be problems afoot. ::rolleyes:

My sentiments exactly Ant , I thought this would all change for the better when Dawn left but it I fear not .

Bull5hit , That’s the chap (Bob ) that I spoke to on Saturday the 19th and he told my father-in-law and I that the decision had been made to scrap the Comet but the Vulcan was staying, he told us that both airframes had been surveyed and the Comet was definately being chopped up and the Vulcan restoration work was being put out to tender with a view to preserving her for the future , Grant Newman was on-site too but I never got a chance to speak to him after talking to Mr Leyden , I will be back there this Saturday to have a chat with Mr Leyden.
The main reason I spoke to Mr Leyden was that I mentioned we were supposed to be having a meet-up with Keith Mac and Steve Young etc last weekend , Mr Leyden was a bit miffed that it wasn’t in his diary as Mr Crompton hadn’t told him , the weekend ended up being cancelled as the classroom at EF is still full of builders rubbish . If this is going to be another clash of personalities then the future for the MoF looks bleak .
Come back Adam PLEASE.

I’ve been following this thread for a while now and the most impressive thing is that everybody has their say in an informative , interesting manner and not once has it degenerated into the usual slanging matches and general abuse , are we getting wiser with old age ?????

Great photo SOC , any more of the same beast ??

There is an ex-pat who worked on XM605 for a while getting the 115V systems working so the cockpit lighting , and other bits and bobs working , however due to Museum policy he is no longer allowed to do so , at no time was she considered for use as a test platform , NASA have access to a multitude of test airframes , they wouldn’t consider reviving an airframe they have no spares for , no experience of flying her etc , the rumour was just that I’m afraid , just a rumour.

The ex-Dan Air Comet at East Fortune will be scrapped fairly soon , only the cockpit will be retained as an exhibit , I was round here on Saturday and she looks in good shape , no signs of major corrosion , 2 heaters inside her and 2 dehumidifiers – I wonder what the reasoning is behind scrapping her , as the last Comet in Scotland an effort should be made to retain her.