Unfortunately most of us here don’t read the NZ papers. Could you possibly provide a link?

Hurry up and finish it please. I’m currently sitting in my office 200 yards from the end of the runway at its new home, watching the spam cans fly over and wishing there was a Spitfire in the circuit.

They are 🙁

The unmistakable tones of Rob Reider

http://robreider.com/

You were lucky to see it Rob, I think it has spent most of the time in storage for the past few years

That’ll keep Andy busy for a decade or three! 🙂

That’s okay. It is a relatively minor type in the scheme of things. The Victor, arguably a much more significant type, which served on for nearly a decade after the Vulcan retired, has far fewer examples preserved, and we don’t hear the angst that continually surrounds the Vulcan for some reason. The same with the Lancaster, with only four preserved examples in the UK. If we are only left with the IWM Vulcan and one of the RAF Museum pair in a few years, that’s plenty to represent the type.

And why dispose of a nicely-restored Ju-52 and retain an unrestored Casa 2111 that requires years of work and many tens of thousands spending on it to make a presentable exhibit? And why dispose of a Sea Venom ‘because the type saw no combat use’ (it did, in Suez) in favor of a Sea Vixen (which didn’t)?