🙂

No, I mean that they will be worried about the possibility of getting sued and the adverse publicity they will get if the aircraft crashes into an orphanage, after first ploughing through an old peoples’ home and a convent. The chances of any aerospace company releasing drawings for such a project are somewhere around zero.

At least wait until the RAF unveil their commemorative scheme before you start knocking it.

Sorry, who has decreed that there is no BoB anniversary special scheme Typhoon for this year? A lot of conclusions being jumped to here.

There already is one, at Pima!

Lightning, Shackleton, JP, Jaguar, Tornado (albeit an ex-Luftwaffe one), several Harriers, Kestrel, Bolingbroke, Vampire, Hurricane, Hunter, Gnat, plus a Viscount. Not to mention providing a home for several of Duxford’s numerous recent cast-offs 🙂

I’m not sure where you get that idea from. I went a few months back and once you get a ticket that’s it, the only extra charge was for (pre-booked) slots to go in the Vulcan cockpit. And I wouldn’t call £15 ‘ridiculously expensive’ – it is less than public entry to Duxford on a non-flying day.

although as a static presumably there must be an approved repair scheme.

Approved repair schemes are for airworthy aircraft, as a static there is nothing to stop you welding in a bit of angle iron or nailing it together with a couple of lengths of 4×2

The former G-DAKS lives at Dunsfold, still with Aces High. It has been placed on the U.S. Register to make it easier to operate.