I guess at least she is being spares recovered and not pummeled to death like 391..
No offence but which ever way you slice it she is still being pummelled to death:( .
It is good to see that all usable spares are going to other projects but this is still no justification for her scrapping, IMHO the TVOC are not relying on this source of spares for 558’s flying career, it is merely a bonus to have extra spares should anything go tech during the air show season.
I have thought long and hard about my initial statement ‘the men in suits should hang their heads in shame’ and I still stand by it.
After visiting several museums and seeing the condition of some of the very limited numbers of Vulcan’s that are on public display I feel that the potential for 603’s future could have been ranked as one of the most hopeful.
Woodford has all the resources and manpower to make something of her at comparatively very little cost, could she not have been towed closer to the perimeter fence and then the fence brought in behind her so that public access was not governed by Woodford security?, this would no doubt have attracted more volunteers and almost guaranteed her future.
Also if H&S was an issue it is only because the Heritage Group were working from ‘unsafe’ ladders, this again comes directly from Woodford unwillingness to help, they could have no doubt donated or loaned some suitable staging and training at very little or no cost that would have assured that the H&S bods would have been happy.
I am also thinking of the wider implications of what is going on here, what if other sites follow suit?, I am thinking firstly of the superb Aviation Collection at Boscombe Down, there are over twenty cockpit sections and complete airframes that are incredibly significant, these are stored and worked on in one of the vacant HAS’s by volunteers.
What if the ‘suits’ at Boscombe Down followed Woodford’s example and suddenly decided to refuse them access due to H&S reasons and then scrapped everything?.
It’s plainly obvious to me that whoever is in charge at Woodford has simply turned their back on 603 a while ago and knowingly let her get in this state so that removal/scrapping is the only option only to say in the next board meeting ‘I have solved this issue and saved a few bob’ to the collective cheers and back slapping.
Sorry if my views are not all ‘pc’ but I’m sure some will agree, It stinks:mad: .
Kindest regards,
John.
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