Pants :p .

John.

The wings on her are an uncut set which were acquired post Rossington.

Thanks David, I seem to remember having a conversation with the chaps there and could not remember for sure if she had a set of un-cut wings fitted or not.

Regards,

John.

Running an APU in your garage – not so good, putting your hand in the way of the exhaust – dang insane!!!!!.

John.

One of the Rossington Lightning’s, it was rescued just as the shovel of a JCB was crashing through her spine (the damage has been repaired) I cannot remember if the wings were cut on her for transport.

Any spare me 14K ? 😀 😀 .

Regards,

John.

You should be made to sit through it again and again and again until your side are well and truely split :p .

An hilariously funny film that I never get bored of watching, lines like ‘listen Batguano if that is your name’ and ‘gentlemen you can’t fight in here this is the war room’ 😀 😀 😀 .

John.

Blow me !!! this could spiral into a return to flight thread :p :p .

John.

MJR

Nice thoughts but just reading your post racks up the pound signs, you are right he is a scrappy but dealing in cars and vans only and there is no cover on site to work under.

When I was there he has only basic machinery i.e. fork lift and cutting torch, the site to me doesn’t seem to have a high turnover of buisness putting money at a premium, the council who are getting ‘tired’ of this ‘eyesore’ will not entertain the idea that it could be restored to gate guard condition, some suit will probably pipe up and question the planning permision side of things which would incour further costs.

Lookng at the airframe there is not ONE access pannel left and IIRC that is about 100 pannels all together!!, wheels, tyres, radome, canopy, ailerons, rudder, all may be available but at what cost and timescale? by the time you have finished you could easily talk 5K in parts alone, with regards to the belly tank it is smashed through where the airframe colapsed on the supportng frame.

One big thing is the wings, they were cut INSIDE the main undercarriage and they offer NO support to the airframe, to get her stood properly alone would require wings off and some major structural work to be done.

Ok so lets think in real terms, if it realy did take three weeks for him and a couple of co-worker like you say, in wages (he would have to pay them!) that would be about £300 per week for three people = £2700

Parts – begged, borrowed, loaned, bought then you could look at anothe 2K

Paint – not clear on this one so I think you could easily bust 500 qud on a roller job

Others – for fibreglass, filler, ally sheeting and anything else then easily 500 again

Wings – removal and re-aligning and re-welding (specialist ally welding) at a guess 500 to 1000 maybe.

So conservativley speaking you could do it for around 6-7k, that is money out of his pocket, after all that what benefit would it do for his buisnes??, it didn’t help A1 Comercials that much (they went bust).

Consider this though, as a scrap dealer which would you rather do, pay out 6-7k to re-build her or scrap her and earn 2K in the hand?.

Regards,

John.

Newark have a wing section too.

Hell I missed that one, oh well suppose I will just have to go back for another look!!!!! 🙂 .

Regards,

John.