why there’s nothing left in it !! it sits on its tail because the radar equipment was nicked !!
As far as cockpit sections go she is a fairly good starting point!, I have seen much, much worse dragged out from the depths of a scrapyard and lovingly restored into award winning cockpits.
As for the tail sitting, she was cut inboard of the wings when moved to Balderton, the mainwheels were not safe anymore so they fabricated a support frame under the ventral tank, the fuselage still contains all the internals, engines, inter pipes and jet pipes and weighs a fair bit!.
As time went on and parts were stolen the weight forced the frame through the ventral tanks and she sank back on her tail, all she is good for now is nose section for salvage and then scrap the rest, all the internals would now just be boxes of dust!.
There are no doubt ‘some’ salvageable spare in the fuselage but whoever takes her on would have to have large pots of cash even just to cut her and remove from site.
It is a crying shame she went that way but she never got the best start when they chopped the wings the way they did, you just can’t save them all.
Regards,
John.
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