The VC10 at Cosford is that it is the last remaining civil Standard VC10 in an airliner guise. Once we scrap that we’re never getting that back.
The Trident is a Trident 1 I think, similarly scarce. So why scrap that one then?
Same goes for the Viscount, also an early model.
The 707 is Conway powered, rare variant that was produced specifically for BOAC, probably also a single or rare survivor.
This, I think means absolutely ****** all to some of the fools that control the destiny of these aircraft. All I can say is:
Last Vulcan B1: Scrapped
Last Victor B1: Scrapped
And probably a few more that you all could point out.
Reading the statement issued about the collection being ‘incomplete without concorde’ is absolute bull****. If it is BA causing all this, as Mr Francis states, if they HAD sent a Concorde there to complete the collection, would that possibly be getting bulldozed into a pile of unrecognizable scrap? Or, if it’s Cosford, which I believe it is, they are carrying on like a spoilt child who, because he never got the big prezzie at Christmas (one of the Concordes), destroys all his other nice ones. I think with this Cold War Exhibition, with the majority now going inside, I don’t think they want to be associated with them anymore. My opinion, but that is what I think. What I would say for certain is that these little beauties won’t be here for very long…
I need to go and type an e-mail to BA and the RAFM me thinks… 😡
I think we all do….
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