Mizpah, we have a dozen usually through the gates daily, weekends are busier, but not by much. We only charge 3 quid to get in simply because of the lack of facilities on site! The average punter will spend an hour at the most here – again, lack of facilities! We need a cafe…..
Paying customers just about cover the running costs, but all restoration is done out of our own pockets usually. There has been a cash injection on a regular basis from Ghost HAunted due to their regular ghost watches on site.
http://www.ghosthaunted.co.uk
We are forging ahead with EXTERNAL restorations in a bid to make the aircraft presentable, as well as doing the groundwork for better facilities and a tidier site. One of the main problems is lack of manpower. The Vulcan guys have explicit instructions to stay on the Vulcan in a hope that it will get done! The rest of us are working on everything else – there are half a dozen of us in total…..
Livewirex – you must have either spoke to Billy (baseball cap) or Steve C (long girly hair), and neither of them told me anyone was looking for me…. Nice of you to drop in though! At least you have seen first hand the enormous task ahead of us…..
Quick update -A stand has been constructed thanks to our newest member, Paul, ready for the section of R100 Airship. I’d been tripping over it since I first went to NEAM and never realised what it was…. Now it will have its own stand and information!
I started to polish the F86 ready for the nose art:
1:sand down panel with decreasing grades of wet+dry to remove 60 years worth of scratches….
2: Polish to a mirror finish..
I did 4 panels today….. its going to take a while……
The Canberra will be moved on Saturday as will the Lightning – the jetpipes are going to help a running Lightning. (Cranberry is just being pulled forward to allow us to move a few other aircraft about…)
The Evening Chronicle newspaper paid us a visit today for an article in TOMORROWs paper! Yours Truely and Semi-Hogg will be pictured (pretending to work!)
And Millom – NO!:D
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