Viscount, I posted that link from my phone without having the chance to look through it through its entirety.
Have a look here mate
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivors.php
Might be worth an ask over on fighter control mate.
A servicable front throttle box will be fairly hard to aquire I suspect, not impossible though….
I think it’s an ex sim cockpit chris, probably from Leeming or Coningsby. Simon Pulford has the other one I think.
Quite – whilst I mourn Concorde’s passing, I really don’t think we need another project that drains all the potential resource from other heritage projects.
I also deplore the idea of multiple airframes mounted above major rivers – the airframes will last a fast five minutes….
Bruce
This sums it up perfectly for me too. Seems odd they’ve found someone to invest potentially 36 million into something that will generate little or no return. Does this mystery donor actually exist I find myself asking……
The return to flight program is quite simply unviable without £100 million+ worth of funding, and almost as unviable with the funding!
Loving the updates as ever guys!
Randomly I’m on a course at Cosford at the moment and went round the museum at lunch to kill time. Spent a while looking at the victor, and when I poked my hear in the nose gear bay, spotted a spare tyre nesting there! Centre of this pic.
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Wonder if they would let you have it………
Love a good resto thread! Best of luck!
APU, control unit, Port uc door, brake units, mainwheels and EHP amongst the latest spares obtained for 145
Need leads on a battery or at least what one looks like
Lives in the forward bit of the nose u/c bay if I remember HTF right matt….
Jet?
Hawker Typhoon?
Used by Royal Navy?
A wonderful story, thanks for sharing it with us! Look forward to seeing the photo.
She was unbolted, I’ve seen photos somewhere on the net recently, will have a dig. As for her being sold, not a rumour I’ve heard.
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Bottom of this page here shows her being dismantled.