‘Fully restored’ would mean a lot a new metal going in, so wouldn’t be worthwhile.

Disagree completely. Look at how Bluebird Project have reused almost all the metal available in their full resto of Donald Campbell’s boat.

I bet they do the same with the Barracuda. Aluminium can be worked back into shape.

The second series was to have featured the Constellation now in the Science Museum’s Wroughton collection. It would have been made capable of ground-running but not airworthy.

Much of Airline was filmed at Blackpool Airport – I have some photos of the Dakotas there somewhere!

PML had a plain white tail, though it does have that brush-painted look that yours has. Plenty of pix online if you google the reg.

>>Seeing the Concorde there reminds me of the ‘Concorde to the Sky’ group.

They were another organisation with a hugely ambitious vision. I must check their website to see how they are getting on.

If things are still on track, we should be seeing a Concorde over the Olympic opening ceremony.<<

There never was any chance of this happening. The sheer weight of legal, political and technical obstacles meant the “Save Concorde” group’s plans were not even worth considering. All these well-meaning but hapless folk did was raise a lot of false hopes – including yours, it seems.

There’s only one way a Concorde would fly again – if Airbus deems it necessary.

You might see an Olympus-owered delta at the Olympics, but it’ll be rather older and slower…

Good excuse to paint it white though!

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>>why did the wing break off.<<

A result of the starboard outer engine fire that brought W1048 down. I don’t think it was recovered.

Exceptional work as always, Matthias – your workshop is cleaner than any British hospital 😉