I havent see the report but my last visit to Lyneham August 2010 I did a close walk around Saggy and felt she is in pretty good shape the RAF did a good job on the exterior (I have 30 + years in aviation engineering RAF, BA, Monarch, BAe and Marshalls) interior wise is a different matter with mould and mildew, a steam clean and replace the floor beams with marine ply and you will have a good workable base to start but again not as bad as the comet at Cosford (if you look close at that aircraft it IMHO is in worse shape than SAGGY)
the other factor is this is still an operation base and currently have a specialist team on site carefully taking the old C130K’s to bits. I read NAM had set aside some monies to purchase the Nimrod
I can’t help feeling some one is missing a trick here, a museum if it plays it right they could get a bargain basement Comet and the money saved could go to help restore her ??
1. you have the RAF engineering personell who could dismantle saggy (They leave May)
2. The specialist team currently moving hercs might be willing to help move saggy for a nominal fee (don’t know till you ask as they say ??)(Again they leave soon)
even after the aircraft reaches the ‘Museum’ while it is in bits a proper assessment could be made I am sure if saggy can make the journey she can be restored. The feedback I am getting so far is “We have looked at the report, we have not physically seen the aircraft so based on that we are not interested”
Mike
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