Duly signed, come on folks get ya name on it before its too late. Its about time this country learned to look after its heritage instead of destroying it. Bex

You’ve got a bit of ‘the grass is greener’ going on there Bex. 😉 It’s not all roses down under.

The empty half of the glass contains a massive expenditure in the 1990s to utterly fail to develop a national aviation museum and policy; lots of money for suits and brochures, not a red cent to preserving aircraft or heritage.

And just don’t ask about the preservation of RAAF Point Cook, the airfield.

However it’s clear that Qantas provide an illuminating contrast to BA, with the retrieval of a 707 from the other side of the globe and the establishment and maintainance of a museum (Longreach) by Qantas, and the scrapping 0f a 707 and effective destruction of the BA collection at Cosford by BA. Y’know, I don’t think you’d believe it if someone had made it up. Hmmm.

JDK, well ok this is a case of dont believe everything u read or see in the media. I had no idea about past failures, but look at this way, Qantas seems to value its history and is actively doing something about it, BA, well lets face it the whole world saw that BA’s main interest was money not aircraft (Concorde). I know one thing though, if I ever manage to save the cash for a trip to Oz, then Longreach here i come. Bex

Hmm I should have known Rob LoL but if my former employers had been a bit more generous last week after trashing my life & career Id be owning it by now but just got enough to pay a few debts and treat WH773 to a few bits. Mind u would mind the complete Jag or Sea Harrier from Everetts though. Bex

TY rent a wreck springs to mind LoL Bex

Long Marston has a little triangle with some aircraft in it, next to the “drunk” Cranberry is a big un, would I be right in saying thats a Shack minus 2 engines? Bex

Yak, right im with u now, soz had a bad day, went to gatwick to work on said Canberra and found her bum down nose up thanks to the wind the last few days. Bex

Several photos here of VH-XBA arriving at Dublin from Southend on 8 December:

http://www.irishairpics.com/database/search.php?q=VH-XBA&u=reg

Some cracking photos, thanks for the link. Ok stupid question time now how come the Aussies can get their hands on a huge airframe get it going and fly it half way round the world? EG the Connie and now a 707, how come we in the UK struggle to cope with our sillyvillian aviation heritage? Answers on a postcard folks!!! :diablo:

Bex