Like this, you mean?

A few more from Branscombe: –

It’s a matter of “Artistic License”. It’s your photo, do what you want.

But keep the original, just in case you want to make something else out of it.

Kev has used your words Rob. Whose statement is ludicrous?

Yours!

Rob, whilst your statement is correct, there’s a threshold amount where your risk assessment indicates a greater chance of successful completion. You shouldn’t start ripping things apart before that point is reached.

There are other taxiable Vulcan’s Robbo. This was the only one that could most probably have been put into the air. The decision to strip her down was, no doubt, based on the fact that they had to know for sure.

Even if it could not have been reassembled, the majority of the bits and pieces could, and most probably would, have been spread around the other Vulcan projects.

Unless someone has a bottomless pit of money to hand over

And let us be brutally honest here, too. If I had a bottomless pit of money – although I would hand over a goodly wedge, there are other, equally – if not more – desserving things to do on a charitable basis.

We’ve done all this before – fund raising will go on throughout the whole of XH558’s ENTIRE life – flying and when, eventually, grounded.

There are no “smoke and mirrors” about this, it is a fact. Unless someone has a bottomless pit of money to hand over, fund raising will always be a part of any restoration project!

Come on, let’s be sensible and not keep raising this ludicrous “fund raising” issue.

In which domain would you consider the best way of capturing extremely long distance deep space shots?

Well, if you want to take photographs of objects over huge distances, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you’ll find they are all captured in the digital domain these days.

There is a reason for this – digital CAN be more sensitive than analogue, when applied in the right way. The cost of that extreme sensitivity will eventually fall and become more and more available to domestic purchasers as time goes by.

Or is this an irrelevance? Perhaps because it is the actual presentation of the image to the sensor (of either analogue or digital type) that makes the difference.