I think it is champagne time. The conservation will be time consuming and challenging, but it will be an awesome (in all senses of the word) relic. They will create something wonderful. If they can create an exhibit of the power of Maffett’s Hurricane (recovered by Geoff) which is incredibly moving with BoB wall of names and Elgar’s Nimrod then they will have more than succeeded in my opinion.
I hope they can scoop up some of the items that have been recovered over the years. This exhibit could be as powerful as the Mary Rose – where the relics from within are as interesting as the whole airframe.
It has already succeeded in firing the enthusiasms of people who are not as passionate about aviation as us. Including my family.
This thread and a few others amaze my family and other non aviation nuts – they cannot believe that so many people here (who frequent the historic aviation forum) are so negative, glass half empty and criticise the doers and dreamers. It is almost that they want every aviation heritage venture to fail so they can go ‘told you so’ or ‘ha ha’. As a ‘community’, it does us no credit at all.
Again, brilliant work RAFM team!
I agree with your observations Tony, well said..
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