I’ve just been discussing this subject off-line with another volunteer at Newark and would venture two further options to be debated.
Option 3: Before airframes are offered via the tender process give serious consideration to reasoned and well funded applications for airframes or groups of airframes. I understand that such an approach was recently made for a group of training airframes, which was not successful. This could have eliminated the cost of the whole tendering process and given MOD a return on their investment.
The fourth option is perhaps a little too radical and as a UK tax payer I’ll agree that it might not be an ideal option, but why not give it an airing anyway.
Option 4: Offer airframes on a loan basis to properly constituted museums / groups. This would follow a similar approach to several of the Scandinavian Governments who for example have placed the Safir, Draken and Viggen on long-term ‘cultural’ loan to Newark.
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