Sounds just like the voluntary museum sector in the UK! :rolleyes:

Keep up the hard work everyone!! 🙂

1 Venom
2 Sea Venom
3 Night Venom
4 Export Venom
5 Vampire

You know why!!;)

And now I’m off to brush up on my Cold War history, of which I have so little grasp after being an integral part of it for 30 odd years.:D

Happy New Year

(Look forward to reading some more meaningful and interesting replies).

😀 😀 Brilliant – even better than trying to find and ‘Prune’ Lightning negatives! :diablo:

We’ve got two ‘National Benchmark Venoms’ where I volunteer; although Bruce might know where they have more.

http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/aircraftlist.htm

Chox – How can you state that something was an outstanding success if it was never used?

IMHO ‘selective debate’, i.e. move the subject on when answers are provided.

Also, no book on the Venom to get pictures for and a Vulcan one to promote! 😀

Just off to look for my 1973 Lightning pictures from a school visit to Binbrook, Happy New Year. :rolleyes:

Chox,

I presume that you’ve never seen a HLF Contract, let alone signed one!

Before you ask, yes I have [on both counts] and ironically it was with the same HLF Team that is [was] running the Vulcan Project. They are a very supportive team of people, hence my disappointment at your earlier negative comments about them.

With a successful HLF application the performance targets and reporting requirements [about how you are achieving the stated aims of the Bid] typically go on for the duration of the contract; they can be onerous and can include the reclamation of some or the entire grant if you do not meet your targets.

One interesting statement from the HLF at the BAPC 40th Anniversary event in 2007, related to their main involvement and success of the project being “to get the aircraft airborne”; the same person also stated that HLF was extremely unlikely to ever support another ‘flying project’.

Good starter airframe for many collections, but also a type of construction that highlights the importance of getting airframes under cover.

I guess a similar theme will eventually follow with the American loaned airframes.

My suggestion would be that they enabled groups to get established, which ultimately could lead to other important types being saved! 🙂

Elliott, you could always bring them along and get them valued, or possibly trade with them here in the New Year http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/newsItem.php?id=58

I think the silence might indicate that these are not yet a lost cause! 😉