What about the ejector seats, are they live ? for whats it worth I would hope that the are safely dissarmed, its got to be one less thing for the restoration teams to worry about. And I would not have thought the Lightning ect would be zero zero so of little use to the pilot.

DOUGHNUT

Trumper
“you would allow someone else to display your plane if you could’nt”

There is a difference between gaining pleasure in owning and flying an aircraft and giving public displays.
Just because an owner is not able to give a public display because of either experiance or health grounds does not stop him flying the ‘just for fun’ or carrying out transit flights, assuming he (or she) has the necessary type certificate.
There must be many high houred military and commerical pilots out there who given the opertunity could undertake training to become warbird display pilots. Starting with Tiger Moth / Havard, moving on to the big stuff later.

DOUGHNUT

Totally agree with the lack of a preserved HS748 in the UK. Although a would guess that the market value of such aircraft is still to high to expect a complete airframe to be given out to a museum. I would have throught that one of ex CAA flight checker aircraft should have gone to Wroughton as part of the sceince museum collect, those aircraft were old series 1 and would have had litle resale value as they were not in transport configuration. Where did they end up last I heard they were at either Newcastle or Exeter, any answers ???

DOUGHNUT

As for Hendon using limited fund to ‘improve the visitor expericance’ exactly how doe sthat stupid steel sculpture improve things ?

DOUGHNUT

Ok Ok I got to ask. what is it you are all bidding for ?

The company I work for has recently ‘closed down’ a lot of non work related web sites such as ebay and Exchange and Mart, so I can not check for myself. I’ve been told to watch out about the ‘non business use’ web sites and email groups, big brother is watching!. Hey I dont care as I leave the company next Friday. The firm has become tedious and boring to work for, with too many managers and memo’s about counting the paper clips. Does anybody else have to watch their back when using the web or sending private email from work?

DOUGHNUT

SARO SRA-1 Duxford 1984, now at Southhampton