My father towed gliders in an 82c at Sarnia in the late ’50s.

Performance was marginal. He says he flew with one hand on the “release” all the time.

Well, winning the war is great, but making a profit is personal.

Less torque initially at throttle-up since the spool-up time in a turbine is slower than a piston-engine. Not much different at cruise or landing. Cleaner windshield though!

Works well here:

I was prevented from landing once by photographers. Footage here. Starts at 2:35 in.

There was only one place on the river I could land due to slush under the unpacked snow. And the photographers kept walking out onto it. With the ruts already there, I couldn’t guarantee a straight run-out, and rather than swerve and then damage the aeroplane with some dimwit’s skull, I went back to base.

200M? USD200M??? TWO HUNDRED MILLION???

Well of course it’s shut down! Who could reasonably expect anything else?

All restorations stand on 3 legs, a Budget, a Business Plan, and a Timeline. It sounds like only one was in place here.

I’m not saying fraud, but obviously LH was not monitoring this program adequately.

Dave

It’s money and hangar space. And a Business Plan.

Nothing major gets restored without these 3 things.

And a Viscount would take a lot of money.