No more than any other twin warbird operator 🙂

When you start operating Maintenance costs will take 60% of your over heads and insurance the other 40%. As the Vulcan guys have found they have full bookings for shows and still struggle to generate enough funds to be able to get air bourne !!!! and sadly they still have to put appeals out every year to top up and continue. Also a statement was made about not knowing the costs for the Vulcan as I understand it their original estimate was £5 million in the end it was more like £13m a very big leap and I feel that the guys on this project must not be fixed on a set sum and expect to be just that if they feel its going to cost £5m then at least double that and add a contingency for 25% on top again then when its ready to operate you need to have another budget to cover flight tests,paperwork, inspections, problems,and of course insurance

Mike E

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

How can you compare operating the Vulcan, considering its huge fuel costs and complex maintainance issues with maintaining an airworthy Mosquito???

Glynn started his efforts in 1987. The first aircraft may fly in 2012, so yes, 25 years is about right!

What Glynn has done is to make it possible to build a Mosquito airframe. In a global economy, what is the problem in using that expertise? I would rather go through the CAA paperwork route using Glynns existing data, than have to try and recreate it again just to say that it was all done in the UK!

That isnt, by the way, suggesting that it is an impossible dream, or decrying any groups efforts in the UK – its being pragmatic, pure and simple.

Bruce

If you check out post #9 you will see that is exactly what I was suggesting, hence my “surprise” that someone should suggest a “minimum” of 25 years would be needed to complete a project such as this.
I am also assuming that the impetus that kicked VTTS off could be recreated again 🙂

The website above is looking for donations, New Zealand has an estimated population of approximately 4.4 million.
UK has a population of some 60 million, plus some interest from near Europe where a Mosquito may also display, It is not impossible to create an Airworthy Mosquito if the inertia can be created, similar to Vulcan to the sky
With sufficient funds anything is possible. 🙂

Maybe for example the fuselage could be created using the existing mould in NZ and shipped here for fitting out.

Could the construction be based at Hatfield? what a draw to the museum that would be.

I remember reading similar reports of how impossible, expensive returning a Vulcan to the sky would be, it has been done, for how long who knows, but a Mosquito would be sustainable for much longer.

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The only thing I would add is that we should follow the french and have a 90mph limit when dry, dropping automatically to 70 in rain or snow. A sensible bit of legislation by the French (for once)

Moggy

Where in France can you legally do 90mph / 145Km per hour ????????

Woodford Scrapyard 😡