Hear hear. I love seeing your updates, yakman – your workmanship looks beautiful. She will be a really stunning Moose when complete!

I’m not sure when it went up but the VTTS website now has a “Survival Plan” crowdfunding campaign: https://www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/vtts/vulcanxh558ssurvivalplan

Vulcan XH558’sSurvival Plan

Vulcan to the Sky Trust, which operates Vulcan XH558, Britain’s most popular aircraft, has to leave the hangar where the Vulcan and record-breaking Canberra WK163 are based. In the short term, there is no choice but to move them into storage. This campaign is to raise the funds needed for this move, and to look after the aircraft while a new hangar can be constructed. This will allow resumption of the popular tours and events around the aircraft and new income opportunities for the future.

Philanthropists double public donations

To hibernate the existing hangar operations and secure Vulcan XH558, Canberra WK163 and other assets in storage is expected to cost around £200,000 more than the Trust can afford given the cessation of hangar businesses. Half of this has been promised as matched-funding by a group of philanthropists against donations from XH558’s supporters.

Thanks to the generosity of these individuals, every pound you give will be doubled.

70 days remaining

EDIT: I think this is the Facebook panic ZRX61 alluded to earlier.

FIFTEEN?! Is that the most Spitfires owned by non-air force interests, and the most in one place?

Any chance you asked about the Mosquito project?

Another grateful observer chiming in with thanks to all contributors for taking the time to share their work with us 😮

The plans are to take her as far as we can…

Do you have a runway, and a Meteor-rated pilot? :p

I love seeing updates on this project – I echo scotavia’s comments. I think I’ve said before this project could fill a book…a niche book that might not sell many copies, but still a fascinating book! Merry Christmas from the resident NZ armchair warrior to the whole team!

Trailer does look very good.

But is it too late on post-production to hope they might give the Buchons a CG nose-job?

I was thinking some CG is yet to be done as I didn’t spot individual letters on the Spitfires.

This is looking very good.

“They have been patched with concrete, plywood and epoxy”

Repair works on the “TEXAS”………………..really?

Quoting Wikipedia:
“By 1968, the wooden main deck of the ship was so rotted that rainwater was leaking through the deck into the interior of the ship and pooling in various compartments. The Commission found that replacing the decayed deck timbers was prohibitively expensive. The solution at the time was to remove the wooden deck and replace it with concrete.

“…On 24 February 1990, tugboats moved Texas from dry dock to a repair facility on Green’s Bayou for further repairs. It was here that the wood deck was installed”

N50RT looks very nice, quite similar to ZK-ZRO.