“Not suitable for children” it says in the ad and then there’s some young lad, looking very unimpressed I might add, holding the darned thing!! “Aww, c’mon dad, me an me mates wanna go an’ trash sum bus stops and yer gonna make me look dead sad on the t’internet” 😀

Maybe it would be too much to ask for this ship to sail home and into preservation?

The government are loathed to spend on our current fleet let alone preserve one that has been paid off. How the hell they are going to find the funds for the proposed super carriers I don’t know. Sounds a bit negative but the RAF/historic aircraft museums get more visitors as we remember the aircraft from our childhood flying over us. The RN fleet were seen less, normally going in and out of port and don’t have the “bums on seats ” pulling power. A real pity as there are/were some wonderful vessels worth saving. (I remember watching Bulwark rotting away in Portsmouth and Ark Royal in the Tamar before being scrapped . Shame)

Edit: Wasn’t there a movement for the preservation of Ark Royal 4?

Was posted earlier on the “shuttleworth” thread. great news tho.

How didya move yer post so quickly airspeed!!! God it takes me 20 minutes to work out which button to switch my pooty on with!! :confused:

Along with the other regular cosford visitors on here, its a distressingly familiar scene. With metal prices sky high, this will become an all too common result to any aircraft that sits still for too long. 🙁

The brooklands example was the only VC10 Cosford resident. As regards the Vicky tug film, its either her being tugged in when she arrived at Cosford or when she was moved off her stand to be dismantled to go to Brooklands. As in other posts, maybe we’ll get another when the VC10 is withdrawn from RAF service. After last nights news report on the RAF transport/tanker/logistics fleet, it may be sooner rather than later.

It is the Vicky from Cosford, which I miss very much. That graceful tail was designed by a man with a pen and a piece of paper with a sense of theatre. I think Duxfords is now the closest to me here in Wolves? anyone know of any closer?