i could never understand why people insist on being so single minded!

This sort of situation is not unique, ususally these people are just losers and have accidently found themselves owning something people want to save.
So it massages their ego no end and they ‘Juice off it’ by saying clear off/no etc. A bit like get off my land with farmers.
Unfortunately the more you apply the pressure the worse it gets, it needs stealth in these situations.

Graham

As It me, or is there a serious missing link in our aviation heritage, that is that we are missing the fisrt of great heavies, the Short Stirling.

I am very aware of the gallant work of the Stirling Project http://www.stirlingproject.co.uk/ who are valiantly trying to rebuild part of a Stirling.

I think we should be going one better and trying to identify a downed(preferably ditched) variant that perhaps could be restored at least to museum condition.

From all of your reourcse has anyone got a clus on how I could start this research project?

Thanks

No the serious missing link is a satisfactory way of accessing drawings or at least knowing for sure what drawings exist [if any ]and this applies to all aircraft. You can dredge up any old wreck but you still need a set of drawings to work out how to re-make parts.

Graham

I think a small museum like the one at Norwich has enough on its plate trying to look after their Vulcan XM612, let alone plonking a Nimrod on them as well.

Yes quite right, Flixton were rang by the MOD and were asked if they wanted one, but they just haven’t the room.

Graham

I would watch the copyright on Boeing stuff, their pretty hot on what is deemed their intellectual property.

Graham

I wonder if the unmanned seafire 47’s catapulted off HMS Perseus in the fifty’s without their complete wings in the north of Scotland are still there?
About 5 of them, I think one nearly flew back into the ship so they hacked holes all over it so they didn’t keep flying on.

Graham