That is sad and disappointing. What is the old adage? “If you have nothing good to say, say nothing”.
I’m interested in your observation here of “If you have nothing good to say, say nothing”.
Previously, Bluebird Bill has said he has “ an overdeveloped sense of fair play”.
Yet for the past eight months there has been a constant torrent of abuse aimed at FAAM, and no one here advised him the same.
So let’s pause, and see where we actually are.
I spoke with the FAAM people yesterday, and they were pretty complimentary about much of the work done so far. However, it seems pretty clear that the bits in question definitely went missing at the Northern End. Did Tin Triangle or anyone from this forum speak to them? If not, why not? Surely from your involvement here you want to know as much as possible about what is going on. (PS Great pix, TT, better than my humble snaps.)
You also say you’re …”not sure you want to know…” where the bits went. Really? Time, money and love have been expended on these pretty priceless relics.
The FAQ’s board says that the Museum received its parts back (or most of them) in February 2015. Again if you bother to go back and re-read the Barracuda Project forum pages- *(not flypast forum) *for the diary entry as at December 2014 (approx para 11) you will see that Bluebird Project are still clearly working on the tail wheel unit that they refer to as the ‘leg of Olay’ and thereby must *have it in their possession.
So, by definition the leg and other parts, having been lovingly restored (at no small cost) and regularly displayed all over the web, went missing in a one month period (January 2014), from within a locked secure facility, were not reported missing to the police, were not reported missing to the FAAM, who only found out their shortfall when the haulier arrived at Yeovilton without them????? *
Lee Howard has been asking the correct exam question several times over-‘ where are the parts’? come on folks, these are rare valuable WW2 Aircraft Parts that clearly appear to have gone missing from the northern end with little in the way of explanation (‘we don’t know where they are’?)- that’s not a good enough answer. You can hardly lose a tailwheel yoke strut and an elevator in the corner of a forgotten drawer, can you?
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