Sorry but I don’t agree. Having large or indeed any aircraft under cover is always beneficial, but the DAS at Duxford and the Newark Air Museum have for the past 45 years or so shown how with limited resources but hard work, incredible enthusiasm and determination from volunteers you can acquire and preserve long term large aircraft outside!
And having visited and donated to the Guppy on numerous occasions, I can only sympathise with those who have volunteered and worked on it, only to be told to sling yer hook. I myself was until the beginning of this year a volunteer at a museum for six and a half years – giving up practically every Sunday to work on the building itself and exhibits within, only to be told with just a couple of months notice we were to close permanently and move out.
Finding people who are prepared to give up their precious free time is sometimes taken for granted far too much IMO!
Very nice Savage wheel you have there Swifter, well done. When it first appeared on here I did ask about it but was told it wasn’t for sale. Strange. 
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