Thank you all. I am really pleased with her. The damage is all repairable. The internal structure is largely sound and the skin damage was caused at the time of scrapping at Brize Norton when she was chopped off of the fuselage and allowed to drop. She was then allowed to roll around a bit. We will repair minor damage to skins by surface dressing and filling, the larger creases and tears will be repaired by drilling out the rivets and replacing the whole skins. I am going to fabricate a cantilever stand that will support her from the rear in a way that will make her appear to be floating with no support forward of the cut point.
Today I hand polished her, my arms feel aweful but it was worth the effort! Oh and when I say hand polished I mean it, pot of wax and some cloths. If anyone has any parts (as in the above post) please PM me and we can see if we can come to an arrangement to get them back where they belong.
I believe the plan is to fit one of their nice complete Jaguar forward fuselages to the rear of ‘734 to make a whole Jag. The wing is present too though badly hacked around. Having said that you only have to look at the job they did with their SHAR to see what can be achieved! Well done to the museum for saving this Jaguar from the scrap-man.
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