[. From what I have seen, Savvas Constantinides has done nothing to preserve these important aircraft.
Hardly fair. The guy had them flown out to a proper airport in a descent climate, which is more than can be said for many shacks in the uk, that were hacked up to be moved by road. He purchased them in order to keep them flying and start up a thunder city style museum. For what ever reason he then went banckrupt later, and got himself in a situation where he couldnt pay the owed ground rent etc for the aircraft residency. As a result their ownership was seized by the powers that be, they are the ones that left them to their own devices. Its no good blaming the MOD either, Im sure that they were delighted to sell the aircraft to a rich business man who intended to keep them flying, just around the corner from an RAF base that used to fly shacks too. What more could MOD have done to secure their future? the general public are not as enlighted as the rest of us preservationists, and its the tax payer and governement the MOD have to keep happy, at least you have the chance to purchase aircraft these days, in the not too distant past, little was auction available to anyone that wanted it, it all went to the local metal merchant to be squashed, apart from the odd gate guardian.
the MOD are under the same ridiculous commercial pressures that any other corporation are under these days, they have to answer to government bean counters, just like your employers have to answer to its shareholders. If anyone is to blame for the way assets are now auctioned off, its the goverment, for trying to run our MOD like a commercially viable business.
MJR
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