You just answered your own question, non responce from the saudi embassy says it all. We dont make the rules, we just follow em, we enquired, we got an answer. Duxford? who knows, ask them. North Weald? ditto.

MJR

is bug@**ers un PC now too? blimey. well I’m bug@**ered! 😀

MJR

Mjr

I have looked through the GA website and I am very impressed with what is being done to 53-671, By the looks of things it is almost a return to flight style restoration, What are the plans for this airframe?.

Regards

John.

Hello john, thanks for the kind comments, much appreciated. Yes 671 is getting the full royal treatment, since the airframe arrived in a thousand bits, we decided from day one that every single component would be inspected and re-furbished where possible. The re-build has been on going since 2001 now, and we are on the home straight, a lot of money as been spent on the old bucket. PM me and I will give you the low down.
We are treating it like a return to flight re-build, since it is easier that way, this way we can guarantee that no compromises are made.

The web pages are 6 months out of date already, current pace of rebuild means its out of date within weeks of re-freshing the pages.

Nice piicie above. 687 is now basking in the saudi sun light.

maybe this is a good excuse for a Lightning piccie thread, there hasnt been one for a while. Not that I am biased. 😀

MJR

http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/lightning/mainsite.htm

We have made equiries into this issue for 53-671 at Gatwick. The responce we got was. We can go ahead and display in Saudi Colours, but are not allowed to display any markings with religeous content, ie Fin flash is fine but the refrences to the Coran cannot be displayed. Hence We have all the original Saudi Warning markings, and are having all but the Coran refrences on the Fin flash. We are going for best of both worlds, one side Saudi Markings and the other in return flight RAF markings. Saudis have softened a fair bit in recent years on this issue. It was a big no no 5-6 years ago, to display any markings at all.

MJR

“does the CAA turbine policy have an impact?”

Are we talking about the same turbine policy, that was shelved back in December by the CAA, when almost all of the private operators in the UK turned around and said, “fine so you dont want the revenue that we are bringing you in then?”

MJR

yes well done to East Fortune for turfing out a whole hangars worth of perfectly descent aiframes, with naff all notice, to stick a chopped up concord in instead. But hey its ok, because its bringing in revenue. It makes perfectly good sense..

On Mars!

MJR

meant 580 at Salmsbury, is it still at the main gate?

MJR

Plazz,

yes, true, its been on the cards for a while now that this aiframe was to go to D+G. I wonder if they will take it apart properly or chop it? Im fairly sure its ZF581.

MJR