Bring her over here, fly her on airshows, no problem. People will come / pay to see this.

But I can also imagine seeing a Lanc flying over the Möhnedamm would be quite frightning for some of the older generation … don´t know what memories that could bring up.

well if it was in this country we’d all be off to the local ”where theres blame theres a claim” outlet and filing for Post traumatic stress disorder!

It is precisely this kind of thing that makes my blood boil, who in their right mind would send items like this for scrap? they are not scrap items of metal, they are national treasures! how these things can be allowed to happen is totally beyond me and the volunteer who called in the scrapman would seriously benefit from a public flogging! , i take it these items were at least offered to the national collections before being disposed of? having said all of the above i suppose the RAF museum didnt actually fall over themselves to recover the remains of the Halton freight pannier left rotting in a Shropshire breakers yard for thirty years did they? so we only have ourselves to blame. selfishly i am just thinking what a fantastic conversation piece a glaliator exhaust ring would be over the mantelpiece!

Is the Ambassador still outdoors at Duxford?? if so that seems like an awful waste of time and effort to me?

So, that said she is the last surviving AEW in the uk, as i believe the St Mawgan example is a mock up AEW?, either way shes deserving of a warm dry future. shes made it this far, we cant put her out in the cold now can we? i truly hope a home is secured where she is, she is a ‘Manc’ after all! a bit like scary spice but better looking!

I can remember when it was at Cosford, discreetly tucked in between the hangars, i grabbed a few minutes aboard and took in the delightful smells and feel of a just out of service airframe, and i dont mean the elsan either!, I did hope then that it might find its way into the hangar and reside alongside the lincoln, and if memeory serves me correct it was destined to replace the Lincoln in the hangar and the Lincoln was going north instead, but the resident ghost put paid to that!

Shackleton ommission

In fact, most of the aircraft are owned by the RAF Museum IIRC, with some notable exceptions.

Well if there was an aircraft that is missing from the cold war museum then the Shackleton is definiately IT!, therefore if this Shack is up for grabs then some serious head scratching needs to be done at Cosford and a small re-think on the exhibits that lay within the worlds most oddly shaped Hangar! boot the large yankee chopper out, remove the cafe,shop and twin Pin to a different position and ”shoehorn” the Shack in ! i can remember seeing the early drawings along with a rather splendid model of the planned building and exhibits back in the early nineties and im almost positive it had a shackleton in that layout. failing that, what would it enatil to ”stitch an extension onto the building over on the belfast end and allow the shack and some other missing airframes to have some warm shelter?

AIRLINE….. YORKSHIRE TELEVISION SERIES,

Episode 2, Ruskins first flight fter rebuild of ”vera” The look on jack ruskins face as he struggles with an out of trim Dak,Priceless! and damned good acting on the part of Roy marsden,apparently he was taught the rudimentary principles of flying a Dak to make the shots more realistic.