There’s nothing to salvage – it’s been a pile of rotting junk for years now. If the owner seriously expects so much as a penny for it then he’s kidding himself!

Good grief how crazy is that? So an airworthy aircraft is left grounded for nothing? Brilliant!:p

You’d think that there would be a way around this – doesn’t SA have any qualified test pilots who could do the job?

Think 77 would be closer – bear in mind that the OCU Hastings at Scampton did occasionally fly transport sorties when required so I guess one might have turned-up at SM. They certainly visited pretty often.

Only photo I’ve seen of the Victor over-run was in a book (might have been the Ian Allan Victor book from about 25 years back?). Nothing very spectacular though – it simply ran onto the grass with the brake chute deployed. The locals told me that the cows were not too impressed though!

My computer won’t let me type MP-5 it removes the hyphen automatically

Well you seem to have re-installed it successfully!

I have no idea what this thread is about any more – truly bizarre!

Ultimately you don’t need to be asking other people’s opinions. You should be able to judge for yourself if a story is readable, interesting and entertaining and that the facts are all accurate (if it relies on any facts) and that fiction is detailed and convincing if that’s what you’re aiming for. Sadly, this generally involves the tedious task of re-reading your own text more than a few times!

Presentation is important though if you want to attract a publisher. If your manuscript is poorly presented with dodgy grammar and bad spelling, it will probably go straight in the trash before the first paragraph has been read.

Common sense stuff really – tedious, not very glamorous, but just the way it is!

I refer the gentleman to my previous answer! 😀