Nuff said!

Good old Basil!

Calling Lord Marshall!

Welcome to our corner – Concorde. Here you have plenty of supporters for years to come here. We will look after you just like we do with the Vulcan.
I managed to stand on a 12 ft high fence and watch all three of you landed today, with out getting arrested. But I would have been happy to have been today!
I will see you at Filton next month and I can only hope that anyone in BA Land who reads this really thinks thinks hard about keeping one for display purposes. It would be there biggest PR they will ever achieve.
I flew on you in 1997 and the memory lives on forever.

Then someone better start taking to the museum or its recievers to secure a fine freighter. The price of scrap is low at the mo, so scrapping could prove costly. Action soon or she will be gone. Mind you I have been saying that about the Blackpool Vulcan for years and the ruddy thing is still there!

The list is endless and changes on a monthly basis.

It would be a long e mail worth a look at http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk/museum-explorer/site_details_return.php?museum=9

The original 747 was to be a Conference centre but never happened so it was blown up, a few weeks later the SAS went in and blew the doors off from the outsite as well for training. Same idea for the tristar as well. Then a few blokes bought it and wanted to move it to Derby and open a cafe in it. Thus it never happened and was scrapped!
Rumour and I am not one for rumours! The Victor cockpit will be leaving soon as well as one of the Canberras.

I think it was Loughborough council who stopped the planning. Waltons appealed and lost. The main issue at the time was noise, from either aircraft or cars on the proving ground. There we sound recording machines on site for a year or two to monitor the noise level.
Planning permmission for aircraft is only granted for Pans 1, 2 & 3 all other areas are not permitted. That why you see them on those pans only.
The Taxi Days I would say from experience are not big earners for the Waltons, as they have to move 100’s of cars the weeks before and after. Also insurance fuel, the list is endless. That why Rolling Thunder/Big Thunder events are no longer held.
But yes good profile for the site. Ideal for Concorde fast taxi’s!!!

Approx cost to put 558 back to original config would be £250K. Most parts have already been refurbished by the OEM’s and are still waiting dispatch back to Bruntingthorpe.
In 1993 C Waltons tender to aquire 558 was the most realistic out the short list of 7. Thus David and the family took delivery.
No one has ever gone this far to date with a complex aircraft in the UK, just need hard cash to make it happen.
I have seen some of the letters of support from Industry to the HLF about the grant bid, and feel positive that this project will go forward.
It will take £250K and the OK from the Walton family to put 558 back if the HLF fails, otherwise it will be dragged out of the hanger, and the hanger let for storage.