Spotted the replica First World War A7V tank in the background – is this normally on display at Millom when it’s not at shows?

It is, then it will spend the summer in the Wigan area going out to shows.

Here are some more shots of the Lightning with the covers off.

Flight Sim Repaints

Here are some of the Flight Sim repaints of the Museums collection that can be flown by visitors at the Museum, kindly created by Stephanie Lawton.

When are these airframes going under cover, especially as some of them are in good condition inside and out?

The Canberra will have to stay out side, the Vampire needs a bit of work and a lot of bodies to get her through the door in the coming months, the others are inside.

Was there a specific reason for the mainplans and tail being chopped at all? – Were the attachment bolts found to be that stubborn that it was decided quicker to cut than to unbolt?

Not nitpicking, just curious (and as a Canberraphile slightly upset to see the old crate so dismembered! 😮 ) It must have been a fairly major operation to cut through that much metal!

Saddly as the mainplane attachment pins had fused and there was a time/financial and access constraint they had to be chopped off, we were not on site so the operation the operation was supervised by BAe Herritage, Ainscough Vanguard did the cutting and are experts in their field, the guy doing it spent a lot of time ensuring the cuts were only the width of the wheel and not made any wider.

Incidently when she was surveyed for us 2 yrs ago by the RAF she was condemed by them due to excesive delamination of the main spar, they advised only to save the cockpit.

Hi – what’s happening with the Canberra move? Cannot contact anyone at the moment as have lost my address book 🙁 My job situation has finally been resolved, so trying to get organised & hope to get up to the museum soon. However my new route to work takes me past the Canberra everyday – all looked promising last week – screens went up around it and scaffolding gantries appeared – then they dissapeared again, but from what I can see over the screens, she still seems pretty intact? not even any sign of any panels removed? Whilst I am still pretty busy on the house, I do only live five minutes from the site, so if an extra pair of hands for a couple of hours is of any use? let me know.

Thanks Nick but the dismantling/move is being handled by Ainscough Vanguard

We have a D4 Link Trainer at Dumfries. How is yours going? We need the loan of the manual if anyone has one, can you help? There are also two broken BT19 Thyratron valves.

Ken

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