The hangar is subject to a final Heritage Lottery Fund application later on in the year. Should that be successful, then preliminary work could commence in the new year, but the Hangar itself will remain as is for probably 18 months or more.

Septic was correct about the Vimy engines being inhibited, but there are plans to roll her outside and run the engines on August the 3rd!

It’s a shame this is turning into a anti Brooklands thread, it began so well.

The aircraft volunteers work in teams on days that suit them best. However, the Vanguard team has always included Saturdays as one of their days and have been after new volunteers for some years.

Asking generally will not get the correct answer as some teams never see others and stewards certainly will not know what is going on. Your friend should have been directed to the Manager responsible. It is difficult trying to integrate willing volunteers who can only work weekends, as unless there are at least two, it just doesn’t work. Anyway, it’s good that Hendon are making use of his skills, at least they are not wasted.

Having just sat through the whole debate with interest, it is clear that the decision was really based on the issue of green belt land. The question now is when the land was purchased, was a local authority search carried out and if so did it reveal the proposal to change the site from common land to green belt land. If a search did not reveal such a proposal, then surely that is the basis for the appeal.

It was plainly obvious that a few councilors had their minds set in stone, regardless of the debate, and that reflects some of the posts in this thread before the debate.

The sale of surplus items will be at the existing site in Redhill Road. Details are on the the bus museum web site.

The site at Brooklands is slowly being cleared, hampered by the concrete from old buildings dumped there, and a lot of scrap metal. I am reliably informed that some of the metal will be from Wellington jigs!

Due to open July ’11 I believe.

G-VTOL will be back in asap, possibly within a week.

The Viking airliner will be the only exhibit permanently banished from the hanger. On the positive side of things, much restoration work has been carried out on the Viking that would not have been possible in the hanger. Once a permanent site has been prepared, the wings will be able to be re-fitted, a task that would have been impossible in the hanger.