Originally posted by Bmused55
Unfortunately, they can’t fly her out. Too many things missing to sort and would generally not be allowed.

The wings were shortened by a couple of feet each side when she was taken on as a ground staff trainer, so flying her is definitively out of the question!

The Viking’s wings still exist, they were stored/restored seperately at Heathrow Airport. I saw them there in 2000, but don’t know if they’re still there or have moved elsewhere.

Re: UK scrapyard pics

Originally posted by SpitfireMK
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The nose section of XT575 is now at the Brooklands Museum, there are plans for a complete restoration but not much has been done so far.

Does anybody have any pictures of the scrapping process of the VC10s at St. Athan? Not that I’m keen on seeing this, but I’d like to use them for my site if possible.

I was at Kissimmee and Fantasy of Flight about a year and a half ago, and would be surprised if any one of those two P-38s is close to flying now.

The FOF example has had its booms cut off just behind the wing at some point which means very major repairs, and the Kissimmee example couldn’t even be recognised as one when I saw it!

Edited to add images:

Kermit Weeks’ example:

Kissimmee example:

Both photos taken early 2002.

XR220 definitively could have flown. The crew was having lunch when the axe fell and rushed back to the airfield to get the aircraft in the air, but were forbidden to do so.

For more info have a look at Damien Burke’s site: Thunder and Lightnings