Good lord, you look away from here for five minutes..!
Well, I think everything I think has already been said. Here are my random thoughts on this anyway-
‘611 is best off where and how she is now-she’ll last damn near forever that way.
No, ‘474 can’t go on forever, but as it’s only really a dodgy landing or some git at the MoD that will finish her off in anything like the near future, I don’t think we need worry about replacing her just yet!
Re. resparring ‘611, just like that, down here at St Athan; wasn’t the special steel used for ‘474 the last of a batch left over from doing the Shacks? So perhaps the very material to do this job is no longer easily available, for a start.
If ‘611 was restored to fly, she’d need to be stripped right down to her bones and rebuilt; not even thinking about corrosion for a minute, ‘611 engineer Ian Hickling has said about how the aircraft was neither properly taken apart or put back together again on her move from Scampton, so that fact alone would mean having to start from scratch with every part of her ‘just in case’. Too many people seem to be fooled by a high-speed taxy run or two that ‘611 could just lift off into the air and get straight on with it.
I really don’t think the UK will support 2 flying Lancs.
Much else as the place has to offer, if ‘611 flies, East Kirkby loses it’s major attraction, and could then possibly face financial problems. And if ‘611 is living away and playing, then costs would go through the roof, furthering the money woes.
There’s a lot else to say, buy really, things are best left as they are. :rolleyes:
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