Also depends what you are calling an original part!! If you find an aeroplane now, do you count everything on it as original?

Many parts may have been changed in service. Has someone tried to restore it before?

It’s like Triggers broom ‘3 new heads and 4 new handles and it’s still going strong’.

Willow

No it isn’t 😀

Willow

But the ‘personal needs’ situation must be horrendous.

The rear fuselage must have been full by the time he ‘landed’ 🙂

Going to the beach for your holiday is very popular.

Maybe Janie is just ‘on vacation’

Willow

I think it depends on what you count as preservation. To use a recently mentioned example, I would not say that Spitfire TE184 was ‘preserved’ at this moment. It exists, yes. And your right, that does matter, but it is not being cared for or maintained (that we know of) so does it really count as preserved?

25years ago, the Avro Lincoln at Southend would have counted as preserved. Does it still count now??

Willow

P.S. Yak, thanks for editing. Stops me looking like a right burk again!!

Yak11fan is right in what he says. The info that DROPTANK claims to know is obviously confidential, that’s why he can’t tell us. But it does tell us that SM969 is on the move.

Unless, of course, he’s making it all up. And as he can’t prove what he’s saying because it’s confidential, whatever DOES happen to SM969, even in 20years time, could easily be claimed as what he knows.

The question is, untill it’s actually at an airshow in front of us, does anyone really care which barn it’s being stored/restored in?

Willow

(teddy getting nervous now)

Originally posted by Tony C
Defiant, to confuse the Airshow public who don’t know the difference between a Hurricane and a Defiant!

Tony

The Airshow public don’t know the difference between a Hurricane and a Spitfire. Let’s work on that one first:)

As for Hendon………

THE SUNDERLAND

of course.

Although the Ju88 would be good fun as well.

Willow