Originally Posted by
Vendee
Its an expensive tribute using taxpayers money. It was a tragic accident and a former groundcrew myself I understand that but there are around 130 work related fatalities per year in the UK. I think that spending tens of thousands of pounds of someone else's money repainting an aircraft is not the right thing to do. I understand if you disagree.
An airframe was lost at Valley, so presumably a replacement will be drawn from storage at Shawbury(?)
This will need respraying in RAFAT colours.
If you find this so offensive, I will personally buy the tin of blue paint myself, and I'm sure many here will chip in too.
Happy?
