Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
My personal view is they are going to struggle, depending on who else they can find with the right credentials who may be prepared to take on rebuilding an early Sabre to flight standards. It sounded like that the guy Nick has lined up (would guess its whoever is doing the Centaurus engines for him?) turned down doing the older one for one of the Typhoon projects...?
There's not exactly a large list of sleeve valve experienced engine shops around that might be willing to do it. I remember Kermit was struggling to find any engine shop 30 odd years ago willing to take it on, back when Paul Coggan did a feature on it for Warbirds Worldwide.