Tim your spot on.
The CAA will produce stats out of there ears, and reasons why nothing will fly.
Get British Aerospace on your side, you may have a chance, and i mean PROPERLY on your side.
Kemble and there Hunters have proved a lot of folks wrong and i salute them, but when companies such as the Old Flying Machine Company at Duxford buy what was, by all accounts, a serviceable F4 and very quickly ditch the idea of flying it once they asked the CAA what an initial agreement to fly meant, it gives some idea of the scale of the task involved and more importantly the backing that is required.
JAGUAR - Now we know why god gave fighters 2 engines!!