reality check
where does everybody get this idea of return to flight .the main and only job was to get the screens replaced because another group were going to charge the museum some 18k to do it using equipment and lots of bodies .We as i understand it were asked if we could find a way of doing it for sod all .there are two ways of doing this ,one with the equipment and a crane or cradle and large hoist (not sure if the crane is really nessesary as there is a screw jack to us e in place of the actuators to lower the nose fully)and as far as the crane goes just have a look at the size of the hangar,to get the crane to the front of the aircraft it must go under the fuselage but there are always ways around these things . And the second way was to use the aircrafts own systems to power the nose down if possible and this was the only reason to power the aircraft up as the contact between BA (the owners) and the museum does not mention applying power ,the museum had checked this with their lawyers and were ok . All this stuff about all the other systems was just an add on but not really needed .........but all those that say this or that should not be done should not really looking at aviation projects at all and would perhaps be better off wrapping themselves in cotton wool and just waiting to die .....there are far too many projects get dropped because some loony says that it may be dangerous or it may hurt sombody ( far more people killed every year in cars than in any other thing so why not just ban cars), and this project is not going to kill or hurt anybody at all so all that is needed is support or just pay the other group 18k+ to get it done their way
so you either get a large bill and a few happy people ...or you get lots of media attention and maybe thousands of people happy ,but still at the end of it the screen will be replaced .