Originally Posted by
GeeRam
MidAir was operating the
PR.9 OK for a couple of seasons until recently when they went tits-up. Such a shame that a buyer for that can't be found. Don't understand why VTTS just didn't buy that, it's ready to go and fly now it was half the price of the what they say it's going to cost to return WK to the air......
The quoted £100k is NOT to return it to the air, merely to buy it, ship it to Doncaster and take it to pieces and decide what needs doing to it next. You be assured that it will take many, many times that amount to complete the restoration. I understand that its condition has suffered considerably from its aborted restoration and subsequent time parked out in the elements at Coventry. VTTS have a successful business model which involves continued funding rounds for a project that is always described as being on the brink of collapse unless, in the immortal words of Bob Geldof, you just "give us your ****ing money" - WK163 fits that model perfectly, doubtless with plenty of dramas to come, unlike XH134.