tony jarrett
30th Oct 2011, 23:40
Hi All ,
Well it has been two months since the Trident arrived at the museum and i can say that if you have not seen our website lately i can tell you that restoration/preservation is well under way with the cockpit and front passenger cabin.. The cockpit is being painted and exclusively being undertaken by Neil Lomax and is coming along quite nicely.The front p/x cabin is totally stripped out bar the overhead shelving and is being prepped for painting.Outside the areas where we cut for dismantling have been primed to protect for the winter as well as the port leg has been further strengthend by Flavell welding. We have also have had a whole trident main gear leg and tyres donated by North Brook college at shoreham airport which is now at the museum of which we will be changing the tyres over. Julian has also sourced some front tyres for us of which we hope to start doing over the coming weeks.We have also recruited 3 more members to the team who are local to museum and have vast experience in restoring aircraft. We have also learnt from the museum comittee that the museum are looking to give us a permanant location in the museum for rebuilding the trident very soon .
For us to move forward we need to raise the money to do the next stage . We need to buy the paint for inside, carpet for the forward cabin , material for seat covers . Outside we need to look at having the money to put a solid tyre compound in the tyres, have the cleats made up for joining the wings and tail back. Anyone who can make a donation towards this stage it will be very much appreciated by us all as we can only move forward when we have the monies donated in place. Our website is www.savethetrident.org (http://www.savethetrident.org) where you can donate or find details for other payment methods. We would love to have this aircraft back together and in a condition for people to view it next year .
thankyou regards tony
Well it has been two months since the Trident arrived at the museum and i can say that if you have not seen our website lately i can tell you that restoration/preservation is well under way with the cockpit and front passenger cabin.. The cockpit is being painted and exclusively being undertaken by Neil Lomax and is coming along quite nicely.The front p/x cabin is totally stripped out bar the overhead shelving and is being prepped for painting.Outside the areas where we cut for dismantling have been primed to protect for the winter as well as the port leg has been further strengthend by Flavell welding. We have also have had a whole trident main gear leg and tyres donated by North Brook college at shoreham airport which is now at the museum of which we will be changing the tyres over. Julian has also sourced some front tyres for us of which we hope to start doing over the coming weeks.We have also recruited 3 more members to the team who are local to museum and have vast experience in restoring aircraft. We have also learnt from the museum comittee that the museum are looking to give us a permanant location in the museum for rebuilding the trident very soon .
For us to move forward we need to raise the money to do the next stage . We need to buy the paint for inside, carpet for the forward cabin , material for seat covers . Outside we need to look at having the money to put a solid tyre compound in the tyres, have the cleats made up for joining the wings and tail back. Anyone who can make a donation towards this stage it will be very much appreciated by us all as we can only move forward when we have the monies donated in place. Our website is www.savethetrident.org (http://www.savethetrident.org) where you can donate or find details for other payment methods. We would love to have this aircraft back together and in a condition for people to view it next year .
thankyou regards tony