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By: 24th January 2018 at 20:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Dont get your hopes up but have heard mumers of progress, can say no more.
By: 24th January 2018 at 21:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That'd be sad, if it comes about. :-(
Anon.
By: 24th January 2018 at 21:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Would be a crime :( Seems only yesterday she was flying.
By: 25th January 2018 at 08:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Ooooo, perhaps it could become a drug runner like so many other 'out of ticket' DC6/7
By: 25th January 2018 at 11:54 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Let's hope it gets saved: I'd rather see a static DC.6 than yet another bl00dy Spitfire replica!
By: 25th January 2018 at 12:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-'SAVED' means left to rot - do It a favour, send the engines & props to Fairbanks & melt the rest
By: 25th January 2018 at 14:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-'Saved' means put under cover.
Or why don't we just not bother and melt everything so we can part out the bits elsewhere?
FFS.
By: 25th January 2018 at 14:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Aaaah - you mean 'saved' like the line of beautiful airliners at Duxford, which a bunch of folk work hard to keep presentable. Indoors it seems is a dream even for English built.
By: 25th January 2018 at 20:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'd rather it rotted outside at somewhere like Duxford while still looking tasty enough to inspire the next generation of pilots/engineers, yeah so its not ideal to keep them outside but sometimes things end up coming in after their tour on the gate and that's how rare beasts are made! I get sick of reading negative comments aimed at people who try to the best with what they have.........
By: 26th January 2018 at 08:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-What a shame! One of my most favorite propliners around.....
By: 26th January 2018 at 11:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'd rather it rotted outside at somewhere like Duxford while still looking tasty enough to inspire the next generation of pilots/engineers, yeah so its not ideal to keep them outside but sometimes things end up coming in after their tour on the gate and that's how rare beasts are made! I get sick of reading negative comments aimed at people who try to the best with what they have.........
Various thumbs up to that one. Lots of good people are trying to do good things and often in 'pointless' work on subjects which 'the public won't be interested in'. Fortunately it doesn't deter those good folks and thankfully our aviation heritage isn't presented to future generations as just being a couple of Spitfires and a Tornado.
By: 26th January 2018 at 14:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Thanks for the great photos, maybe all we will have left along with our memories!
By: 26th January 2018 at 14:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I think that man in the last photo leaving the ramp might be able to put us in the picture?
By: 28th January 2018 at 17:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-This is not the former restaurant example?
I guess the Midland air museum have declined her?
By: 28th January 2018 at 18:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-DC6 Diner is G-SIXC, which incidentally is also facing extinction as the Diner closed down and the airframe is unlikely to survive too...
The Museum simply don't have the land space for another large aircraft such as this I'm afraid.
By: 28th January 2018 at 20:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Mike Collett will have done all he can. He will have been paying parking fees for more than two years with no money coming in. Thankfully most of his collection have found new homes.
Any idea what is happening with the Dakotas?
By: 28th January 2018 at 21:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Quote from SADSACK "Mike Collett will have done all he can. He will have been paying parking fees for more than two years with no money coming in."
FYI, G-APSA is not owned by MC (nor for that matter is the Diner G-SIXC).
Tim
By: 29th January 2018 at 08:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-hunterxf382 wrote:
DC6 Diner is G-SIXC, which incidentally is also facing extinction as the Diner closed down and the airframe is unlikely to survive too...
Douglas DC6 G-SIXC at Coventry 2010
By: 29th January 2018 at 17:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Shame how much can change in 10 years :(
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By: Chitts - 24th January 2018 at 20:48
As the title says, she's being recycled next month; shame to see an old friend go, had lots of fun flying her around Europe in 1997/98.