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Originally Posted by Andy Saunders
Jagan
I respect your views and input.
However, the person who acquired it was, as you say, the first to get it....ie first past the post!
Even if other museums were in line for it, they were simply beaten to it. Had they not all been beaten to it, then might we not be witnessing now the spectacle of the other museums carping on that the other museum had got there first??
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The person who exported it (note - not the current owner - but the middle man) broke several laws in the process of exportig it. you know the story and so does everyone. He beat the other museums by breaking the law. I would be interested in hearing otherwise. Take a look at how Peter Vacher exported his Hurricane vs How this middle man did this export - and the differences are there for all to see.
For example - Peter Vacher's book has a no-objection certificate from the IAF - did the middle man who exported this get one for his? I am not blaming the current owner - just the middle man who did the export and who still has a police case lodged somewhere..
I do believe that the final owner may have got caught up in it without his knowledge on what laws were being broken - but there is no doubt that museums were beat to the post by this middlman who broke all laws in getting it out of the country. Otherwise we would not have had all this
http://www.warbirds.in/wdy/235-wbdy2002.html?start=2
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Originally Posted by Andy Saunders
I think by your agreement that all the paint would have gone had it not been recovered when it was then you seemingly concur that it would still have been in situ for a long before any of the other museums actually did anything about it. In the meantime, other collectors/dealers/restorers/museums from around the globe would have surely stepped in. After all, its existence wasn't exactly unknown on the world stage!
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Oh I didnt mean to say it would have lost its paint by being insitu, but ther would probably have been moved to a museum and undergone a repaint for display. I would have given it aout another three to four months before it would have gone to a museum.
Oh BTW my point is not about where the aircraft is now,but this common excuse of "the aircraft would have rusted away... wouldnt be taken care off.. wouldnt have survived... " is getting a wee bit tiresome
. There were people ready to take it over if they have had a chance.