Last Trident 1C scrapped in UK...
From a post on the DH Comet list....
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The last remaining Trident 1C, G-ARPH, was scrapped at Cosford
yesterday, Friday 29 April. The nose was cut at floor level and behind
the flight deck for removal to the East Fortune Museum of Flight, and
the rest is to be taken away for scrap. Papa Hotel was the last
surviving Trident 1C in the world.
Shame on British Airways who withdrew the anyway modest support they
gave to the IWM in maintaining their civil airframes!
Shame on the Imperial War Museum for the dastardly manner in which
they concealed their evil plans from the public! As recently as
December, careful leaks from the IWM urged Trident fans to keep quiet,
assuring them that all manner of "options" were "under examination."
Though by February it was clear that the Trident may be scrapped,
yesterday's action was dirty and stealthy (at night, without any
announcement).
Britain treated both the Trident and the VC10 (Cosford's VC10 is also
being scrapped, with a piece or two going to Brooklands) as a harsh
step-mother, and Papa Hotel's end is an ironically fitting closure to
the saga of mendacity and traduction which Britain's civil aircraft
industry became in its twilight decades.
