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By: - 7th May 2020 at 09:08 Permalink
How did the costs get to that level? especially if they bought three to choose from.
By: - 7th May 2020 at 10:36 Permalink
My thoughts exactly. Even in the business of aircraft restoration - which is expensive at the best of times, that sounds a ludicrous amount of money to get to IMO.
By: - 7th May 2020 at 11:56 Permalink
Must have been somebody high up pet project that was allowed to run beyond control. Were they not going to heavily mod the aircraft including a glass cockpit? maybe if they had just rebuilt it to original spec they would have been more sucessful?
By: - 7th May 2020 at 12:56 Permalink
The general consensus in various places is that this project was a very comfy job that was dragged on as long as possible, end result was lots of money for relatively little progress. How Lufthansa kept paying into this project over so many years and not realising what was going on is hard to understand.
End results:
An airline that was backing historic aircraft in a major way has completely backed out of flying any of their aircraft.
The Starliner itself was cut up for transport after the project was abandoned and will certainly never fly again.
Lots of really good spare parts were gathered together for the project, many of which were simply binned when the project was abandoned.
Just imagine what that kind of money could have accomplished in the right hands, it's sickening...
By: - 7th May 2020 at 19:15 Permalink
This project had nothing to do with a restoration, it was an attempt to fly/run an aging passenger airplane with normal paying passengers under current certification rules.
By: - 8th May 2020 at 00:40 Permalink
Geez how many Spits/109,s/Lancasters/Hurricanes/Fw190,s/Mosquitos/Whirlwinds/Halifaxes/Stukas/Typhoons/Tempests/Me262,s/Hamptons,Stirlings/Wellingtons could that amount of money get back in the air?
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By: Stratofreighter - 6th May 2020 at 19:52 - Edited 6th May 2020 at 19:52
...no wonder Lufthansa pulled the plug in the end... ? ?
https://www.aerotelegraph.com/en/failed-refurbishment-amounts-to-150-mi…
https://www.aerotelegraph.com/en/failed-refurbishment-amounts-to-150-mi…