wendovertom wrote:
Wow - i hope things work out so that the restoration can continue.
As an aside - what in the heck was Lufthansa doing to spend $156 million dollars and NOT get thier plane restored?! it seems to me that there was some funny business going on somewhere.
Tom P.
New management came in at Lufthansa and saw how much money was being spent for so little progress, and immediately pulled the plug. The story goes that the guys working on the project were doing the job as slow as possible for an easy living, complete it too soon and they'd be out of a job. Oversight from the previous Luft' management must have been pretty awful if they didn't pick this up. End result is that the airframe was cut up to transport back to Europe by road and sea, so she will never fly again, and truckloads of useful parts went to scrap. There are some pretty upsetting pics out on the web of all these parts being disposed of. Lufthansa also suspended all heritage ops, so the Ju52 and Bf108 no longer fly. All in all, a disaster.
Best wishes to anyone restoring a Connie, not an easy or cheap thing to do. Here's hoping the work on Columbine II can resume at some point.
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