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RE: The Sea Dragon Fresco from the temple of Isis. Survived the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in Pompei 2000 years ago, destroyed by government two weeks ago.
In one of my posts about a year ago, I mentioned the owner of an ex WW2 Tiger Moth aircraft offering it to the RNZAF.
He lived about 2 hours drive away, and it was decided that it wasn't worth the diesel to go and get it.
With a certificate of airworthness, they change hands at 900,000 to 1 mil dollars now.
Such incredible wastefulness.
I saw it up close in the Aust Army in 96.
Zero respect for the taxpayer.
Hopefully he sat on it long enough to see some of that appreciation.
He had owned it for many years, it was due it's next airworthiness certificate, as a pensioner he couldn't afford it so he was going to give it to a "Good Home". the RNZAF Museum at Christchurch.
We had a civil licenced bloke at Ohakea who could have watched over the work while the airmen did everything.
The training they would have got alone would have been worth it.
The engineer oversaw the rebuild of the Avro 626, the only known pre WW2 aircraft left in NZ.
They stopped flying that one due to the lack of engine spares.