Falklands Commemorative Flypast 17 June 2007

Would not write 558 off the list yet. or on it for that matter, however things are moving along nicely with the fitting of the final control surfaces during last week and replacement of the currently worked on wing area skins well underway, only two areas remain to be done according to the engineers who are the only guys who really know, instruments are expected to be ready for installation around the end of April with the cockpit wiring and pipework being repaired and adjusted ready for this, Crew training moving along with more taking place this week-end as scheduled, So with no additional suprises to date being announced or envisaged by those involved that they care to talk about openly things look as though they are making every realistic effort to have 558 up there on the day.

A multi-engine aircraft requires no advance permission to fly over a built-up area.

Moggy

Three weeks on from competion of a permit flight test ,due to the present work load of the CAA Flight Test Department we are still awaiting the issue of a permit. And this was on a type well known not a first off.
I along with a lot of others will be watching with interest as to the progress.

VULCAN FLYPAST??

Me thinks more chance of a sqdn of FRS1 Sea Harriers flying down over London than the Vulcan.

Bex – I would take him to Kemble on that Sunday. I really would if I was you.

Would love to, but I doubt he’d drive that far as hes disabled & as I have all me limbs I cant drive his car, shame it goes like stink for an auto LoL. If you have any links for Kemble, could u drop em in a PM please 😀 Bex

I hope so too, its my dads birthday too and Im hoping to take him up there for it.

Bex

Bex – I would take him to Kemble on that Sunday. I really would if I was you.

Hope it does fly! 17th June’s my birfday so it would be great!!!!:p

I hope so too, its my dads birthday too and Im hoping to take him up there for it.

Bex

Oddly enough I had already done just that, only to find a statement

‘we can still make it’

Just wondering what it was you have read.

Moggy

Patience Patience Moggy, we all know you are drooling at the prospect of seeing a very fine piece of historic British aero engineering in the skies once more.

Don’t worry it’ll happen.

Hope it does fly! 17th June’s my birfday so it would be great!!!!:p

It does if its on a Permit.

Got there before me !

mick

A multi-engine aircraft requires no advance permission to fly over a built-up area.

Moggy

It does if its on a Permit.

A multi-engine aircraft requires no advance permission to fly over a built-up area.

Moggy

We’ll see

A multi-engine aircraft requires no advance permission to fly over a built-up area.

Moggy

The Vulcan should be airworthy in time, though we have to think about if 558 gets the relevant permissions to fly over a built up area in time.

More Falklands info at www.falklands25.com

Just out of interest, when the aircraft is completely restored, how long is it anticipated to take to complete a test flying programme and to give the crew the currency on the aircraft required for them and the aircraft to participate in the June 17th flypast?

With just seventy odd days to go, can an assurance yet be made that the Vulcan will participate in the commemorative flypast? Or is there likely to be a lot of disappointed veterans on the 17th June?

Before anyone starts accusing me of gainsaying, I sincerely hope they make it. Not so much for the heads of the fundraising campaign, whose efforts have provided less than they promised, but for the engineers and volunteers who have worked so hard, for the countless supporters who have had to dig into their pockets time and time again and for the veterans, whose expectations of seeing the Vulcan at the flypast have been raised.

Regards,

kev35

I would have thought that a Naval review at Portsmouth would have been more appropriate! Seems odd that a flypast is considered an appropriate
event when it was largely a battle fought by the Royal Navy or using their carriers in th case of the RAF GR.3’s.
As for the proposed ‘star’ of the event – the Vulcan whilst dramatic was a side event compared to the number of crews lost by the helicopter and Harrier crews.

Hopefully some Gazelle will took it’s place at the Commemorative Echelon, too. I suppose some of the participants are still airworthy (XX380 & XX409)

Ian
whilst I agree with you about some aircraft, dont forget that the Chinook did an awful lot in the Falklands (specifically one Chinook!). I pray that a Chinook is in the flypast as it was a welcome sight to many and still is.

Support helicopters may not be everyones thing and may not be as glamourous as fast jets etc, but they do amazing jobs that are extremely necessary.

Having a look in on their website this morning it doesn’t seem like there will be a Vulcan thundering up the Mall on June 17 and with no Sea Harriers or Victors flying in the UK, what’s left, the odd Lynx or Chinook or maybe a Wasp or Scout. It’s going to be some flypast !!!!

Sure just enter “Vulcan to the Sky” and click on Search 🙂

Oddly enough I had already done just that, only to find a statement

‘we can still make it’

Just wondering what it was you have read.

Moggy

I’m reliably informed it’s not so much about types as about units – so the Victors, for instance, will be represented by 55(R) Sqn’s current mount – the Dominie.

I’m probably being pedantic however it’s not quite what the MoD website quotes :-

The showpiece event of these commemorations will be on Sunday 17 June. This will consist of a high impact visual event on Horse Guards Parade followed by a march past of veterans and their modern day service counterparts up The Mall to Buckingham Palace to witness a flypast of aircraft from the Falklands era as well as some of those flown by the same squadrons today. Central to the event will be the personal recollections of veterans and Islanders as they tell their stories in their own words.

Yes a link would be nice . haveing seen the Hanger in full swing on 3 shifts
24hrs a day for the last few weeks and progress on the aircraft is thundering along.
this may intrest some if you are at a loose end over the easter break.
go and see for yourselfs the state of XH558.

Hangar Open Easter Sunday
Monday, April 02, 2007 – Tvoc

Denis and his stalwart crew of volunteers are giving up their Easter Sunday to man the hangar. So do not let them be lonely. An exciting visit to view XH558 in her hangar is much better than another Easter Egg.

Open 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Entry by Donation ( suggested £5.00 per adult children free)