OK before all the vulcan fanatics descend on East MIdlands to see her running again she doesnt. She hasnt run for a few years now.
What I was after with the thread title was if there are any pics or video clips that anyone has of XM575 when she was still a runner at her old site?
By: andrewman - 27th September 2006 at 14:07
I think they ran up the APU and some systems in August 2004, it has to be said XM575 is in very good condition it could do with a repaint but structurally its fine.
By: Peter - 27th September 2006 at 13:59
Thanks Guys. Any pics of the engine runs?
By: Joe Petroni - 27th September 2006 at 13:34
In the dim and distant past, I was ‘there’ when the main engines were run (only two iirc). Don’t remember any video being shot (video camera’s were a bit of a novelty twenty odd years ago).
I am pretty sure that Harry Holmes from BAE carried out the ground run, they had put in a lot of work, and lent a lot of spares to get the aircraft airworthy for its proposed flight to Bruntingthorpe.
By: bgrose - 27th September 2006 at 12:56
Hi Peter,
As the “Aeropark” is on a new site at the NW end of the runway at N.E.M.A.
The Vulcan is sited in front of three Wessex helicopters and now impractical to run main engines. However we may run the APU at a future time.
Cheers
Brian Rose.
Aeropark Volunteers Assoc.
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