I noticed that someone suggested that XM597 at East Fortune should be safe, but does anyone actually know it’s true condition. It’s been on outside display since it’s arrival back in ’84.
Until the last few years visitors to the museum could getup close and indeed under the Vulcan, but now is barried off.

There was a sugestion that the only thing holding it together was rust and cobwebs, and was now deemed to be unsafe for visitors to be allowed under hence the barriers.

Does anyone know the truth on XM597?

I was up there a few weeks back, and she’s beginning to show her age now. Quite a few of the panels are frilly…. As for the ‘unsafe’ thing – I don’t know.