One More For The Scrap Heap

The Manston Bucc, XV864, is no further forwards in her possible move as far as I know.
Everything concerning her seems to have gone rather quite and the chances of her moving during the Winter are quite remote.

One machine that will be moving fairly soon is XW544 at Shawbury. The guys are waiting on the attachment bolts for the wing D-sling to come back from remanufacture, then its off to Bruntingthorpe to position along slide XX894 & XX900, so it will not only be Thunder City who have three Bucc’s in the same place, although sadly, the Brunty Bucc’s will always be ground bound!!:(

Any news on the Manston Bucc moving??

“I do sometimes look at my saucepans and wonder whether they saw action over the Ruhr in a previous life.”

You really ought to get out more.

Indeed, MDF, she is a bad way, my reporter says that the left-hand side of the pilot’s position is in a real mess.

Anyone whom take’s this section on has a major job on their hands.
Lets just hope that some of her goes to helping other projects.

XT272

Having seen XT272 last December with a view to putting it in a museum, I would have to say that whoever takes on the nose is in for a big job. It has been extensively fire damaged with little of the internal structure of the front cockpit remaining. The rest of the airframe was very corroded. It was possible to put a finger through the spar web supporting the main landing gear!! It would have been great to save it, but the time and money would have been out of all proportion to the end product, better to put the effort into continued support for those that are already in safe hands.

Sad.

I do sometimes look at my saucepans and wonder whether they saw action over the Ruhr in a previous life.