Hi! Just a question that I had with regard to the Vulcan at Hendon…..
How on earth did they manage to get her there? I was there yesterday and there was a plaque on the bombing blister which said it was brought there between jan and june 82 or thereabouts….. It must have been an absolute feat as Aerodrome road has a very low bridge just past the Peel centre and the other way via Mill Hill is equally as hairy for a load of that size…. I can only think that she was brought there via Edgware road, and then down past Colindale tube but I simply can’t work out how they even did it that way…..
Does anyone have any photos of this? I would love to see how it was done and how many parts she was split into.
There is also a non standard fairing over where the TRF blister should be, home come this is here? was she damaged in transit? Also, is it true that she has no engines fitted? What other parts were removed during disassembly and not fitted back?
Paul.
By: keithmac - 16th January 2003 at 23:42
RE: Vulcan at Hendon…….
Sorry Der! Missed the Argie connection!!
KeithMac
By: Der - 16th January 2003 at 22:18
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Nah- it was the reference to “Argies” scratched on the nose-just curious.
By: keithmac - 16th January 2003 at 21:13
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Der, If your linking Black Buck with TFR, your on the wrong track. TFR was Terrain Following Radar, installed when the Vulcan was switched from high level nuclear bombing to low level penetration. Even though the TFR was an early model, a lot of the circuitry within it was still classified when the Vulcan was withdrawn from service. The Black Buck raids were high level conventional raids, so they probably never even switched it on!
KeithMac
By: Der - 16th January 2003 at 20:51
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Was this a Black Buck Vulcan then?
By: keithmac - 16th January 2003 at 20:21
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 16-01-03 AT 08:23 PM (GMT)]You may also note that the main undercarriage doors, (the large forward square ones) are closed. This could not happen on an operational airframe, gear down, doors down. No other combination is possible. When I pointed this out to the museum I got a very feeble excuse about it being so that the public would not walk into them. But to an ex Vulcan man it’s really annoying when the aircraft is displayed in a totally impossible configuration. Aaahhhh! As for the TFR it was probably removed because the equipment within the unit was still at the time classified, and so some sort of fairing had to be fitted.
KeithMac
By: Paul Cushion - 16th January 2003 at 19:47
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 16-01-03 AT 07:48 PM (GMT)]Oh wow! Thanks so much for that! See what I mean about the big white patch on the nose? On the patch, I could just make out the work ‘Argies’ scratched into it!
Paul.
By: Ant.H - 16th January 2003 at 19:04
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Blimey!Cheers for those Andy.I never realised they broke her down so far for transit.If they had decided to dimantle her like this,then why on earth did they torch the wingtips off?? I’d been told that she was towed to Hendon and the wingtips had to go to give clearance,but why wasn’t she just left like this and reassambled on-site?
By: British Canuck - 16th January 2003 at 17:24
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I found these pictures at the “Vulcan in Camera” Web site.
They were taken by Bruce Woodruff.
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