June 2, 2005 at 1:42 am
Any updates on the Brit project to restore and fly the Vulcan bomber? Has it flown yet?
By: RobAnt - 2nd June 2005 at 15:14
Well, they don’t – yet!
But there have been plenty of discussions along those lines on this board before now.
By: hawkdriver05 - 2nd June 2005 at 03:36
Hope to see it fly. But still puzzleing that they allow a vulcan to fly, but not a lightning……….
By: whalebone - 2nd June 2005 at 02:04
Plenty of contentious opinion here. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42377&page=1&pp=30&highlight=xh558
The long and short is that the engineering feasabilty study has been completed, money has been allocated from the national lottery national heritage fund and the rebuild is about to start.
I think the general worry is that we may end up with an airworthy machine and no funding left to fly it once all the contractors have been paid. In truth the operating company TVOC have been (how shall I put it) slightly less than forthright in dispelling these feelings amongst the aviation enthusiast community.