vulcan on travels (well the nose anyway)

well vulcans have been known to get stuck under bridges usually when they transported them from chadderton to woodford especially when they put one on the worng low loader.

Aah, yes, the old ‘look for information before blurting out a reply’ strategy. I knew I had forgotten something! 😀

By the way, is it just me or does the railing that can be seen between the truck and the white van on the right indicate a low bridge up ahead? When I noticed it I did feel as if the ‘after’ shot might be a sorry sight, but I’m sure Andy would have rather posted that photo, if that had happened.

Not yet come across a M-way with a low bridge!

Brings back bad memories of 1973 (I think) moving Meteor F.4 EE531 from Lasham to Weston Park, Shrops. – the first of it’s many temporary homes.
We had “surveyed” the route and gave instructions to the lorry driver who decided he knew a better one. Unfortunately his route had a low bridge and he damaged the rear of one of the engine nacelles. It was subsequently repaired and looking at it today at MAM you can’t see the join.
By coincidence a similar thing happened years later whilst moving the F-101 Voodoo to Baginton – I think that got a replacement tail.

Roger Smith.

Aah, yes, the old ‘look for information before blurting out a reply’ strategy. I knew I had forgotten something! 😀

By the way, is it just me or does the railing that can be seen between the truck and the white van on the right indicate a low bridge up ahead? When I noticed it I did feel as if the ‘after’ shot might be a sorry sight, but I’m sure Andy would have rather posted that photo, if that had happened.

Quoteing Thunder & Lightnings website….

” She’s currently being used as a travelling exhibit by Vulcan To The Sky to drum up support for the XH558 Return to Flight project. Information current as of 21/05/2005. “

😉

There was a bit in the news recently about cockpits moving to Flixton. Perhaps this was related?