Vulcan XM575 Restoration News

Greatp pics on the interior! It is good to see she is still kept somewhat live!

Photo’s from in 575’s Cockpit 🙂

Isn’t that Mach-meter a little optomistic? Would it have ever moved very far?

Excellent lit up pics, how do you maintain the electrics live like that?

Isn’t that Mach-meter a little optomistic? Would it have ever moved very far?

Probably would’ve got to about 1.05 in a dive, otherwise, not really. The same kind of dial can be found in the hawker hunter, another aircraft where acheiving a supersonic speed is highly unlikely.

Wish I could say the same for her belly XD
Its currently taking on a look of the black buck kind of colour scheme (Grey primer)

Just out of curoisity does anyone know where i could find any video footage of XM575 in flight? I’d like to see true evidence that she was once a living, breathing war machine.

Looking much healthier now!!

Quick update on the resotoration, we’ve finally started the underside of the wings and things are progressing well. Hopefully in the next few weeks they’ll be painted up putting it one step closer to the finishing point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5XDmowBw-s

Aswell as this video being pretty cool in itself the camoflaged vulcan taking off at the end of it looks a wee bit like 575. The only proof i have of this is the twin flat plates on the bottom of the engines which are… ECM? i forget. either way 575 has two and its one of only a few (possibly the only one) fitted like this.

EDIT:
Turns out it isnt 575. Its XL389, the only other Olympus 301 engined vulcan to be fitted with the twin ecm plates. On the dvd (classic british jets: vulcan) it is just possible to make out the 101sq emblem on the tail fin before she launches herself skyward.

Well done XL569!

There was I thinking that you might still be in there!!:eek:

Well, we used a bucket with a sealable top in the end, as far as i know the septic tank on 575 was removed long ago, if it had one at all. I’ve seen pictures of it in goose bay so it probably did. Fortunately all 3 of us only had to use it once. I can officially say it was the longest 16 hours of my life and i dont plan on doing it again anytime soon. On a lighter note, we’ve raised around £200 for comic releif, which is pretty good considoring it was planned and organised in 6 days.

Hopefully this winter we’ll be able to restore the cockpit, there’s some corrosion on the inside of the windows and the paint in the instrument panel is a little uneven and untidy.

well depends if the crew get a pee break or not or do they have to stay in the cockpit for 16 hrs LOL

I was talking about on the original Ops – the ‘additional free-standing mod’ was referred to at a talk given last year by John Laycock! 😮

well depends if the crew get a pee break or not or do they have to stay in the cockpit for 16 hrs…

:diablo: Ah, but what about top secret mod ….
No.2s free standing Elsan???? 😉 :diablo:

Peter, Relief tube ? Explain :diablo:

Ah that explains it… 16 hrs eh? hope the relief tube still works !!

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Peter,

Probably being sponsored to stay inside the aircraft for 16 hours [length of time airborne for the Black Buck Raids!??!] to raise money for Comic Relief [a national / international fund raising campaign held yesterday in UK].

:diablo: It’s a British thing!!!:diablo:

:diablo: = the closest I could get to a ‘red nose’

Peter, a Red Nose is one of the Comic Relief symbols!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/comic_relief/

16 hours in the cockpit of XM575

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Comic relief Falklands comemoration tomorrow 6am to 10pm.
16 hours in the cockpit of XM575. Should be a tough one.
A first since ’82?
🙂

Hi Peter
We fitted the intake blanks today after they had been repainted as we are to get a visit next Sunday from the Vulcan group at Bruntingthorpe. You may have heard about it they are having a 24 hour scramble,15 Vulcans visited in 24 hours midnight to midnight, I wish them well, they should get to us at lunch time.

Dave

Hi

I will be hosting them at 1500 on the 22nd at Waddington so they can get pics of XM607 ! I really hope they do well !

Hi Peter
We fitted the intake blanks today after they had been repainted as we are to get a visit next Sunday from the Vulcan group at Bruntingthorpe. You may have heard about it they are having a 24 hour scramble,15 Vulcans visited in 24 hours midnight to midnight, I wish them well, they should get to us at lunch time.

Dave