XH558 Roll Out

Nice to see things coming together at last. I’ve waited a long time for this. Great photos

video

Ive posted a video of the rollout on utube…. lanc flypast to follow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZlT3oJGQc

well done to all involved ! as an oem the continuation of this project means I can provide help for the aircraft that first got me into aviation….

Another question, is it just me or does she seem to sit lower than I remember them? COuld be the struts are fully depressurised?[/QUOTE]

Glad someone else answered that!

The gear she currently stands on is temporary and will be replaced with the refurbished ones once they return from the OEM.

She is sitting nose down – apparently she has a lot of ballast in the nose (in place of the radar) to ensure no disasterous tail-sitting occurs. Without the engines in to add weight over the main gear, you get that nose-down attitude….

ah ok I thought maybe they were referring to the lower nose section not thinking they were being smart about the cockpit section :0)

Another question, is it just me or does she seem to sit lower than I remember them? COuld be the struts are fully depressurised?

What was the deal about the nose? Something mentioned here on the forum about the nose falling off or something?

In one of the earlier images on this thread there is a pic of a Vulcan cockpit section. I think someone just made a joke out of it. Thats all.

What was the deal about the nose? Something mentioned here on the forum about the nose falling off or something?

Didnt see or hear anything Peter

roll out

What was the deal about the nose? Something mentioned here on the forum about the nose falling off or something?

fantastic pics – wish I could have seen that! – after all I did see hee land there!

Hi All

Yes Andy i got stuck in the jam on the M1 too
a good day was had
next time first flight
took a load of photos might post some tomorrow but im way too knackered now

Scott C

We stayed around and pulled some weeds out of the Q shed base, so left around 4pm and they were just pulling her back in so got a few shots and then got stuck on the M1 😡

Nice 🙂 You stayed until they put her away …. I dashed off after the speech as I didn’t fancy sitting in a queue to get out or getting stuck in the mud that the field would have become if it had rained again!!! (it was a red sports car and not designed for cross-country work! 😀 )

Just a few of mine from a great day in the Bruntingthorpes history and of course 558’s

Cheers
🙂

Good grief, that looks like a big fire in that hangar judging by the smoke, glad they got the Vulcan out in time….

😀

Steve – great pics! 🙂

Nice to see her surrounded and looking loved!

Steve, nice photos and good to know theres another wolves fan in Leics.

Neal

please don’t take offense

take offence? not likely….guess who I support…. 😉

Maybe they can have a flypast over the ground when Wolves go back to the Premiership next year…. 🙂 🙂

Lovely. Nice to know that a real thunderbird will again take to the air soon.

Irreverent Edit – Sorry, can’t resist

SteveSS4L and those responsible for the original reason for the original logo, please don’t take offense, I hope you don’t mind me taking a irreverant speculative view of what we might expect next year:

If I were the project boss I would be having a quiet word with the fitters who were responsible for bolting on the nose section too – good grief they only pushed her out and it came away completely…. 😮 :diablo:
Or was it a stab on the brakes too far? :diablo:

Seriously now – lovely dramatic shots and tantalisingly close to the big day now I hope 🙂

…..Will it be at Legends 2007?

I’ll get me coat 😀