It’s come up in a lot of the threads on the forum but without much detail. Wickipedia mentions it, but as per many with scant detail.

It was the free spending (defense wise) Thatcher governement that was said to have looked into it, but it was short lived with the jigs having been scrapped etc.

Around the same time, the US looked (in brief) at taking the B-58’s out of mothballs and putting them back into service.

Presumably, the same free spending (defence wise) Thatcher government that brought about the Falklands confict, thanks to the defence cuts being implemented, and the same Thatcher government that the recent release of cabinet papers etc showed the cuts in public (including defence) spending she was prepared to inflict.

I only raise this because lots of people in this parish seems to think that a change to a Tory government in a few months time is going to be a windfall for defence contractors and the armed services.

History suggests this to be a false hope.

Doesn’t the Science Museum have one already down in Wroughton?

For those wanting to see the financial figures etc, here is a link to the appropriate page on the Charity Commission website where the Vulcan To The Sky Trust accounts are available.

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/DocumentList.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1101948&SubsidiaryNumber=0&DocType=AccountList

Yes, it could have been returning from a deployment – it was a long time ago, and I was only a child at the time, but they were definitely Thunderchiefs.

I remember in Aug 1990 having a tour of the storage hangars at Shawbury – I was a cadet there & at that time they had a number of ex-RAF Germany Buccs there (ex-15 & 16Sqn). Why is this relavant? Well I distinctly remember some of them had been zapped & the zap was a black silouette of an F-105. I clearly remember thinking, could these have been aircraft of the squadron I saw returning to the States from Germany many years before?
Of course they might have also been Bucc’s that participated in Red Flag…

The last time Thuds came to Europe was in August 1981 when 18 of them went to Denmark on the Coronet Rudder deployment.

http://sharpshooter-maj.com/html/deploy81.htm#d12

Saved me asking where it was 🙂

There is a wonderful thread about survivors on the Guardian Unlimited media message board. Hilarious….

The Zhukovsky scrap dump? Here it is in 1993…

and UR as well, amongst other prefixes