I sat in the co-pilots seat in the Nimrod AEW when they did full power engine ground runs, what an amazing sound, not too dissimlar to the vulcan noise i thought. Finningley was a massive place that had lots of money spent on it i believe, why they closed it i’m not sure most likely to its second line role, also it didnt have any HAS buildings so it becoming front line again was unlikely. Around South Yorks was rich pickings for RAF bases, Finningley, Lindholme, Bircotes, Worksop, Doncaster, Firbeck, Gamston and Snaith not far away, now all gone Finningley been the last:(

was defo a vulcan there, was stored at the far side of the airfield, i had a photo from the 88 airshow, now lost:mad: when i did my school work experience during 92 i asked and told she had been scrapped a few years before, just wondered if the cockpit had been saved

Cheers for the info, cant wait to see it when the wings are attached

it looks alot worse than it actualy is, as you can see theres no superchager, and the reduction gear at the front was broken. I did take some new photos at the weeknd of it as it is now but something went wrong with the camera, will take some more soon. All i can say at the moment is the engine has one of the heads off to inspect the internals, see what needs replacing and cleaning, a new superchager has been obtaind, prop hubs going away to be sorted.

The aircraft or wot we recoverd is now in South Yorkshire, the merlin is currently been stripped to see what needed to make it a runner again, its good but does need abit of work, well it has been in the ground 60+ years! She must have gone in with a dead engine we think because of the good condition of the merlin. The crash site was in East Yorkshire, sorry cant give anything away as to the precise location at the moment, you now how things are every man and his dog will be there looking to see if they can find any bits. Think we will be going back over the site again this year just to check to make sure we havnt missed anything.

Will put some pics up at the weeknd:)