wow 3 movies!!!

That looks too clean a break to be carbon fibre failure, that looks much more like the bonding of 2 sections has failed

i was going to put somthing similar, since there are no broken fibres, and the nose isnt hanging on by fibre threads, but the text did say that it didnt break at a joint……i suppose it could be a layup joint in the mould (layups with no overlap?!) which isn’t neccessarily visible on the finished tub.

i remember reading somthing about vibration fatiguing in the tail cone from the propellors as being fairly critical…..I believe burt still uses his. Cool airplane, don’t know whether I would want to own one purely on the basis of maintenance costs.

What I can’t understand is the massive additional £ 695K that Marshall Aerospace required, where did all this extra money go to, I’m pretty sure it didn’t go on their engineers salaries!

The other point I would like to pick up on would be wether the overhaul by Marshall Aerospace was agreed at a fixed price or not, there should be no grey areas, the statement

‘because we set expectations with MA from day one that the project was in essence a fixed price one’.

This word essence, I would like to see how this was worded in the contract.

I currently run a small business and have learn’t from bitter experience to allow for the unforseen when we provide a quotations for jobs, This is common sense and I’m sure Marshall Aerospace would have done so within their original costings, its not as if the Vulcan is new type or some technological break through, its a know quantity that is relatively low tech.

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Septic.

1. fully agree septic, i would have thought that a cisco director would have nailed the contract down a bit better than that!

2.I don’t agree thatthe vulcan is a known entity within the engineering world anymore. there will be few people in the engineering world who will be familiar with the calcs of this aircraft…perhaps a few more on the maintenance side, mainly centred around the existing aircraft, but in the current commercial world I would be interested to see if the calcs still even exist, let alone anyone who wrote them still being around (and having to deal with other peoples hand written calcs (for fairly modern projects!) at times, I would’nt want that job!)