The drastic change in temperature would cause such a contraction/expansion in the airframe that it might jump off it’s jacks……..that was the point when we decided to leave and become masters of our own destiny.

********! Seems to me that this whole project has been taken over by arrogant and greedy ‘consultants’, spin doctors and people who know sod all about aircraft but just want their name to be associated with something ‘national’.

This whole shambles has been dragging on for longer than it used to take to do a Vulcan Major. As with the current government and the NHS, shedloads of money spent on a ‘populist’ project with no discernable affect after years of spin and half-truths.

Gawds help us from touchy-feely professional administrators whose only loyalty is to a spreadsheet and PERT charts and not to the nation’s heritage.

Let the tin triangle die a death I say. Put it back together sufficient to allow taxying once every couple of months. Maybe even hold raffles for cockpit rides to keep a trickle of funds.

Return 558 to the sight of the younger generation of aviation enthusiast. Get rid of the motivation-sapping and costly hangars on and opportunists. If you want to know what a Vulcan looks like in flight, ask an old guy who’s seen it, or go watch a video. If you’re too young to have seen the Vulcan in the luft, well, life sucks doesn’t it!

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steve, log on to google earth, and do a search for american photos, most of the arial photos of katrina damage along the, Biloxi coast are high resolution down to about 100 feet, just download the same picture twice and youre away.

Not that simple, be good if it was but it isn’t. Stero pix depend on a lateral displacement of the subject. This effectively means that if taken from an aircraft the 1st image will be slightly different in vertical angle to the 2nd image due to the aircraft moving on between shots. It is this displacement interval, which can be and is very acurately controlled on PR kites, that gives the stero effect.

Vultee
One avenue for you is to attend aerojumbles or walk round the ‘bits’ stands at airshows. Some mueums may have such stero pairs in their back rooms as well.

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7A2
WJ753, a B.2, built 1954. RAF service with 115 Sqn, 18 Sqn, 61 Sqn then 100 Sqn. You’ll know that it swung of the runway at Marham after a heavy landing on 19 June 1978. Struck Off Charge as Cat 5 four days later. A Cat 5 airframe would soon have been broken up though as there’s no indication it went to Marham’s Fire Dump.

109ster
Your info may be right as 753 was on 61 Sqn during Suez, but it was mostly the PR.7s and Valiants that carried out Target Marking. 61 Sqn’s B.2 Canberras were used as bombers (visual bomb-aiming) so there’s a good chance 753 was used on the missions from Akrotiri.

Apart from the one showing a very interesting scheme and as indicated by 109ster in I’ve no pics, sorry. Maybe Albert? 😀

. . . sorry but you have to be a member to see it, but joining is dead easy and free.

Glad you had a good outing at MAM.

However, in my opinion it’s bad form to post an active hyperlink to a separte forum just to see some images, especially to a forum that doesn’t let visitors view the posts. 😡

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Where the hells that? its not Coningsby by any chance? (I do know where El Adam is).

Ah, sorry, possibly before your time. No, not Coningsby that’s now the centre of the universe since Tertius Primus Erit have taken residence with their Teabags. 😎

No, it’s (or was) the pet<?> name for an airfield not a million miles from Kings Lynn. 😀 😀

Duff Keyboard (that has keys that stick)

Maybe a squirt of WD-40? I reckon you’d get no further trouble from your keyboard after that. 😀

WF922 lights up. All lights that are supposed to work do work. Took the following at a BBQ there back end of last year.

1 – Cockpit under pilot’s flood lighting. Sorry to dash your expecations but a Canberra cockpit doesn’t actually light up like a christmas tree with pretty lights.

2 – At dusk. landing light extended, wingtip and tip tank nav lights on.

3 – Anti-coll

4 – On the line ready for night flying (‘modified’ image).

:rolleyes:

Depleted urainium. Canberra elevator ballast weights.

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