Count me in for an initial £100 with more to follow to aid the restoration,

Is there a preferred county/area for restoration/storage and display?

I guess delivery of money would be acceptable once the hurdle of initial purchase price and acceptance by the current owners is sorted?

Cmon Guys dig in –

Rocketeer – to some it may sound a regimmental scheme – but it sounds a fair and agreeable arrangement to me.

correct wildcat – folks keep hold of your money until the whole plan has fallen into place! 🙂

Plenty of hard work for us all there. I would love to get my hands dirty!! 😉

Just need more forumites to offer there support towards purchasing and preserving it now…! At the moment totalling up what people have actually physically offered looking at about 1K in the kitty so far. Others have offered but so far have yet to put a price to their offer so to speak 🙂

Oh and need somewhere to store/display it…. 😉

Sounds good to me! 😀

What do other forumites think?

If I had my way, I would like this project to be a ‘peoples project’,
i.e. a share scheme. So the cost of initial purchase and transport to a suitable museum or location would be worked out and then converted into a number of share certificates. That would get XL391’s nose saved.
The actual restoration could be in the form of additional shares, i.e. a fund of £500 to buy materials. With any luck our workforce would be made up from the shareowners and any museum staff.

This may seem a little regimented, but it gives the average enthusiast the chance to have shared ownership for a small cost, i.e. £100 a share. Shares when someone wants to sell would be available to the group members first. This would therefore be run on the same basis as group ownership of an operating aircraft.

Just my thoughts, but I feel there are many on this forum who would probably like the idea of part ownership of the ‘People’s Vulcan’ cockpit and could afford the modest charge of say £100 to £150 per share?

Thanks for offering your support 903 🙂

Knowning XL391 as I do, the internal state is not good. When I looked at buying it, I made the decision that if I did I would strip inside and restore the external to A1.
Trust me inside is bad and you have to assume whats in there is scrapped and therefore you have to scratch build any items. Unless our current goverment would allow a restoration group strip one of the USA Vulcans for cockpit parts??
I hear the scrapy dropped the cockpit 3 times when scrpping it.

I for one would support the saving of XL391 nose, it has a personal attachment to me.

Where would it go? Those who worked on it must be insured to do so if on private propert – a museum as an example. This world is full of H&S issues these days.

I might be able to help having XL391 mounted as I have a spare rear craddle mounting stand that I might part with (costing nearly £2000) and I known of a front tressle that could be borrowed.