About 30 seconds research provided the rationale behind the routing, places which played a part in the development of the aircraft, and which are away from the normal display routes. There is one fly past being carried out at a memorial at the request of a major sponsor. Seems fair enough to me.

Approximate timings will be posted tomorrow, with updates on Twitter on the day.

Snoopy, I think Joe was using the pipe smoking as a metaphor for how Bader was being talked about.

,:D

I was actually being sarcastic.

Whilst I appreciate there was a lot of pipe smoking back then, the program portrayed just about everybody smoking a pipe, which just turned them into caricatures.

A bit like these two in fact.

Thanks for the replies.

I remembered a box you could sit on, to the LH side of the door pit, but didn’t recall any harness being in that position, so was wondering if this was an ‘official’ crew position.

Come to think of it, last time I was in a Vulcan, was 558 at Waddo, and that was nearly 20 years ago. 😮

This place;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-18443044

And one of these;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito

That is all.

Exactly – that’s all it would take but apparently they can’t. (or won’t)

They do via Twitter and Facebook all neatly tied in to the Vulcan ‘app’.

Here is a rough cut and paste from Sunday’s messages, the actual times would have appeared on the day. Start from the bottom.

This service now closes for today. Have a great evening. Best wishes from all of the team.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Thank you for following us. Sign up for our free newsletter for more details on our September flights. Sign up off our home page.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
XH558 now shutting down engines.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
See here for more details: http://bit.ly/Qnh2FT

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Please help us undertake a Jubilee Tour later this month…

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Returning to stand….

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan landed safely …

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
ETA at Robin Hood 17:10

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Visual at Robin Hood.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Inbound to Elvington.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan overhead Skipton.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Blackpool complete, now enroute Elvington over the Pennines.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Southport complete enroute Blackpool.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Commencing run into Southport to display

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Holding just off coast south of Formby

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan flying up the Mersey at Liverpools request.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Woodford complete enroute Southport via Hawarden.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan overhead Woodford ….honouring 60 Glorious Years.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Carfest complete enroute Woodford

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Running in to display at Carfest

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Holding by Crewe to display at Carfest at 1540

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan through East Midlands – Carfest next look out Chris Evans

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan enroute East Midlands

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Display complete at Cosby

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan displaying Cosby

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
558 abeam Melton.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan passing Grantham enroute Leicester.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Vulcan XH558 airborne

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Taxi …

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
All engines started …

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Engine start

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Today’s captain after rapid promotion through the ranks, 37 years as co-pilot, is Bill Ramsey.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Crew in

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Today’s crew are: Bill Ramsey, Kev Rumens and Phil Davies.

9 SepXH558‏@XH558
Good morning from a lovely Robin Hood Airport. Today’s departure is due at 14:40 and the flight is estimated to last around 2 hrs 30 mins

Can I ask what more do you want?

Even the chap that scrapped this aircraft didn’t want to scrap as it was in such good condition.

I understand it was offered for sale at what it stood him, but there were no takers, although a chap from Duxford did turn up just after the wings had been chopped off!

10/10. Looking forward to the next one.

Ironically, I believe it is the same going back in the opposite direction, ie; you have an aircraft that has been ‘modified’ with a different engine somewhere along its life and now you want to turn it back into the aircraft with its original powerplant and have to do this through a CAA mod approval. A point in case might be the Hangar 11 PRXI PL965 which I believe is now re-united with its original mark of engine, if not one of its actual original previously installed engines?

This might be so. If however the engine you now want to fit had been approved in another Spitfire of the same mark, ie let’s say the engine you want to fit in PL965 is the same that was approved to be fitted in PL983 then you could quote the Airworthiness Approval Note that was issued for 983 as justification for its fitment into 965.

This may have changed, the CAA tightened things up a few years ago after a few irregularities and I have been out of the historic game for a long while.

For an interesting example of an AAN see here:

http://www.caa.co.uk/aandocs/22658/22658000000.pdf