I would imagine that in this day and age to scrap the Vulcan the owner would probably have to pay the scrap man to remove it unless you could have it dissassembled and moved to his yard.

Used to get £30 for a scrap car. Now you have to pay them £30 to take it.

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It’s changed back again. I’ve been out of the ali business for 14 years so I’ve no idea of current scrap prices but certainly the price of scrap steel has risen sharply owing to increased demand.

Was anyone else at RAF Gaydon in 1962/63(?) when one of four Victors made a mess-up of a mock 4-minute scramble?

I think it was the second aircraft to move forward off the ORP (operational readiness platform) that carried on straight across the runway until the nosewheel ran off the far side and sank into the grass. How we laughed!!!

The RAF were extremely embarrassed but the laugh was on us, the audience, as the presence of a Handley Page Victor stuck partially across the end of the runway severely curtailled the rest of the flying programme.

I have to say though, other years when it worked as it should it was damned exciting.

Roger Smith.

I think a mate’s told me about that one. I’ll have a word with him later today.

As you sort of said earlier James, the FAA did end up with a fairly staggering series of complete dogs for many years.

You’d have thought somebody would have noticed and kicked some a***s.

The Firebarnd and Wyvern haven’t even got the excuse of the long-standing insistence on multi-role capability.

That would have been Monogram and I think it had a bomb you could drop.

Thanks Albert. I’ve often wondered but I don’t remember the bomb. I was only 7 so I would have thought I would. The completed kit wsn’t very big, 1/100th at a guess.

The B-66 seems to have become forgotten. For years after I built the kit I never saw any references to it in books or magazines.

Good point. It’s a flying tank so no reason why it shouldn’t look like a tank.

In the late 70’s and early 80’s my parents had a static caravan on the former USAAF base at Leiston. I assume it must have been on the approach to Bentwaters as they were low overhead in pairs from morning to night.

You’ve posted some interesting pics over the last few days.

Horrifying to think that what are now museum pieces, or extinct, were still in service when I was born with some years to go in some cases. Spifire, Lancaster, Sunderland, Hornet, Mosquito just to name a few. They were probably still building some of them!

A suggestion: save your pictures as jpg rather than bmp or png. They’ll be a lot smaller and upload and download much quicker.

Is there an echo in here?

Can’t make it, and never have but I must get around to it one year.