Well done Neil!!!!, I hope to come and see them all some day, will you be at Brunty this weekend?.

Kindest regards,

John.

How strange this thread has been bumped at exactly the same time I was given a video that has some superb footage of them rebuilding XB259 at the Transport Museum at Beverly.

A lot of the manpower and equipment used to do this in the early eighties was donated by local engineering firms and voulenteers, the comentator goes on to say that this converted into money terms equated to roughly £300,000 !!!.

One thing that did interest me was that once XB259 was whole again the Museum started a fundraising effort for the restoration and up keep of her, this took the amusing for of the Beverly Rivet Owners Club, the idea being that anyone could purchase a rivet from XB259 at the cost of £1.
There was a total of around 400,000 rivets in the Beverly so if succesfull then there would be enough money raised for her up keep, of course they kept the rivet and you never actually knew wich one was yours 😮 .

What has happened to the Beverly Rivet Owners Club and could the resurection of such a scheme help her now?

Regards,

John.

This is the best I can offer (cheesy I know!!) comming from the digital generation LP’s are an endangered species in my house.

Regards,

John.

WOW some more brilliant shots of the Viggens!, the prototypes look in fantastic condition considering they are stored outside, thanks for the info on the Bloodhound.

Regards,

John.

Come over and introduce yourself John

Andy

I said I would come and see you all at the QRA day but got cought up in the excitment of meeting John Spencer and Jimmy Dell both on the same day 😮 , I will make sure that I come and say hello this time.

Regards,

John.

OK, I have held my breath long enough and kept my fingers crossed dreaming of the day she might take to the air again but the time has come to reside myself to the FACT that for the foreseeable future she will NOT fly.

I applaud the comments of Flipflopman and all others in these threads that have staunchly defended all those who have rubbished the cause from day one but things are now pretty clear, the startling gaps in the so called ‘business plan’ and major logistical incompetence’s have brought this project to it’s knees and the drop of the executioners sword is only a matter of days away.

One of the most incompetent decisions that have brought me to this conclusion is the recent topic of undercarriage, If you work to a tight budget and deadline then why on earth have they fitted a so called ‘spare’ set to get her out of the hanger?, as has been said you could fit the undercarriage in one week but is that not one week wasted in both labour time and cost if you only have to take them off again and replace them with the reconditioned set?.

This to me is utter madness, where do you source a full set of spare Vulcan undercarriage and at what cost? 1, 2, 3, 5 thousand, and just how much does it cost in labour to put them on (1 week) and then take them off again and replace with the new set (1 week or even longer), the labour cost for this would be astronomical in comparison to leaving it on the jacks until the new set arrives, I am sorry to say this but this sort of logistical/financial incompetence is unforgivable.

I will be visiting Bruntingthorpe on the next open day and will make every effort to see XH558 with my own eyes and hear with my own ears what the team has to say about her future, but I feel now that the future for her is very bleak.

Regards,

John.

Where do I start?, Having read this thread with the hope that it was either a misguided rumour or just a leg pull I am now faced with the stark fact that yet another unnessacery violation of our aviation heritage is taking place.

My heart goes out to all those involved with the Avro Heritage Trust and her restoration, One has to feel sorry for those who put in time, money and effort only to be told by some beurocratic twit that they are not welcome any more…….WHY?.
If H&S bulls**t had been around at Woodford when they were building Vulcan’s then I think that they would never have got into the air and our world might have been a very different place.

This magnificent tin delta ruled the skies at a time when our national security was in danger and when the need for a deterrent/strike plan was paramount and conceived well before the birth of those now in charge her final destiny.

I only hope that those who make the decision of what will happen to her and when will hang their heads in shame and come to regret it, sadly this will not happen.

One also has to hope that when it does come to it, she will be dismantled sympathetically and that as many spare parts will be salvaged and gifted to other organisations so that other Vulcan’s will benefit and that at the very least the nose section will be preserved as a tribute to what she stood for and all those who worked on her.

Regards,

John.