Noralpha G-ATDB seems to be hanging on in a horrible state at Prestwick.

Very droll.

…it does nothing for them only for retards who would enjoy seeing articles like this and only advertises the fact that homosexuality is still not accepted by all, while a few who cannot get past the barrier will get enjoyment from this ridiculous story of two insecure people who live together as partners nothing more.

Retards such as yourself then, who feel the need to post two word-stew paragraphs on the matter? :applause: You must enjoy this sort of thing to some extent, no?

On the subject of insecurity, surely the best response to a story like this is to simply say this has nothing to do with me, I shall move on. Two paragraphs of Daily Mail (the 2nd best paper in the UK) comments section copy pasty tends to suggest that this article appealed to you in certain other areas. :dev2:

…just looking forward to my two bites of the seasons final cherry!!

Lucky you! I didn’t see any Scottish dates on VTTS’s web page earlier. 😀 Typical. Schedule an appearance for every village fete in the home counties… its like the Canadian Lancaster all over again. :highly_amused::highly_amused::highly_amused:

I found a discussion on Facebook earlier, on the War History Online page, whereby one commentator was insistent that XH558 money should have been ploughed into a nice static Whitley project somewhere. I think aircraft enthusiasts will criticise anything for the sheer sake of it. :highly_amused:

Perhaps they should send XH558 to RAF Machrihanish for last rites. That way it is in the armpit of nowhere for everybody and we can all share the pain equally. :applause:

VTTS have a blurb about their academy proposal on their webpage. It sounds like a good idea, but I’m not sure what the outcomes would be. To keep the VTTS in a job perhaps? They claim that this academy will take in 80 students a year from the age of 14 (!) up. A nice gesture for sure, but these students will be neither working on a modern airframe or an unmolested historic airframe either. The former will be no good for potential CVs (when you can go to other training colleges and work on modern equipment) and the latter won’t teach an awful lot about airframe conservation, in my opinion. Give the students XM603 from Woodford if you just need a Vulcan-shaped thing to work on.

Having said all that that, the CGI images on their webpage do show some sort of Airbus creation in the same hangar as XH558. The students learn the ropes on the Airbus? I don’t know. If the academy serves to teach students how to carry out ground operation tasks at an airport then the Vulcan is redundant and nothing more than a large college mascot.

Either way I don’t think aviation enthusiasts are the best choice of individuals to consult on the future of XH558, as strange as that may sound. The fastidious nature of the discussion here, be it choosing which airfield is the best spiritual home for this Vulcan or whether this aircraft was the first to do X, or the last to do Y, doesn’t really matter to the vast majority of those who will ultimately financially contribute to the future of XH558. I stood under East Fortune’s Vulcan earlier this year, an airframe which scores more aviation enthusiast Brownie points for being a Black Buck aircraft. This airframe attracts visitors! Apparently this Vulcan is one of the better preserved outdoor specimens, but even it suffers from crazed and faded paint and a rather unceremoniously installed rig to keep the undercarriage in situ. This doesn’t bode well for any other example that is left outside, in my opinion. I cannot comment on other Vulcans to any great extent, but it seems that XM603 at Woodford has gone from ‘ground runner’ to ‘mossy relic’ in just over a decade, and a similar future for XH558 seems plausible. The smaller museums relying on an ageing volunteer force to carry out the sisyphean task of painting and repairing will, ultimately, run out of luck. I generally support the underdogs, but I wouldn’t bank on the future of Vulcans XL319, XM597, XM603 and XL360 to be especially rosy. Vulcans are iconic, and Vulcans bring in the visitors, but they seem to be millstones for anybody brave enough to house one. Rust never sleeps, as Neil Young said.

Really, whenever there is U.S. we can count on a bunch of ill-informed Englishmen to tell everyone what to do.
Not everywhere in the world is like the UK…different people, different cultures, different politics. Get over it. 🙂

Call it a misplaced sense of pastoral care.

…there should also have been a limit to the amount of guns an individual could own.

The number of guns an individual can own surely isn’t the issue here, as they can only fire one or two weapons at any given time (especially with sausage fingers). Surely a bigger problem would be with the quantity of ammo an individual can hoard. Even that argument is purely academic, as I doubt bikers would likely follow any laws regarding this matter, and I also doubt they are any good at maths. In fact, I wager that if they were good at anything they wouldn’t be in a bike gang; perhaps the most visually obvious means of displaying your inferiority complex.

Did you drop the soap again?