Chox,
The jack may be there as a result of the structural tests e.g stress jacking the wing.
Also, where did your assumption that the chaps there are mostly ex-Hatfield? That may be true of 20 years ago but not so now. Several rounds of redundancies and the closure of the civil manufacturing program sorted that out. 🙁
As for the dwindling number of Vulcans, how many museum examples have perished in the last 10/15 years? Not many. Their upkeep is down to us visiting and funding their preservation. XM603 never had that luxury. So let’s support the many good examples in museums and use 603’s parts to help them.
Cheers.
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