Ive just posted this to UKAR too.

The fast taxiing element of her retirement will be used as a money spinner for them.

Can you really see the Airport Authorities allowing a few thousand Vulcan fans airside next to the runway to watch 558 put through her paces, paying or non paying? No chance. You’ll be watching from the fence. The logistics of getting people in, organised in position and out afterwards would take ages, detracting from the main purpose for the existence of the place: an airport.

I think it’s more realistic that VTTS will charge a much smaller group decent money to see her taxi, maybe as part of a whole days ‘experience’, watching her started up etc.

FFM, I agree with what you’re saying to an extent but I think we should all wait for the enquiry into this terrible incident to reach it’s findings and then decide whowhat was wrong. The fact that Dave Stock couldn’t eject from this is the biggest tragedy, the circumstances surrounding the crash sound so familiar to how Lightnings used to behave in service, one reason why the CAA won’t let them fly here any more.
The big issue is to why that poor bloke could not eject after trying three times. I have a Thunder City DVD I was watching a couple of days before where he was putting a paying customer through ejection seat training. His words were ‘I never have and I have no intention of ever using the ejection seat’. Sadly ironic that in this situation, maybe he could have saved himself and was unable to do so…

I’m still numb even thinking about this, for the loss of the machine, without doubt, but the fact that this fatality could possibly have been avoided. That is the biggest tragedy. Rest In Peace Dave, Blue Skies… 🙁

i saw her at RAF manston air day 94, and i will never forget it!

It’ll have been earlier than that, she was grounded at Bruntingthorpe in March 1993, 1992 being her last full season.

From VttS Website:

The Vulcan to the Sky Trust (VTST) and Marshall Aerospace are deeply disappointed and saddened to have to announce that the planned displays of the Vulcan at the RAF Waddington International Airshow on 4th and 5th July have had to be cancelled.

As part of the 2005-7 Major servicing, a number of structural inspections had to be deferred, because it was not feasible to complete them on XH558’s airframe. It was planned by VTST and Marshal Aerospace, in agreement with BAE Systems and the Civil Aviation Authority, that these inspections would be carried out before the renewal of XH558’s Permit to Fly on 3rd July 2009, using the airframe of BAE Systems-owned Vulcan XM603 at Woodford, as part of the scrapping process of this aircraft. Unfortunately, despite best intentions, it has not yet proved possible to complete or establish mitigations for all these inspections. Consequently, we have currently not fully met the conditions that would enable the issue of XH558’s Permit to Fly renewal.

XH558 is however is fully serviceable and ready for flight, and Marshall Aerospace together with VTST and BAE Systems are doing all they can as quickly as they can to resolve this unexpected, one-off issue within the next few days. We are very sad that it is not going to be possible for the Vulcan to display at Waddington over the weekend of 4th/5th July.

Great pics Paul, thanks for posting them. 🙁

Seen this yesterday, gutted to see it to be honest. Yesterday, there was half a hangar still up and today, the lot was down bar the walls of the one nearest to Burtonwood service station junction. 🙁

Gutted that i’m missing this this year :(, always a great day out!! 🙂 Is it going to be the normal crew with Dave Thomas, Mike Pollitt & Barry Masefield exercising her as usual this year?

certainly looks like Vulcan parts to me….especially the U/C door

Flipflop Man is right, they are 99% certainly Vulcan parts. These will be all that now remains of XL392, last flown to RAF Valley on the 24th March 1982 for the fire dump and her charred remains scrapped in August of 1993.