My heart sunk reading these posts! At least she’s still there, not for much longer though. Here is what an engineer said on the Vulcan to the Sky forum:
“I’ve heard now that nothing is being removed at the minute. Best we can do to find out is to stand and watch from the perimeter fence I reckon…”
You’d be quite correct in that assumption XL391, the items were removed last week.
As Smiler correctly stated, we at TVOC had a wish list of spares that we required from XM603 to help us along with XH558. This, as stated, was agreed with Woodford, and two TVOC engineers went up last week to remove these spares. These spares were mainly in the form of pipe clamps, ducting, relays and electrical panels etc. We will no doubt be needing a few more of this kind of item at a later date also.
This is nothing too unusual, indeed, many museum Vulcans have donated spares to XH558 and none of the parts recovered have altered XM603’s structural stability. They have unfortunately meant that XM603 will no longer be able to have electrical power applied to her though.
The fate of XM603 seems to be sealed, however, sad though it is, this will mean that the three remaining living, breathing examples of the Avro Vulcan will be able to stay that way for many more years to come.
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