She’s probably not long for this world to be honest Peter…
A Great Big Shame… 🙁 An F1A as well… 😡
From the Excellent Vulcans In Camera website:
And the website itself:
Love to see an airworthy Mossie… 🙂
She is a Beauty!! 😉
Goodnight and God Bless, Ray. Rest In Peace 🙁
I can probably guess 🙁 but whatever happened to RAF Woodvale’s Phantom, and, if the inevitable did happen, when did it happen? 🙁
My source also indicated that other aircraft at Cosford, in addition to the Lightning and Sabre, will mounted in ‘imaginative’ attitudes.
I’ve heard the Vulcan is being mounted as if she is just lifling off.
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Shorty,
The nosewheel leg is already in two pieces, held together by a clamp. I don’t think you would tow her far! The main u/c units are also buried as well… 😉
Any developments with XM172 yet? :confused:
Unsure, I imagine you would have to hit it with some bloody force to break that…
XL391 – I cannot see why the CAA would not allow people to see her being rebuilt. The control of access to her is in the hands of the company rebuilding her . A great number of aircraft at Duxford are under rebuild and whilst there are measures taken to control the materials used and the standards of work carried out – access to actually view an aircraft isn’t a problem.
I believe for a crisp £50 pound note you can view her progress – I don’t know whether that is a CAA approved £50 pound note or a bog standard Bank of England example!
You’re right, there is no reason why the CAA wouldn’t allow it by the look of it. I can’t see any reason at all, but this way raises money…. 😮
XL391.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Concorde appears to me nothing more than a twisted eyesore.
You should’ve gone to Specsavers!
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Kev35
I don’t recall that I said YOU wanted her scrapped. I said, in general, that all we talk about is the negative aspects of her return to flight, or her non return. VTTS did say she would be scrapped if money could not be found, which when you think of the cost of re-assembley, probably would have, sadly, been the only road to go down.
With regards to 391, I wasn’t asking owners or operators to put in bids. I was talking about Blackpool’s No 1 aircraft preservationist to donate bits that are of any use (which won’t be much) to various worthy causes i.e. the bombing window to 824 at Dux, which won’t happen.
And regarding Volunteers working on the aircraft, if you are that concerned, why not ask VTTS yourself? I have asked a number of question regarding the project and have always got a satisfactory reply within a day. I would imagine that it is because the CAA will not allow it, which shouldn’t really come as any surprise seeing that as it is a four engine complex nuclear jet bomber that is going to be flying around the countryside and not a wee Cessna.
I couldn’t see why the state of 391 would directly influence whether you would donate to better Vulcans or not. The only thing it would probably make you think is ‘my god, what an absolute s*** tip that is’. It may even encourage people to donate to the better ones…
At the end of the day, she is a gonner, beyond rescue and what really winds me up is the way he is determined to get his dough back on her one way or another. Whats the bet he isn’t taking that engine out for ya or anything else for that matter…..
If anything, she should be salvaged for the other Vulcans to benefit from her. 824 at Dux needs a new bombing window because some idiot has smashed it. I would like an Olympus 301 coffee table as well!!
It just winds me up sometimes that we only ever seem to talk about 2 Vulcans on here, one is 391, the other is 558. When its 391, its all ‘scrap it, scrap it’ and with 558 it’s ‘a waste of money, they’ll never do it’ or ‘scrap it!’ It’s boring, but, thats peoples opinions, which everyone is entitled to.
Yeah, she certainly wasn’t cheap….. 😉