This was taken courtesy of Checkflaps on UKAR from the TVOC AGM on Sunday just gone:

Ref Woodford and XM603. She is owned by BAe but TVOC do get first dibs on the parts once the, sadly, destructive testing has been undertaken on the wing spars and other components. BAe are also interested in the tests to see the effects of long term exposure to the elements on large airframes.

Anyone know when these ‘tests’ are to be carried out and the nature of them? 🙁

Down safely at Bruntingthorpe approximately 10 minutes ago.

My congratulations to the team on a hopefully successful conclusion to the test flight program.

I edited my post before to reflect what I meant.

Right, so what you’re really saying is that there are no major sponsors yet, but they thought they’d just tell us that they’re queuing up so that we give more money? Mmm, smart move.:eek:

I’d say it was an extremely smart move, we have an airworthy Vulcan Bomber because of it. No company was/is ever going to sponsor her until she was rebuilt and in possesion of a valid permit to fly. You don’t need to be Alan Sugar to work that out. And as for being ‘sure they’d be queueing out the door to sponsor her’, how could they be so sure?? Do they have a crystal ball?? They’ve used public money to do what they said and that was to get her flying again. She might need public money to stay there.

So, now that we’ve got her flying, and assuming that no one comes forward, where does that leave us? Or worse still, where does that leave the aircraft? “probably still be ground bound or, even worse, leaving Bruntingthorpe in the back of various scrap wagons”???????

At worst, groundbound. However me and the other X-thousand or so supporters/idiots/misguided souls/money to burn merchants/lepers have no intention of letting that happen.

Public subscription scheme? I think thats called an airshow, and at the moment, they need a sponsor to be able to play in that game?

No, airshows are called airshows. They’re called this because the general public pay for a ticket to see aircraft put on a show up in the air. That’s why they’re called airshows and not airsubscriptionschemes. Sally B relies heavily on the Sally B club for a lot of funding IIRC and while the running costs for the Vulcan are of course bound to be a lot higher, this possibility has to be looked at in case this company you’re content in waiting for doesn’t show up…

No, thanks all the same, but i think I’ll keep my believes in TVOC on this one, and wait for them to come and tell us which companies are on that list… I really hope one comes forward.

Like I said above, you can keep your hands in your pocket, like I said, you give because you want to, not because you have to.

Anyway, in the meantime, I’ll quite happily keep throwing money down into the ‘bottomless money pit’ that has made whoever has seen it fly this week, or indeed the last few weeks, wet their Y-fronts with excitement… :rolleyes:

Is Binbrook finally about to vanish then?? 🙁 I’d love a look around there, I know 320psi said it’s a sorry sight to behold now… 🙁

I’d love to get a look around Binbrook. How would you go about it?

Thanks for clarifying some of the info, I wonder if any board users have any pictures of vulcans at valley? I hear they were based here for a short while?

They were never based there but were regular visitors there during dispersals and other exercises.