Blimey there are 70,000 of us!!!

Honouring everyone that made it happen!
“The Spirit of Great Britain – Those who made it happen” – 1999-2015

A wall of honour recognising everyone who made it possible

It will be a massive task, but the Trust is committed to recording and honouring every single person who has donated £1 or more between 1999 and the end of 2015.

Time after time, it has been donations from people from all over the world that has allowed everyone’s dream to become a reality – the most complex aviation restoration project in the world followed by eight spectacular flying seasons – and everyone should be rightly proud of that achievement.

Between now and Christmas, the Trust will be consolidating our various lists and information sources to create a searchable online listing of everyone who has contributed.

Once it is announced and populated, we will give time for it to be checked and corrected if necessary before a final ‘travelling wall’ will be produced for Hangar 3 and placed on display in time for summer. Once the aircraft moves to the new facilities planned, the wall will move with her.

Best of all, if you are a donor you need to do nothing now.

We do the work and our newsletters will give you the full details for checking that your entry is correct before we produce anything final. We estimate over 70,000 names are eligible for this honour.

DO KEEP FOLLOWING THESE NEWSLETTERS FOR GREAT NEW DEVELOPMENTS.

Shop for Christmas at our next Family day – this Sunday 22nd November
BRING THE FAMILY TO SEE XH558 THIS SUNDAY hangar
Our Family Days prove highly popular and this Sunday sees another in Hangar 3. Picture: Taff Stone.

This coming Sunday 22nd November, we open the hangar for another of our very popular Family Days, where admission is by arrival at reception.* Adults are £5 and Children under 16 are £2. This is an ideal way of getting close to XH558, seeing the hangar exhibits and in taking part in a range of family-orientated activities. It is also ideal for Christmas Gift ideas from the Vulcan shop.

Fun and interest for everyone. Give your children one great day out!

Doors open at 11am and close at 2pm. Last admission is at 1pm.

* Other hangar tours require booking in advance

That will be me as well then.

Condolences to the family.

Sure the wife of the passenger would totally agree with some of the comments on here. I think not.

I know the Elvington Victor has, in the past, been the beneficiary of time-expired fuel from one of the big oil companies.

Needless to say such fuel isn’t certified for flight.

Moggy

Nor is the Brunty stuff. Helped refuel one of the Bucc’s before the May CWJs.. No chance of pressure refuelling, pure gravity. The BCWM Jaguar will be the same, when the time comes. However it is likely that we will have to pay for good stuff.. 🙁

Does anyone know if there has been, or, will be, a set of published accounts for XH558 showing what has been spent and what is now left in the kitty ?

I do believe it is a charity. If you have the registration number, the accounts will be on line with the charities commission. Oh everything is accounted as it has to be for the charity status.

http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1101948&SubsidiaryNumber=0

Not entirely true. The poor chap in the RH seat keeps unfairly taking the flak for this, when there were other factors. I won’t go into them, but suffice to say don’t believe all a certain captain recently relieved of his aircraft taxying duties at Brunty says.

Both were at fault then? An aircraft flew when it was not in a legal state to do so. That is the bottom line of the matter. Lucky Tina wasn’t Tanker Trash at the end of it, more by luck that judgement.

VICTOR to the skies

(Image by James Matthews)

Tina or Lindy, I’m not fussed….. The Victors were the true hero’s…. Could fly faster, further, carry more bombs than a Vulcan. It took a dozen Victors to get one Vulcan to the Falklands, but the Vulcan got all the credit. They look as good – Straight out of a Sci fi movie yet they are now consigned to the backwaters of Aviation History while the Vulcan basks in the cold war glory.

I know it will never happen but we can but dream.

Cost less than 23 million to get that one in the air.. Just use a throttleman who hadn’t got a clue what he was doing. I was talking to a RR rep very recently about other things. He mentioned the Victor’s last flight, caused quite a bit of a stir with RR, more so than it did with the CAA.