What’s happening like? Are we starting on the Vulcan tyres? Also we have got some vulcan pilot manuals off Ebay just too see if they have any good info for us.

Regarding sunday, just hope you’re feeling strong, not giving any secrets away yet

Our newly donated timber began turning up today thanks to these guys:

Timber Supplies
Ayres Quay
Farringdon Row
Sunderland
Tel : 0191 567 0947

The owners are very keen on helping charitable causes especially when it involves old aeroplanes – they are regular visitors to NEAM.

The sleepers will begin to arrive on monday – 3 truck loads!

Now… where to put it all.

It should be a good day on sunday, so we’ll have a photo fest!

Thanks to that photo from Misha, and another which I have managed to get digitally remastered, I can now reveal that the paint line on the nose of the F86D IS CORRECT! The white band sits on the radome itself, which means that I don’t have to mess about stripping paint off the nose and re-aligning the bands.

The plan now is to assess whether the red and yellow on the nose needs to be re-painted anyway, and the colours painted onto the rocket pack once it has been treated and primed.

NEWS JUST IN: Sunderland Timber Supplies have donated a huge quantity of timber including a couple of HUNDRED railway sleepers. I’ll post more when we have taken delivery (they are delivering it too – THANKS GUYS!) and we have worked out exactly what we are going to do with them all. One suggestion is to lay a path edged with sleepers all the way to the Vulcan. Another is to use some in making a trench system for the re-enactors in the embankment along one side of the site using sleepers as safe, solid edges for the trenches. Failing that, we will be operating the 10.30 rail service to usworth……..:D Thanks to Paul (member for 2 weeks!) for setting that up!

We now have the paint for the Canberra! – 100 litres of paint! THANK YOU WILLIAMS. The same company have supplied rollers, brushes, sand paper, etc. Big thanks!

Paint for the Vulcan – the begging letter has reached the Managing Director of the company concerned, and will be delt with VERY soon. I will donate a huge tract of forum space to thanking all concened when the deal comes off either way. The forumite – who works in another department of that company, will hopefully read this (I know he’s keeping an eye on this thread), – has done amazing work and put in alot of time just because he wants to help, and believe me – all the credit for this deal is his. I don’t want to name him yet, unless he adds his own post after this one. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE and you should be proud of what you have done so far!

There are other developments going on behind the scenes which will be revealed as and when they occur….;)

Whats the problem with the main gear? Can you post pics? I have a feeling that it might be from Birds???

25 years of salt air mate…. brobably a touch of birds too… The fescalised portion of the main shock is flaking at the base (where it joins to the bogie), and the top of the leg is the same. Simple cure – remove powder, find good metal, treat, prime and paint.