let’s cheer ourselves up with a flying one! 🙂

It’ll be interesting to see what scheme XH558 wears as/when she returns to the air. Will people moan if she flies covered in logos?

some people will moan on here whatever it looks like!

😉

Ahhh good old TB752

as a kid – the museum people let me dust it!!!

whilst on that subject, does anyone know how close it’s restoration was to ‘airworthy’ status. It was clearly very thoroughly done, but when I was there as a kid, the woman behind the counter told me “oh yes it’s basically flyable, but they took the crankshaft out, so the BBMF couldn’t come round and take it away”

obviously she was talking through her hat, but I’ve always been curious how ‘flyable’ or otherwise it was when freshly done.

Don’t know anything about webmasters, biactol or bananas, but, I really hope the Vulcan doesn’t fly. Gasps of shock, horror and perhaps the odd bit of personal abuse is probably already winging my way. So, let me explain….

The airshow and historic aviation movement loses aircraft, and sometimes, tragically, the crew is lost too. I don’t know any other way to put this but, if the Vulcan should fly and for whatever reason crash, the results of this would be far more devastating than that of a smaller aircraft. not only due to the size of the aircraft but the resultant media outcry. We already have the outlandish reporting from the likes of Sky News (Firefly) but imagine the outcry should an aircraft of that size and complexity come down. Airshows and historic aviation would come under such intense scrutiny I doubt they would survive. Imagine the headlines, they would be terrible.

I believe the Vulcan should remain ground running but never, ever be allowed to take to the skies again. I know I am fortunate to have seen Vulcans flying operationally but if the Vulcan flies, sadly, I really fear the worst. I am not casting aspersions on anyone running VTS or those who would maintain and fly the aircraft. It’s simply this, accidents happen.

Regards,

kev35

That’s a bit like saying ‘best not leave the house – you never know, you could get run over by a bus’

Re: “First Light”

Originally posted by patb
Following the recomendations in previous posts, I am half way though reading First Light and it is a remarkably good read. Thank you for pointing this out.

Are there any books that tell a similar story from the German point of view? Grateful for any suggested tiltles

two good german books: Spitfire on my tail by Ulrich Steinhilper and of course, The first and the last by Adolf Galland. 🙂