I see from the latest post on the Vulcan FB page that they now claim to have enough money to see them all the way through the season & next Winters maintenance… so I assume this will mean no begging letters until they are ready for the first flight of 2013?

That’s going to end in tears & red stains on the shrubbery..

Naaw, only if new front t(i)yres were fit!

Lol

Michael

Drop a Cummins/Allison powertrain in it 🙂

Those who want to see these aircraft flying need to accept reality and, frankly, get over it. If you want “no new content” (an utterly impossible and ridiculous concept) then you will not see these aircraft fly! Period. They will be static museum exhibits only.

Additionally, if I own and fund the re-construction to flight of an historic airframe and invest my own time and very considerable sums of money into that process then I probably don’t appreciate the emergence of anoraks telling me that it isn’t “allowable”. Allowable by whom, for God’s sake?! I think some people need to take a healthy dose of realism medicine.

That.

How do you get a finish like that? it look like new.

Plastic bead blasted the old paint off, hit it with DA sander with #220 grit paper (at least I think it was #220), then buzzed it with 3M scotchbrite Roloc discs on a die grinder, wiped it down with lacquer thinner & sprayed it with Rustoleum Hammertone paint from rattlecans.

Somewhat, I’ve even worked in air-conditioned booths to get the temps down to the 80’s. I like spraying during the winter when it’s not 130deg in the normal booths…

I’m guessing that’s the one that Tallichet *hopped* over the train & stuffed the gear through the wings?

When TFC acquired ex Peruvian Air Force P-47D N47DD in 1986, it had been rebuilt after an accident 9-2-80. The damaged fuselage was taken over by IWM and rebuilt as ‘226413’ for inclusion in the American Air Museum. First two pictures by Tony Clarke show part of the remains 12-5-88 and on rebuild 11-93. Last picture taken AAM 3-4-11: