You have GOT to be kidding???

From the VTST Excuses Dept:

Robert Pleming, VTST Chief Executive: “On behalf of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, I would like to apologise unreservedly for the huge disappointment felt by very many people, some of whom had traveled great distances, at the absence of the Vulcan from the flying display. The events leading to the cancellation of the Vulcan’s displays are deeply regrettable, and we will do everything we can to prevent this happening again at Waddington.”

Ok, so they will do everything possible to prevent this happening again “at Waddington”…… but you can apparently expect several more cluster****s to coincide with the rest of the displays scheduled for this season?

Basically Plemming is saying they should have managed to remove his head from his **** by this time next year?

no-one ever sees the Vulcan fly again. Regards,

kev35

& that differs from this weekend how exactly? 😉

So if the CAA, VTST & BAES are not at fault, then just who the hell is? Keebler Elves maybe?

Hmmm.. do you know something we don’t ZRX.? If not i’m sure we will all know the truth when Elly and co get to the bottom of it.

I’ve come across that problem twice before & I could see how someone could miss one of those plastic plugs/caps.

That’s assuming they didn’t get a duff engine from the O/H shop. I’m not sure how much a fresh 1820 goes for these days, but the 2 1340’s I’ve changed in the past 2 months were around $35K (exchange, depending on damage to core etc) or about $43K outright buy with no exchange. The cause of those 2 swaps were one grenaded the blower section (but the crank was unharmed) & the other was just flat knackered @2300 hours.
The SallyB site says they received 360K from the sale of the land donation last year so they should be able to buy an engine from a reputable O/H shop.
The 2 1340’s I just hung were both Covingtons. I’ve been hearing good things recently about Anderson motors & bad things about Precision. Another name in the ring now is Nixon as he bought out Aircraft Cylinder in Sunland & moved the entire operation up to Tehachapi, so now we have Vintage Radials next to Vintage V12’s 🙂

I have every respect for the B17 Team and their engineers, its bad luck nothing more,

I have a feeling that Sally B isn’t operated on good/bad luck. I know none of the aircraft I work on operate on that principle… & as I said before 3 engines is WAY beyond bad luck.

My money is on a wayward protective cap left in an oil line or fitting….

Pretty sure I saw some fresh 1820’s sat at Sun Air last month.