I definatley don’t want her in America, she needs to be in her own country. Very sad if she goes abroad, all that money given by the BRITISH people would be wasted. TVOC refer to her being the peoples plane, yet they are considering Selling it to America.

…:diablo:

“We keep an ongoing dialogue with the Lottery fund – I spoke to them on the phone a couple of weeks ago; we last had a formal meeting in November. With the completion of the restoration, that was the end of their formal involvement in the project. Our contract with the Lottery actually lasts for 80 years! We have asked them on several occasions as to whether or not there is more funding available – the answer is a polite, but firm “no”.

The Avro Vulcan is an iconic machine, but this example, XH558, is an almost mythical creature with a loyal and devoted following. If the project at Bruntingthorpe were to fold, the aircraft’s fate is by no means certain.

“If we are forced into administration, the administrator, almost certainly, would be forced to sell the aircraft. Under those circumstances which we are fighting very, very hard to avoid, my only hope would be that it would go to someone who wanted to keep it flying in the UK. My suspicion, and it’s a suspicion borne out by information we have received is that it would go probably to an American buyer, because they have got the pockets and they love this sort of thing.”

two things, ive NEVER heard of an 80 year contract….

and the second highlighted part, isnt this total bu1lsh1t?

My winner in this game was the Ryanair 737-200 which still used Newcastle until recently (5 years or so) – I’m sure it was just laying a smoke screen to avoid being seen.

:D:D:D love it 😀

It’s B.1 XA889 (as it says on clip), you can see the slightly kinked wing. It was Olympus powered, the two Protos being Avon powered, one later receiving Sapphires.

As for smokiest that could be hard to judge, engine condition can have a part to play. I’ve seen a few very smokey VC-10 departures from here lately!

had to watch it without sound on lol 🙂

sorry aboot that, i have failed you all 😮

if that was the prototype VX770, would that have been when it had avons or sapphires? i do recall reading somewhere it first flew with avons, then with AS sapphires dunno, i know the buff is a rather smokey aircraft, as was the toom

really couldnt say, i think early large jets you will find are all fairly smokey

once again the people on here cease to amaze me 🙂 i do hope that this site doesnt close 🙂 is there anything i could do to help?

Ben

on the link posted, near the bottom

Flying a B17 that low… 😮 cant say i would have got in an aircraft with him.

The Trust has just enough money to pay the wages bill at the end of the month. As the result, last Monday, VTST had to put all of its employees on one month’s notice.

no offence, but if they all love the aircraft so much why dont they stop their wages for a month? surely that would cover the nessecary capital for the million?

set an example perhaps?

“we’re willing to do without to keep her in the air”

something like that…

just my ten pence

Ben