…. Midland has an excellent shop and if they still want them when I shuffle off, they can.

:diablo: So does NAM BSG-75 – but I recon you’ve just not forgiven them for turning down that F.14!! 😀 😀

😮 ….. slightly younger, just starting out on the ‘self-employed route’ …. or was it “one that slipped through my fingers”? …. Come to think of it the buyer did have a big smile on his face!!! 😀

😮 This is victimisation you know!! 😀

Dispels the talk that such occurrences were a ‘myth’ and that Vulcan snow clearing teams would never be required on those airframes in preservation.

When XM594 first came to Newark in 1983 they had a ‘temporary snow clearing team’ on standby should the need arise. This team was stood down when NAM had the concrete dug out and the nose wheel of XM594 was tethered into the ground via a large red hook onto the undercarriage.

Have NEAM got enough people available to do what needs to be done to make the airframe safe?

Too far a journey for me but if they need help are there any other forumites within travelling distance that might be able to assist?

Just a quick post to clarify my comments of yesterday about the situation with XM594 at Newark that seems to have caused some ‘off board’ confusion.

Fortunately whilst at Newark XM594 has never performed a similar manoeuvre to NEAM’s Vulcan.

The decision to tether XM594 was made on the assessment of a former Vulcan Crew Chief and whilst I’m no structural engineer I know that his judgement was well respected at NAM, in the RAF and in aviation circles in the East Midlands. In his former role as Restoration Co-ordinator at NAM he also advocated the tyre filling programme for all XM594 ‘high pressure’ tyres. Privately he also correctly predicted most of the major mechanical ‘fixes’ required on a certain flying Vulcan.

I also understand that following a phone call received last night that NAM is currently trying to advise NEAM on ‘descent solutions’ through the offices of its current Restoration Manager, another former Vulcan Crew Chief. Hopefully a safe solution can be devised.

Yes, I was aware of his ‘credentials’ and the book’s ‘context’, but I stand by my earlier comment – “What struck me was how everything seemed to be so fresh in the authors mind!”

Personally I also put a lot of store in Beamont’s comments made in the video that he recorded for Newark shortly before he passed away.