Disregarding what I think of the management of 558, I do support the aircraft, it’s air and ground crews.
What’s more, so does The Bluebird Project- here’s a press release for you (also posting in Bluebird thread, to ensure coverage on both topics)
4th February 2009
As you know we’re asking the Lake District National Park for
permission to operate Bluebird K7 above the 10mph speed limit during
her proving trials. We’d like to see this event take place next year
and in a perfect world we’d prefer to do it on Coniston Water,
Bluebird’s spiritual home.
But to achieve this we need a modification to the local bylaw as the
current law precludes us doing what we need to do. There’s an
exception if you’re going for a record but we’re not. Running
during Record’s Week has been suggested too as this takes place
annually on Coniston and maybe the rules could be relaxed but it’s a
big risk. The chances of getting a good enough forecast in November
for us to even mobilise is slim indeed and it wouldn’t be fair on
the records people either to have us keep interrupting an event
they’d planned all year. We’d likely have to leave K7 in her
workshop until spring and have a go somewhere else.
We want to run this event sensitively and professionally with ever an
eye to the environment and amenity of the local folks but we’d like
to make it exciting and informative too so here’s what we need.
Follow the link below and complete the form. We’d like to run
sometime when the weather is likely to be kind and spend perhaps a
week gradually working K7 back to fighting trim before she goes on
display. And as she’s such a powerful inspirational and educational
tool we’d also like to keep open the option to run her again
sometime in the future. Thanks in advance.
http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/bluebirdconsultation
Now here’s the other thing you need to do. Go to the following
website – http://www.vulcantothesky.org/default.asp
– where you’ll find the team who worked so hard to return Avro
Vulcan XH558 to full flying condition. The aircraft is ready to go.
She’s fighting fit with a passionate crew just waiting to show her
off but she’s also an expensive beast and unless they have our
support – and let’s face it, the powers that be are too
short-sighted to nurture this national asset – she’ll end up
grounded once more.
What a tragedy that would be! I want to take my kids to see a flying
Vulcan rather then one of those sad and slowly corroding examples to
seen outside of aircraft museums. So go and pledge them a fiver or a
tenner and let’s keep this icon in the air for future generations…
Bill Smith.
(Bluebird Project Director)
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