And who will pay the insurance?

Another vote here for the B-17, based purely on an opinion on the tonnage the thing could (or in this case, couldn’t) carry.

‘We can fly a Flying Fortress up to thirty thousand feet
We can fly a Flying Fortress up to thirty thousand feet
We can fly a Flying Fortress up to thirty thousand feet
But we only carry a teeny-weeny bomb!
Glory, glory shall we drop it?
Glory, glory shall we drop it?
Glory, glory shall we drop it?
Shall we drop our teeny-weeny bomb’

(As sung throughout my childhood by my grandad, formerly ground crew of 149 Squadron)

Agreed. Whereas it’s all nice and friendly on the surface now, there are a lot of deep and not always all that hidden resentments out there, and dropping The Bomber down into Berlin might not be the brightest of moves!

Lovely pictures! Thank heavens I have broadband now!

LOL @ you lot! 😀

Although it may sound good when presented to the Lottry people, I think this notion of restoring the Vulcan to flight for ‘educational’ purposes is a load of old rubbish. Yes, of course it has an important history etc, but let’s be totally honest here, we all just want it back up in the air for the sheer sight and sound of the thing, don’t we? Likewise, Little Johhny will go ‘Ooooh’ and possibly dampen his shorts at the magnificent sight, but he’s not going to give two hoots about any ‘educational value’!