Lets hope the IWM do something soon before she is deemed structurally un-safe. Look what happened to the Vulcan B1 at Cosford. It is after all the only Mk1 Victor on the planet.

[QUOTE=richw_82;2244597]She will, though only in the same place as we put WR963 for work, which is the west end of Hangar 7.

A Shackleton is a tight squeeze due to the 120ft wingspan the Vulcan would have an extra 9 ft of clearance. As for height of the fin being a problem, the DC6 is taller at 28ft 5in against the Vulcan’s 27ft 1in, and its why there’s a special roller shutter door above the normal door height. We never have to worry about it as WR963 is a relatively short 17ft 6in against her long legged younger sister.
I think its due to that when a Vulcan is up on jacks and the way the main gear pivots forward and down when it retracts that the height of the hanger was going to be the problem. A Vulcan on sticks is quite away off the deck about 3 feet if I remember.

My experience with HLF

It would be no good having 558 at Coventry she won’t fit into any of the hangers there, the Shack is a tight squeeze but a Vulcans fin won’t go in.

I’ve been in aircraft preservation for 20 years and have worked on Vulcan, Hunter, Buccaneer, and Nimrod and the one thing that stood out to me over the years is that people talk about preservation but don’t actually get involved and do any. To preserve any airframe takes money that’s for sure but its man hours that are required, if anybody see’s an airframe at the local museum that’s looking a little tired why don’t you join the volunteers and get stuck in. Many museums are short staffed as we all know and yes there are the H&S regulations to take into account but with a bit of training almost anybody could lend a hand looking after an airframe. You don’t have to be skilled to unblock a water drain or remove panels to let area’s breath and dry out on any airframe in my book.

Totally agree with above once 558 is grounded public interest will dwindle very quickly and if any Vulcan deserves saving its got to be 607.