Viscount at Aeropart

Any idea of the paint scheme planned for the Viscount cockpit?

How will XX885 be capable of getting a permit to fly when the CAA were not willing to get XW986 one?

Any news on FAST getting XX894 to static run yet? Must be quite a few runners and potential runners out there..at YAM, Gatwick, Bruntingthorpe etc?

Is XX897 capable of static runs?

Thanks for the info Vulcan,

Was the public invited to bid on the remaining airframes? or was that limited to Museums, organizations? and was the price determined by the group involved.. i.e. a museum might acquire an airframe for a 1$? while other private individuals might be charged 5K?

Last to retire Vulcans

With XH558 being the last flyer and XL426 the next to last..which of the other survivors were the last flown Vulcans in the UK..whether it be to a museum or ?

Under a Avro Lincoln Perhaps?

What ever happened to all those Cockpit section used on the
Sci Fi film “Wing Commander”? I understand that quite a number of Lightning Cockpit sections were used to create fighter ships and that most were purchased from marine salvage.

I would hope that other Vulcans currently preserved/stored outdoors don’t end up in this similar condition.

I am guessing that quite a number of Vulcan were made available to different museums or organizations in the early 80’s, when the RAF decided to retire them. And except for a lucky few, most are kept outdoors. Even two of the taxiable ones XL426 and XM655 are kept in very fine operational conditional with no permanent hangar being available. Some other Vulcans some of
their electrical systems still alive while others have been sealed up for good. And others looks much like the Blackpool Vulcan.!

Of the remaining static Vulcans stored outdoors which seems at present to have the most secure future if kept outdoors?

Newark’s Air Museum always looks good.

And one more quick question to ex RAF types..how often did the RAF paint the Vulcan while in service?