Vulcan XH558

[Crasher]

The Vulcan project is in dire need of funds, please go onto their web site and donate some money to help keep this important part of British history flying.

http://www.vulcantothesky.org

[Sam]

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[Housemaster300]

I live in Lincoln and constantly get hounded by locals and the Lincolnshire Echo for donations for this plane.They spent a million or so in donations last year ready for the waddington air show(which tends to block the road to my house for 2 days!)Then when people finally got there it was grounded because it didnt get its MOT in time.
It's a shame but i think this time it wont make it.
Awesome bit of kit though.

[Crasher]

It has to make it, it cannot be allowed to fail-too much has gone into making her airworthy to let it go now. If it fails it just sums up what a weak willed useless nation we are!

[Issac Hunt]

They have had a good deal of public donations but I have seen too many articles about financial and project mis-management to put in any of my hard earned cash.

Its a pity G. Brown wont stump up some money! It'll be a real shame if she is grounded.

XH should have been taken by the BBMF when she left active service.

[Housemaster300]

Unfortunatly the likelyhood is,that it will be bought by a foreigner and shipped abroad.thats what the echo was saying a couple of weeks ago.

[Eshrules]

I believe this is the last year it'll be flying though? Owing partially to funds but also the sad reality if having no further spare engines after last year's failure?

Where's it likely to end up, mothballed in a museum?

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[Crasher]

There was more to it than that, an Olympus or two could easily be procured 0 hours but some of the leading edge skins need replacing and as they were hand made by British craftsmen, finding a couple of bearded chaps in blue coats to bend and rivet some Duralumin is proving to be too costly. I had a letter from the head of the project when I emailed him to express my disappointment at letting a little bit of tin bending getting in the way of some more flying but the incumbent management seem to have lost most of that original energy that the project exhibited and have instead fallen into the typical "bothered?" mentality that is paralysing this country, probably too politically incorrect to keep a Cold War icon in view and instead the effort will be put into allowing two men being able to sanction their perverse acts in the name of God's holly institution of marriage, or perhaps arrest some more fathers needing triple heart bypass operations for sending their sons a happy birthday greeting-seriously, this ******* country is losing its grip! I thought that when Tony Cameron [sic] came to power we would see the light once again, now I look to a bombastic shock of blond hair for hope and he had better nit [sic] disappoint or UKIP here I come!

[towcestervag]

i can see its a sore point then mate!
there must be someone out there with the relevent skills to do the job and do it at the correct price?
what about nicking the parts off of one of the others that are at airfields doing nothing like the one at norwich airport?

[Crasher]

They were all hand made, it would be like trying to take the kitchen units out of the kitchen a custom kitchen fitter built three years ago and trying to make them fit the one he is doing tomorrow, it ain't going to fit.