The Vulcan

[Bill Bowley]

Didier,

Bit of a misunderstanding there, I had a 'quote' in my message that was from from Dick, who asked the question re Concorde, for some reason it did not come up in the 'yellow patch' they usually do!

Thanks anyway, I'm sure Dick will enjoy your response!

Regards

[Twang46]

Hi Bill

Just caught up with this thread

Many thanks for the links, I've passed them on to Ben

His model is now confirmed at 1-3 scale, complete scale model on perspex stands (the "uni" has given him a whole room for his display)

Cheers

Dick

[Bill Bowley]

Dick,

I wish him all the best with his project, and who knows, we may even see a pic of the finished article sometime?

Regards

[Twang46]

Hi Bill

I will post some pics of the final display when it goes "live" later in the year. Looks like it's going to be quite spectacular

Cheers

Dick

[Bill Bowley]

Dick,

Looking forward to seeing it!

[Bill Bowley]

Great way to commemorate, would have been nice to have a Vulcan in the mix given that 617 flew them for so long. Maybe the Historic Flight financiers need to start reaching for their pockets before its too late.

[Detailed Infinity]

She's operating out of RHADS for shows this summer and she's here for good-knew she was RHADS bound 2 years ago but as DMBC's auditor for RHADS' flight operations and as a member of the noise sub committee I couldn't say during your earlier speculations.

Page down the list for my membership and credentials

http://www.rhacc.org.uk/members.php


Brian

[Paul Creasey]

"RHADS"?..............That'll be "Finningley" then, eh Brian!!
If you thought there'd been speculation here, you should have seen the Vulcan Club's Forum over the past couple of years!!
I'd picked up a strong rumour a long time ago - from a usually reliable "inside" source, and in my heart have long believed that Finningley would be '558's eventual home (although-being a Lincoln lad, have to say that WADDO would have been better!).
It would have been nice to be "in the know", but in "Planet '558" it ALWAYS seems to be the case that those who actually shell-out their readies to support the Delta Lady are the LAST to get to know anything!!

Regards
Paul

[Detailed Infinity]

Yes Paul I did read the thread but couldn't say anything. Now she's here that's in the public domain. She was flown here by the pilot who took her down to bomb Port Stanley in '82.

Had an Antonov 225 at RHADS last year taking oil refinery gear to the middle east. That aircraft belongs to a heavy lift company Volga=-Dneiper. Much to the anoyance of Leed/Bradford Airport we have a 2 mile runway and flat countryside.

Ant225 example

Brian

[Derek Mowbray]

I was stationed in Cyprus with the Army in 1969 at the RAF base at Akrotiri, they kindly showed us around to look at The Vulcan bombers there which were part of our nuclear deterent then. Later I saw the whole squadron take off, an impressive sight which never can be repeated. Regarding Leeds Bradford Airport it is too small to compete with larger airfields ,it is frequently fog bound ,the runway was extended a few years ago going over the main road,even so an aircraft overshot the runway once,but still Concord still managed to land