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Just a shame he became a Wing Commander and started flying a desk, until he retired some years ago.
My uncle used to pilot Vulcans
Just a shame he became a Wing Commander and started flying a desk, until he retired some years ago.
I've just been informed that I CANNOT bid £10000 on thisI'm all upset now....
Originally Posted by The Quentos
Would the Manx ferries have let you on with it?I've just been informed that I CANNOT bid £10000 on this
'Make mine a Spitfire, Landlord!'
There are several around including one just down the road from me at an airfield just outside Stratford upon Avon. None are currently flyable XH558 is the closest to being flyable with the Heritage Lottery trust recently donating just over £2m to the fund to get it flying http://www.tvoc.co.uk/index2.htm
Beat CNN by two days
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne...ber/index.html
jesus! The bidding is up to £5.5 million !!!!!! Are they NUTS!!!! They can't possibly be genuine bidders.....
'Make mine a Spitfire, Landlord!'
OMG - it's jumped up by two million pounds in the last 30 minutes!!!!!!!!!
Jesus - with that kind of money (£7.5 million) you could buy a vulcan and restore it and keep it flying. But to consider dishing that out on a rusting hulk that isn't really a good example of the plane anyway (there are much nicer hulks out there) is pure insanity (unless this one happens to contain a secret cache of raw uncut diamonds). eBay bidders - you've got to love 'em.
'Make mine a Spitfire, Landlord!'
another ebay bid ruined
Yup, aint the t'internet a great thing...
I've still got all my spanners from my aero engineering days... though best not mention what happend to the 737 I last attached a set of wings too.....well, the engines are complete, but if it all functions is another matter..
Sunday afternoon project?
Moby, the RAF still fly Canberra's don't they?
Saw a doco on Disco Wings the other night. They've been upgraded with ultra cool radar packages that make them better than AWACS for close support battlefield info.
Its pretty amazing, the pilot sits up in his cokcpit all cosy and snug, the technician gets shut into the NOSE of the plane with two tiny windows either side (they cal them day/night indicators, cos that's a;ll you can see out of them) and then they go barrelling off to do everything from real time battle info collection and relay to recon missions...
The US have gone on record as prefering the quality of info gathered by a Canberra over the stuff gathered by the U2 and SR-71.
The doco said the flying planes, which have been kept servicable by cannibalising parts from stored planes, will be phased out in the next couple of years, and no-onoe seems too sure of what they're going to do to replace it.
I was just gob smacked that they still used them meself.
ps, the guy selling the vulcan has killed off all those silly bids... its back to £10,200 now...
They still fly photo recon, I think one crashed a couple of months ago. My god father was a navigator on Canberras before moving onto ATC at Heathrow and West Drayton
Yes, they still fly out of RAF Marham. I sometimes see them going over - a lovely sight. I tear up when I see them. They have PR9s and T4s.
I thnk India and Argentina might still have a few as well - B varients.
I remember crawling about them when I was a kid. Then they seemed just ENORMOUS, though I guess the reality was that it was a pretty tight squeeze for all concerned.
It's testimony to the quality of the airframe and design that it's still going strong after 50 years. It can fly high and fast, so makes for a great battlefield recon platform. And although the airframe is old the PR9s are, I believe, packed full of the latest gadgetry.
I'm not sure how much longer they'll be in service though. I suspect they will fall foul of cutbacks and the current vogue for UAV technology sooner or later.
'Make mine a Spitfire, Landlord!'
theres now 6, though the winning bidder has a zero rating......
mind you, so has the seller...
psssst - anyone wanna buy a second hand Vulcan?
It went for over £15K. There's a lot of rust to the £ in that transaction.
'Make mine a Spitfire, Landlord!'
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