eBay item for Tumble

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omg does it fly?? hehe.

can i remove it by taking off? :D

Nice find Moby :)

TiG

im guessing it cant even roll (tyres ceased etc)

but wud b a gud tlking point in the pub!!!

well, the engines are complete, but if it all functions is another matter..

Sunday afternoon project? ;) :D

ooooh..

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:lol:

anyone got space to store a vulcan? infact how the hell do you move it? :)

TiG

This plane - I think - has a bit of a history.

If it is the same one, and I think it must be, it flew into Blackpool in 1983 escorted on its final journey by a Royal Navy Canberra T-22 of FRADU navigated my none other than my old man.

It then sat at the airport looking big and pretty, well big anyway, for the next 20 years.

It looks to be in a bit of a sad state to me, probably (don't kill me) only worth it's weight in scrap unless somebody with a big fat wallet can rescue it. These things cost a fortune to get airworthy again, even the finest examples are struggling to keep in an airworthy state (in fact I belive there are none fully airworthy at the moment - though I think one or two are in a fast taxi condition, with good engines etc - at Bruntingthorpe?).

There's one at Norwich, a bit like this Blackpool one

Isn't there still an airworthy one at Mildenhall?

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Originally Posted by Stoo

Isn't there still an airworthy one at Mildenhall?

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I don't think so. Though the USAF did operate a number of borrowed Vulcans for research and avaluation purposes, or for a laugh, or some other reason. Here is one in sunny california
http://www.spxtraining.com/niactest/

All the survivors are listed here.
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...survivors.html

The Bruntingthrpe one (558) is the old display Vulcun that the RAF kept going into the 1990's. Maybe you saw it at a Mildenhall display or visit?

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Originally Posted by PrivatePyle

there is one at coventry airport aswell, in quite a good state

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From the Thunder and Lightenings website:

...She's due another cleaning, the airbrakes work, the APU is run often and three out of the four engines are apparently in working order - unfortunately, they are unlikely to be run again as she's now pointed towards some houses, and jet engines (at an airport mind you) are a noise nuisance...

I guess so long as these things can be powered up and given an engine run on the odd occasion there's hope they can be restored to airworthiness.

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Originally Posted by PrivatePyle

well a fury they found in basra recently still had a free rotating prop even though its not been run in years, theres hope for all old planes.

more vulcans should be airworthy, they used to fly to the falklands and bomb port stanleys air port, thats a long way

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a Fury in Basra? wow - talk about the spoils of war. i imagine the dry and relatively moisture conditions will have helped it no end so long as it was safe from dust sand and so on

yup - it's a long old way from Ascension Island to The Falklands. Even the tankers (converted Victors) were running on empty. I seem to remember reading that they had to land one after the other follwing one raid (Black Buck One?), before the runway had cleared, because there was no fuel to go around.

OMG there is a bid.......

There was one at EMA for a while, dunno if its still there or not...