eBay item for Tumble

[MA_Moby]

ok Tumble - crack open the piggy bank

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...530699633&rd=1

[TiG]

omg does it fly?? hehe.

can i remove it by taking off?

Nice find Moby

TiG

[muddyfox470]

im guessing it cant even roll (tyres ceased etc)

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

[Stoo]

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

Sunday afternoon project?

[Stoo]

ooooh..

Post to: Will arrange for local pickup only (no postage).

[TiG]

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

TiG

[MA_Moby]

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

[Stoo]

Isn't there still an airworthy one at Mildenhall?

[MA_Moby]

Isn't there still an airworthy one at Mildenhall?

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?

[MA_Moby]

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

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.

[MA_Moby]

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

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.

[yanansi]

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

[[GSV]Trig]

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

[Zak33]

Moby....your DAD co-piloted that?


sheeeet man......lucky sod

[Tumble]

:insane jealousy smiley not yet created:

[MA_Moby]

Moby....your DAD co-piloted that?


sheeeet man......lucky sod

No, the Canberra T-22 that escorted it. One of these ~



They were operated by a company called Airwork that used former RAF aircrew to fly Royal Navy aircraft of the FRADU unit http://www.aero-image.com/fradu.htm. This is a unit which fights what's known in the Navy as the Thursday war - the aircraft would do mock low level attacks on ships and so on. The T-22 was equipped with a Blue Parrot radar (used by the Buccaneer) and could duplicate the radar image of Soviet attack aircraft (or something like that). Today FRADU operate Hawk jets out of Culdrose, but in the 70's and 80's it was Hunters and Canberras all the way.