These people are desperate to continue their project.

http://www.vulcan558club.com/

If you email a pledge you will only have to honour it if they raise the full amount.

I can remember a Vulcan at an air show in the 70s. It touched down on the runway and then blasted upwards at an angle of 45 degrees when the pilot opened the throttles. Awesome.

 

VIAL (Vulcan in a lake)

Didn't we debate this just a week or so ago?

 

Would love to see it fly again. But they need a lot of money in the next 4 days. I've pledged some. But I think they need Branson to pay the rest in exchange for a Virgin logo on the tail

 

I know it's not a Scoob.

However, it's one hell of a bit of kit. The Olympus engines in the Vulcan were used on Concorde ( which is another bit of British superb engineering to no longer exist).

I was privelleged to be close to them when I was in the RAF and, the Argentinians were privelleged to be bombed by them, by a Vulcan that flew thousands of miles via in flight refuelling, to do so.

Good luck to the British Vulcan lot for trying to keep this great bit of British Aviation History alive.

Alan MaC

 

Saw 558 at Fairford many moons ago. They're an awesome bit of kit and seeing one go vertical is fairly spectacular, not to mention deafening! Was within a few metres of one when it landed (on the second attempt) some years ago at a small airfield in Warwickshire, and I'll take that experience to my grave. They're incredible, but don't take too kindly to being left out in the snow... without weights on the front they tip!

Anyway, I'm going to pledge a few quid and hope others do too! If you want to get an idea about the Vulcan, they have one on static display you can stand under at the RAF museum in Hendon. Go see, it's free entry and a great day out for the family.

Steve

 

It was the longest bombing sortie in history, at exactly 16 hours, until a B52 mission exceeded this in the 1991 Gulf war.

The F117A Nighthawk missions flown from from Holloman, NM, in the second Gulf war probably exceeded this latter record.

 

btt

Got to be worth the price of one tank of V-Power to see this flying again.

Think your Scoobs got a bit of grunt? Can it beat 80,000 lbf thrust?

 

Here it is

http://www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=680&nr=1