Zeon

Not being funny, I'm a big fan of the Vulcan.

But don't you think in the current economic climate that No. 10 would really want to splash cash out on this project? I think the Discovery Channel should fund it and make a big long documentary out of it.

fatherpierre

Waste of money

finchyboy

Perhaps you would like to explain why ?

finchyboy

The thousands of people that have made the Vulcan to the Sky fundraising effort the BIGGEST bar none non humanatarian fund raising this country has ever seen would disagree with you !!!!

fatherpierre

Wasting taxpayers' money to keep a gas-guzzling, pointless thing in the air.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

finchyboy

That sort of attitude is why i had to tell my Son the other day that we used to be able to fly to New York in under 4 hour's !!!

He's entitle to his own opinion though.

fatherpierre

No, I'm just not a plane-spotting geek

I wouldn't want any of the taxes I pay wasted on a piece of junk that serves no purpose.

If people want to keep it flying then let them pay for it privately.

I actually used to work on the Vulcan when I was in the RAF and still saw no reason for it then.

Janspeed

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Back in the "future" days!
We have moved forward into the stone age.

Leslie

That statement proves a lot!

It actually paid a very large part in saving this country from nuclear destruction as I suspect you very well know.

Les

fatherpierre

It only proves that I don't think taxpers' money should be wasted on a now pointless aircraft that only a very few care about.

Leslie

It is in the same league as Spitfires and Lancasters and Hurricanes etc. People love to see them fly and it keeps the memories of what was achieved in their names alive. That alone is sufficient justfication for maintaining them.

Les

Luminous

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They should definitely maintain it. Its a far more worthy cause then many of the other shocking wastes of money this gov comes up with. If you don't maintain these things they are gone forever. Its not like some other pointless monument that can be delayed

Leslie

I imagine you were not a Crew Chief then. If you had gone on a few rangers with a decent crew you might think differently.

Les

fatherpierre

I'd still think it was a waste of money, as I did at the time when it was the last flying one for displays only

cossie-nutter

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I work on Raf Wyton and RAF Brampton and IMHO i think the money could be better spent else where even though its a stunning bit of kit but i think the times come for the country to stop waisting money on stuff thats not really needed IMHO If there was spare cash then i wouldn't see a problem but with the way the recession is going i think it is unfair to use tax payers money!

r32

Lovely to see it but I dont think its in the same league as those planes that helped us beat our foes in a real war. I dont think one ever dropped a bomb in anger did it?

I get quite emotional to see the Battle of Britain flight, but whilst I think the Vulcan is a magnificent aircraft its not really the same is it?

cossie-nutter

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I have flown in the Lancaster from Raf Coningsby many years ago (Basically hitching a ride!) Long story but i can tell you now i had goose pimples all the way and was simply stunning!

Back then there was only 2 still flying and the other was in Canada but think that 1 has no been grounded! "Think"

cossie-nutter

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Very true and i see the sunset dance with the Vulcan fly by a few months ago at Raf Wyton.

^Qwerty^

I'd be quite happy to see the BBMF scrapped.............










and replaced with a

Armed Forces Heritage flight

mrtheedge2u2

As much as I enjoy planes and air shows I have to side with Pierre and cossie-nutter... I simply think money can be better spent else where........

Myles

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When I read the title, I was expecting some kind of Mr Spock connection.

Myles

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I think it would be the final nail in Labours coffin. As if car tax wasn't enough. They will never go for it.

RobinSherwood

I am pretty sure Vulcan's dropped bombs in anger during the Falkland's Conflict?

Myles

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From Wikipedia.

Although the primary weapon for the Vulcan was nuclear, Vulcans could carry up to 21 x 1,000 pounds (454 kg) bombs in a secondary role. The only combat missions involving the Vulcan took place in the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina, when Vulcans, in the Black Buck operations flew the 3,380 nautical miles (6,260 km) from Ascension Island to Stanley.[6][7] There were three missions to bomb the airfield at Stanley; two to attack Argentine radar installations with missiles and two missions were cancelled.

RA Dunk

i just paid £139.95 to renew my bloody TV license, perhaps we could create a petition to the PM saying if he dosent lower it were going to roll up the licenses and ram them up his ar$e next year

Leslie

You don't know too much about the history of the Vulcan by the looks of it.

It was a major part of the Nuclear Deterrent during the Cold War which you may not actually remember. It was ready to deliver a very large "bucket of sunshine" to the Eastern Bloc if there was any attack from them on the West.Initially there were always Vulcans on standby ready to take off in the case of such an attack. You have to realise that the Vulcan was feared by the Soviets right up to the time it was taken out of service. They knew that they could shoot some of them down but not enough to stop gross destruction of their own lands. They were ready to fly at any time of the day or night and in any weather on a low level attack and could also out turn any fighter at high level.

You also obviously don't know that during the Falklands War that the Vulcan flew the longest ever trip in history by a bomber aircraft in order to blast the runway so that the Argentine Air Force was unable to use the airfield for fighters which was of major significance in the winning of that war by the UK.

So just about everything you said was wrong!

Les

Myles

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And the Falklands will soon be the only war in living memory, which probably makes the Vulcan's role even more significant. I have seen it here in work, and it is smaller than I expected. Got some good mobile footage of it doing a practise flight round the area, what a noisy bugger!