Vulcan to the sky

[king kong]

Thanks to so much response to the request for pledges and donations to fund ‘roll out' the crisis may well be overcome. Please continue to support and encourage all those who may be able to help to do so. With just a week to go your continued support is vital.


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XH558 is now standing on her undercarriage. See the Vulcam for photos.


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It is with great regret that the Trustees of Vulcan to the Sky have been obliged to issue letters of termination of contract to the workforce at Bruntingthorpe and Wimborne.

Despite unremitting and continuing efforts to find a major benefactor or sponsor for the project, none has yet been identified. Escalating costs mean that a million pounds are still needed before the end of August if the aircraft is to be returned to flight next year.

Everything is still being done to find such a company or person but time is getting very short. To be unable to complete the project after so much has been given and so much achieved is little short of a tragedy; but, as has been said before, the combination of time lag, engineering cost uplift and no sponsor has so far rendered the task insurmountable.

£1M needs to be found NOW if we're to meet the target of flying for the Falklands Commemoration and the 2007 Air Display season.

[bazza]

Update:

https://www.vulcan558club.com/
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[king kong]

Britain's legendary Vulcan bomber is set to take to the skies again.

Organisers of a project to restore the Cold War plane are celebrating after securing enough funding to complete the work.

Enthusiasts working on the Avro Vulcan XH558 in Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, have spent eight years restoring the bomber and had planned test flights this summer.

But spiralling costs and the lack of a major sponsor earlier this month threatened to halt plans to rebuild the aircraft - which was retired by the RAF in 1984.

A spokesperson for the Vulcan To The Sky Trust said most of the money had been secured through thousands of individual pledges, ranging from £10 to £100, as well as a £500,000 anonymous donation.

The campaign even received royal approval, with the Prince of Wales conveying his good wishes for the continuing project.

Vulcan 'V'-bombers were long-range planes designed and built during the Cold War to carry the nuclear deterrent of the 50s and 60s.

XH558 is thought to be the only Vulcan in the world which could fly again.

It is hoped the plane will tour the country's flying shows for up to 15 years before being finally retired to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford.

[king kong]

XH558 is yours!

The Nation has now acquired an awesome Heritage Asset, thanks to the generosity of the thousands of supporters of the campaign and the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has enabled Vulcan to the Sky Trust to purchase and begin restoration of this last iconic representative of the Cold War period.

Avro Vulcan XH558, now to be restored, belongs to the Nation – to you. To all and everyone who has ever bought a Lottery ticket and most particularly to all those who have donated to become Associates, Friends and Club members of Vulcan to the Sky, Congratulations and thank you. This is no mean achievement and many congratulations are in order. The way forward remains tortuous as has been the process of raising the funds, winning the HLF grant and continuing to raise the partnership funding and sponsorship to get XH558 airborne.

This is, however, a historic moment and the entire Nation, whether supporters, or not, cannot but applaud the courage and dedication of those thousands whose lives were inextricably bound up in the V-Force and the Cold War, whose childhoods were not only influenced but changed by the constant sound and sight of a deterrent force preparing itself to defend not just a nation but a western peace. There are those, too, who having once seen the mighty Vulcan in flight have never forgotten. This project will make a difference, not only will an awesome icon return to its rightful place in the sky but it will unleash a wealth of information and interpretative material to a generation that knows little of a ‘Cold War’ that kept the peace following the major conflicts. The Cold War was the single greatest initiative that never became ‘Hot’ but did not fail. XH558 and the Vulcan to the Sky Trust will bring alive the strategy and success of the time, and bring relevance and poignancy to those years that are so much a part of our history.

[owdamer]

I looked at the list of donations made by the public to keep the vulcan project going. lots of small businesses. One firm was missing tho. Bae systems and they made the bloody things. shocking.

[king kong]

[Mister James]

The chap that coughed up 500k is Sir Jack Hayward, the owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers football club.

Fair play to him.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/01/nvulcan01.xml
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[killa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annkM6z1-FE

Thought i'd post this here, just found it...
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[syl]

Well, it appears to be flying again.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7345852.stm

https://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44565000/jpg/_44565251_vulcan226.jpg
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[Walloper]

I was in Prestwick West Coast of Scotland when trials were done on Concord before going into service.
It seemed like we stood all afternoon watching a Vulcan and The Concord flying circuits of the BEA airstrip there.
One must never forget events such as these.

Those fucking arseholes (I Hand Picked those words BTW) BAA had Concord on Runway 1 at Heathrow and it could be seen by all as you were taking off.
It's been 'shoved' away to the back somewhere now and I haven't seen it for about a year or two.
Go to Paris Charles De Gaul. They have the Air France Concord on a display as though in a splendid mid-bank. RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.....
The British are Shite at Showing off now a days.

***Rant Mode Suspended***
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