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Discussion in 'Lounge' started by comfysofa, Sep 27, 2020.

  1. The main reason the Vulcan was grounded, cost and as you say the running cost of an old warbird ie Spit, P51 etc is relatively cheap compared to the very technical relatively speaking Vulcan, shame i miss the old bird in flight a vision to behold:upyeah:.
     
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  2. You could move to somewhere ending in 'stan' and save a few quid :thinkingface:
     
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  3. ^^^ you're not wrong. MIG15 or 21 for 20k sir?

    In truth with the Vulcan BAE systems just couldn't be arsed to oversee the maintenance of it and sign it all off. They started giving it all the "oh we don't have half the drawings anymore and the engineers who were on that programme are all retired now". Typical BAE really.

    If they'd have taken it to Russia, I bet there would be a building full of old cold war engineers who could have done the work involved and also probably had the skillbase and willingness to build you a new one for spares as well.
     
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  4. totally agree.

    The Vulcan, the Victor at Bruntingthorpe and the lightning.. they should all be up in the air wowing the crowds.

    The BBMF should grow a new branch the CWHF, the cold war heritage flight.
    @WAYNE .. MAKE IT SO.
     
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  5. A poor reflection of British management unfortunately, I saw a Vulcan at one of the last Leuchars airshows before it was retired, it was awesome :upyeah:
     
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  6. I got this... I've 2 bags of wotsits coming to me...
     
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  7. I thought on of the main reason the Vulcan no longer flies is that there are no pilots left with the relevant tickets?
     
  8. That and it was due a massive overhaul and they didn't have the money
     
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  9. The pilots you could find quite happily, especially as many RAF pilots would happily volunteer for the duty, and still many good pilots that had service in the thing still capable fo flying it.

    The overhaul however was a different matter, with the money being in the pot thanks to donations, but BAE systems just not being arsed anymore.
     
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