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I must say that my original scepticism that this was a "do-able" project was based on my memory of how hard it was to keep the Vulcan fleet in the air with full support from all the OEMs and a fairly huge workforce. In forty years its still the most unreliable and labour intensive aircraft I've ever encountered bar none - even the Shack. I think its amazing that the restoration has got as far as it has. The boundless optimism that leads the team to miss deadlines is in fact the same optimism that keeps the project going.
Getting 558 airborne is of course only the beginning; keeping it airborne is likely to be even more expensive and time consuming. Even though I don't share the team's boundless enthusiasm, I do hope they succeed.
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