Very good Vulcan site here - don't know how current it is.

http://www.spxtraining.com/niactest/

Wow a 'lost' Vulcan stranded in ths Californian sunshine and nobody knows what to do with it.... ( crate it up and send it home? - It'll need a big crate...)

Here's a sister site where the current guardian of 605 is seeking information on certain kit(s). His e-mail address is there. Why not put any advice on here and then tell him of this site. (Hard to believe - that awful RadAlt was fitted as late as '81. Is that right? Proper RadAlts, same as the Trident, were being fitted 15 years earlier.)

http://www.vulcanxm605.20m.com/interior.htm

Quote:

XM605 is on loan from the British Government to the USAF, who have, in turn, loaned it to the Castle Museum.

So, she could be brought back to the UK, or taken to Canada. However, I suspect that the costs would be horrendous for a) transporting and b) restoring her. Twenty-seven years sitting without any maintenance must have taken its toll on her. We only have to look at the problems that XH558 has gone through, and she was well maintained.

Shame really, would be nice to see another one fly.

I don't think so. The Rad Alt 6 was already fitted when I was posted to Vulcans in '79, and looked like it was well past its sell by date even then.

Combusters were still being used on the Victors right until their scrapping. The K2 only had them on engines 3 and 4, whereas the B2s had them on all four. We regularly practiced combust starts and used them in anger occaisionally. The main benefit was if you didn't have ground power. You could start an engine combusting and crossbleed the rest. I did that in anger at Palermo in such a situation. A very impressive jet of flame and smoke shot out from below the engine and got the attention of ATC who dispatched the fire crews. The crew chief only just managed to stop them filling the engines with foam!