Originally Posted by
safetypee
How times have changed -‘appetite for risk’. I remember the day that an ‘expired’ Vulcan was landed on the grass at Halton.
Well if ‘it’ gets damaged, then it’s a suitable subject for training recovery and repairs.
But not necessarily a situation befitting the valued service of a Tornado.
The Vulcans and the Comet were all used for ground run training at one time so their " arrival " didn't have any long lasting damaging effects.
There's an irony, as others have said, about getting the airframes to Cosford, if that's the intention, because in a different era, BA landed a 707 and a 1-11 there plus a few other large airframes were also flown in. However, the VC10 carried out 2, presumably trial approaches, and then went home to Brize before coming back later by road.