TOPBUNKER

It's got it's legs back now - which was quite a significant 'stopper' for test flying.

Expect it to be be flying by the end of June.

(This is just a rumour site isn't it!)

BEagle

Spoke to those in the know last Sunday....

Things are looking good for a first flight once the aircraft is back on her legs and has completed the necessary ground checks. The CAA test pilot is champing at the bit and both the CAA and MA are eager to get things moving.

I would wager a few quid that the aircraft will display at Waddo, but, as in all things aeronautical, it is by no means certain. Never forget the UK weather either....

Would all the doom merchants and sundry misery-guts please form an orderly queue and foxtrot oscar. Eyethangyooo!!

shawshank

AIRSHOW FM at Waddington have just announced that they have provisionally removed the vulcan from the display programme due to concerns about the amount of work outstanding on the aircraft. They will slot it back in if it becomes servicable but are ahead of the game after being slated last year for not advertising that the vulcan wouldn't be flying.

Good on the airshow for not letting punters down on the day. VTTS - come on, this can't go on. The funds will dry up sometime soon.

deltapapa

I am not defending them in any way but they do send email updates but you need to register for them on the TVST site.

Normally they are copied & pasted on to other fora but as the feed back from Pprune is always so hostile I think those that did it have now stopped.

There were updates on the 2nd & 11th June & it stated that there would be another update this week - which looks like it will be tomorrow now.

The last update said they would not make public any venues until she has her paperwork in order.

Alber Ratman

Using a Haynes manual won't keep the CAA happy..

Checkflaps

Well, for what its worth.......

RAF Lyneham - Flying Info

Waddo still a posibility, just got to hope the CAA test pilot is free next week.

CF

Wander00

Wonder if the guy who put all that cash in thinks he got value for money?

Amos Keeto

..hmm bottomless pitt....how many million?

hurn

Yeah, and....... It's not coming out of your pocket is it.

srobarts

Update on VTTS site today:
VTTS News
News about Waddington next week......

SENTENEL

Winco

Hurn

How do you know its not coming out of AK's pocket??

It has certainly come out of many other peoples' pocket and it is again an utter disgrace that those people have been treated in such a dreadful manner.

No news, no nothing, typical TVOC and typical Pleming.

You can bet your socks that they will get a 'permit to test' on friday and get it to Waddington, where it will spend the whole weekend on the ground. Then we will be able to listen to all the so-called 'experts' telling us why it can't fly and whose fault it is (everybody's except theirs)

The whole project is nothing short of a joke and I am astonished that Pleming is still in a job. How can that be? The man is incompetant beyond belief.

Oh well, same old story. I don't know why I am surprised really. After all, they've only known about Waddington for about..mmmmm oh yes, 12 months!

Winco

deltapapa

As I said over the page if you want to receive updates straight to your in box sign up for them......

This was the issued yesterday

Vulcan to the Sky Trust - Avro Vulcan Bomber XH558 - Vulcan To The Sky Trust

click the top item right hand side of the page under 'Latest News'


I do agree there could be more official updates/news but to say there is no news is just not true. The engineers also give regular updates on the TVST forum - which is viewable to non members.


And I love the video from MaPS well done them

andrewmcharlton

Isn't this just the same old story?

Poor PR totheir "investors" and piss poor at keeping folks engaged?

What happened to Pleming's supposed planned departure I think even he talked of?

waco

..the biggest waste of money EVER.

For a small percentage of the sums spent we could probably have built Sterling, Hampden, Halifax and Manchester replica's with enough left over to put a mossi back in the air.........

The whole thing is just crazy.

Don't get me wrong I love the Vulcan, its a Manchester ship but for goodness sake..........just STOP.

JEM60

But don't forget that thousands and thousands of the Great British Public have looked up in awe at this wondrous piece of engineering, according to Dr.P.
Truth probably is, that if they bothered to look up at all, then they wouldn't have a clue what they were seeing. Even my wife, who works at Duxford on Show Days, remarked, after it's two passes a year or so ago, commented 'is that it, then!! Is that what all the fuss has been about, it wasn't worth it.'
I like the aircraft too, but it has been overhyped, oversold, and hopelessly undermanaged.

Winco

Same old story really. Yesterday was the 'permit to test' day so you would have expected them to have updated their web site, but in true TVOC tradition.........absolutely nothing!

They will probably drag it out until friday for the PTT, fly it and land at Waddo and then blame everyone else AGAIN for not getting the paperwork sorted. Still, it will get the public into Waddington I guess.

TVOC, a bunch of amateurs??? nah, they're not even that good. Incompetance I would suggest is a more accurate reflection of them.

Any news on when Dr P will go and we can get someone who knows what they are doing in charge of this joke?

Evanelpus

Winco, I wouldn't worry too much about this. I think many, many loyal supporters of 558 who have donated money to get this magnificent aircraft to fly again are royally jacked off by the whole situation. Come the next appeal they will not dig deep again and 2011 will see the Vulcan confined to the ground....somewhere.

Sadly, what started out as a bunch of highly motivated enthusiasts trying to get the Vulcan into the air again has manifested itself into a business with large sums of money involved. IMHO, Dr P should have gone ages ago.

558 RIP!

Evanelpus

Phew, that must have taken some doing coming up with that response!

Where you say sad, grumpy old tw*ats, insert the word realists. The Vulcan is a cash cow and is becoming a liability. I sweat blood working on them for 10 years and know exactly the kind of maintenace issues it suffers from. For whatever reason (and please don't bleat on about late funding, that shouldn't have been an issue if the project was being run correctly), 558 should have been ready for the start of the airshow programme.

Just think how many other classic aircraft could have been saved using money donated to 558.

Winco

hurn,

Why do you think that we are being sad and grumpy? Have you donated to the project? Are you not just a little peeved that half way through the airshow season, there is no sign of 558? Arn't you concerned that there has been no word on the aircraft? Don't you want to know where millions of pounds is/has been spent? Are you happy with the way TVOC is being (mis) managed??

If you don't, then that's fine, but I would suggest that it is you therefore that is sad, certainly not the rest of us.

And as for tw*ts - why not try being just a little more adult and grown up instead of your childish, schoolboy name calling?

Have a nice day!