http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...l/mof97101.jpg

Indeed Mike .. and marked up appropriately ;)

The Brazilian flag is because this is the Vulcan whose in-flight refuelling probe broke whilst attempting to get back to Ascension, resulting in a diversion to Rio De Janeiro. The aircraft stayed for several weeks under impound. Wonder if the crew did too ??

Think the crew were out of Brazil in a few days. If memory serves right, the capt was Neil McD who was also the display pilot in the mid 80s, though memory is a bit hazy.

Conan

VFRPilotpb,
No, that distinction belongs to XM607, who is currently suffering the same fate as the Blackpool Vulcan, as regards being left outside to gradually rot away.

The last time I saw her, she was gradually bubbling and rusting away to an early scrapyard.


AND THIS IS THE ONE OWNED BY THE RAF

Rocket Ive seen your thread , and quite frankly I think it is a disgrace, to keep one Vulcan looking good and with nice shiny Oleos would not take that much funding, kept as say a gate guardian at some relevent Vulcan base, but possibly now getting to late to do anything, would the RAF do or allow that with any of the BBMF A/c somehow I doubt it, but I feel the Vulcan and to that matter the Victor are worthy of presevation (not flying) so the children of today and tomorow who will be the TAX payers of the future will be able to see what the Brits did, during the Cold War period.


After all they poured many millions into Henry the VIIIs Flag ship after it was found crushed and totally knackered in the mud!


Vfr

Err... then I guess the two Vulcans, the Victor and Victor cockpit and the Valiant all held by the RAFM don't count?

Let alone the Vulcan and Victor held by the IWM....

Or the Vulcan at East Fortune...

All of these are state funded....

Whilat it is always great to see as many airframes as possible preserved the quality of that preservation has to be the primary driver..

As seen on a well known auction website:

http://i23.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/23/4e/54_1_b.JPG
£1000 each for the 4 engines and 2 grand for whats left of the cockpit. Dosnt strike me as being value for money, I would rather see the old girl in a recycling blast furnace after what has happened to her.

In 1956 one of Avro's Type 707research delta aircraft migrated from the UK to Australia. After seven years of test flying it retired to a suburban garden. The aircraft Avro 707A WD280, following its 7 years of research flying, was held in storage at Avalon until 1967 when the Department of Supply, on behalf of the British Air Ministry, sold it at auction to a Mr Geoffrey Mallet for A$1,000. The aircraft was then transported from Avalon to Mr Mallet's home in Williamstown and then lifted into his 44ft long garden. In February 1994 the Aeroplane Monthly reported that the aircraft was being well maintained by Mr Mallet and was in outstanding condition, quite a contrast to XL391. Can our friends in OZ confirm that WD280 is still being well looked after?

The Vulcan did not sell and having seen photographs of the inside of it, I wouldnt pay £20 never mind £2000. It has been butchered beyond recognition by trophy hunters and frankly it truly is scrap metal; for it would take a lot of alcohol and imagination to believe otherwise.