Vulcan XL361
 

Hello
Does anyone have any info or pics on the Vulcan at Goos Bay? I had heard recently that her paint is faded badly and some damage to her..?

18 months old pic.
http://planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=362506

Allegedly March 06

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/images/xl361.jpg

looks pretty ggod..
 

I wonder what if anything survives inside?

Taken by myself whilst on det at Goose, Aug 2003.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/9.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/8.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/7.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/6.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/5.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/4.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/3.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/2-1.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/robstuff/1.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...00751Small.jpg

The last one shows damage to the crew access door, her paint was faded 4 years ago so unless she's been repainted, i suspect it will only look worse now!

p_j

nice pics pj
 

I see the cover of the electrical junction box has gone walkies

The cover has been missing for at least ten years. The aircraft is in very poor condition.

Please pardon my ignorance but is this the Vulcan that fell through a drain of some sort - or am I confusing it with an incident at Offut?:confused:

XL361
 

I have several photographs of XL361 sitting on it's tail after a refuelling incident at Goose and if I ever find out how to attach them I will. Any help as the instruction don't seem to work or am I being blonde?http://www.pprune.org/forums/XL361%20Goose%20Bay%201

K3K3
 

Did you take photos of it?

Afraid not, it was before the advent of digital cameras and it was that cold I thought the film might crack rather than roll!:eek:

FZ - no. The Vulcan that bust through the drain was repaired and flown back to Waddington. However, after that transit flight it was subsequently scrapped without having flown again.

FJJP

Many thanks - my synapses must have fused ... hey ho!:\

FJJP,

I was involved in repairing a Vulcan (think '361) at Scampton after it had fallen through a drain at Goose, sometime circa '74 / '76. It had been given temporary repairs for the ferry flight across the pond (wooden frames in ECM bay etc). It was definitely restored to flight status.

Maybe there were more than one??

Rigex et al, apologies - put it down to a senior moment. My previous post was about the jet who had a massive hot air leak but continued on to the Goose. The severe damage was repaired to minimum standard fit to fly one flight only - I fuelled to max to escort the ac back across the pond, acting as top cover for SAR and providing navigation assistance. It was cat 5 shortly after its recovery to Waddington.

361 I flew many times between 76 and 81.

Sorry about the confusion in my ancient and remaining brain cell.

FJJP

No probs, have those moments myself!

I remember it for two reasons, one being the assembly of a spine skin to the fuselage with black bostick compound on one surface and green zinc chromate on the other - took weeks to get me clean after that!

The other was the attempts by our (71 MU) specialist sheet metal chaps to hand roll a wing skin which went on the lower port wing inboard of the jet pipes. It had about 6 different curvatures and we / they went through quite a few attempts with no success. Until one day, a civvy driver from Barkstone came in to deliver something or other...took one look and said that they had 'undreds" lying on a rack there - how many did we want!

IIRC the aircraft was actually a waddington aircraft and I have a vague recollection that it may have been Terry Danby's crew, but then that could all be b*ll*x.

I do recall what happened however.

It was normal to do a hangar start, the crew would crew in and do the pre-flight checks up to engine start. It would then be shut down and towed out with the crew still on board. Once outside it would be powered up and started in short order thus minimising freezing time outdoors.

On this occasion the aircraft, fully fuelled, crashed through the concrete floor. IIRC the hangars were the RAF pre-war standard hangars, or very similar, and the sand below the concrete had simply shifted over the years.

The joke at the time was "Any more comments about concrete evidence and I shall . . . "

PS, the shifting sands also undermined other buildings too. There was a multi-story accommodation block on the Mexican side that used to house all the schoolies, nurses etc and in which many hours fun could be had (60s). When I was there in the 70s the block was closed, abandoned and forelorn as it now had the leans and was in danger of collapse.

The old 'Goose Hilton'!

Oi! can we get back on topic please...!
 

Please keep this on topic and not drifting off onto general goose bay nattering.;)

Peppermint Jam,

Thanks for those pics. You've also unwittingly just done me a bit of a favour with your pic showing the bottom half of the Hydraulic Panel. :ok:

Cheers


Flipflopman