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Tiger

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17th Dec 09 at 18:36

Don't know if anyone read a post of mine in Off Day about the Vulcans?

Well, Heritage are leasing a factory unit that my company own, next door to where I work. They are using it for the Vulcan division and are storing all the vulcan parts in there.

I popped in to fix the heating today and the guy said he'd show me round so I agreed.

They have 4 brand new Olympus engines in there, and spares engine. The spares engine they have is now scrap, which is a shame - A piece of tar the size of a 5p piece went into the engine and totalled it. Apparently, even a sparrow flying into the engine would mean catastrophic failure on these units. Rolls Royce scrapped the engine moulds years ago, so once the engines are gone, they really are gone.....forever, never to be repaired etc.

It's so honourable how they are keeping the plane in the air, it costs £2.5m to keep it flying, each of the olympus engines - the last in existence (

) cost something like £2m each!!

They had undercarriage parts, radars, cockpits and all the essentials, including the jet engine that starts the main engines of the Vulcan - they are going to run the starter jet up in the carpark soon and run it to full boost, they ran it the other day on tickover and trust me, it would have woke ALL the neighbours!!

Anyway, I just think its such a great project, look out for the Vulcan at airshows around the country next year!

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17th Dec 09 at 18:45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98ZnZs-2ds

Nick-S

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17th Dec 09 at 19:01

wish i had random days like that.

Tiger

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17th Dec 09 at 19:04

quote:
Originally posted by GSi_16v
wish i had random days like that.

My days arent always like that, trust me. I ended up at warwick uni fixing faults on a restaurant counter

Nick-S

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17th Dec 09 at 19:08

still bit of a nice suprise.

Budgie

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17th Dec 09 at 19:11

the camoflage was propper poor, i saw the whole thing.

On a serious note tho, I've seen it a few times as I work near a RAF base and it flys by a few times a year. Cool Stuff

I do enjoy the eurofighter more tho. That thing is funking loud when given it some.

Cosmo

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17th Dec 09 at 19:11

live long and prosper

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17th Dec 09 at 19:13

quote:
Originally posted by jr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98ZnZs-2ds

Aircraft with piston engines are shit

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17th Dec 09 at 19:16

quote:
Originally posted by Budgie
the camoflage was propper poor, i saw the whole thing.
On a serious note tho, I've seen it a few times as I work near a RAF base and it flys by a few times a year. Cool Stuff
I do enjoy the eurofighter more tho. That thing is funking loud when given it some.

euro fighter has re-heat and about 40 years on the vulcan, is smaller, and has computers doing clever shit

Jambo

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17th Dec 09 at 21:00

quote:
Originally posted by ed

quote:
Originally posted by jr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98ZnZs-2ds

Aircraft with piston engines are shit

oh no you didnt

Limecat

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17th Dec 09 at 21:07

When I worked for BAE systems at Woodford they used to get us to help this bunch of retired old duffers on XM603.

The thing was an absolute pile of corroding shit, I think they must have just needed something to do?

I can remember having to go into the intakes on my knees and spin the rotors with my hands, even though you know it's not going to start up it is still pretty daunting.

SportBoy

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17th Dec 09 at 21:20

bac lightning is the only coldwar plane that should be allowed to fly

leon.

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18th Dec 09 at 00:39

do the raf have a big bomber jet plane now?

Ste

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18th Dec 09 at 00:45

tbh, It is an awesome beast, but really, what is so special? It's just big.

Considering, only 20 years after the vulcan came the harrier, which is able to stop mid air, then fly left and right and even backwards, which is a much greater feat than being big.

Then we have the TSR2, far superior aircraft to the Vulcan, yet cut off before it had chance to prove its worth.

Please don't think I'm knocking the Vulcan, but they are still way down on the impressive list.

I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.

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18th Dec 09 at 08:52

quote:
Originally posted by jr

quote:
Originally posted by Budgie
the camoflage was propper poor, i saw the whole thing.
On a serious note tho, I've seen it a few times as I work near a RAF base and it flys by a few times a year. Cool Stuff
I do enjoy the eurofighter more tho. That thing is funking loud when given it some.

euro fighter has re-heat and about 40 years on the vulcan, is smaller, and has computers doing clever shit

Can get you to 30,000 by the perimeter fence though

Corsa_Quadz

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18th Dec 09 at 10:31

What a fantastic piece of british engineering.

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18th Dec 09 at 10:47

quote:
Originally posted by Ste W
tbh, It is an awesome beast, but really, what is so special? It's just big.

Considering, only 20 years after the vulcan came the harrier, which is able to stop mid air, then fly left and right and even backwards, which is a much greater feat than being big.

Then we have the TSR2, far superior aircraft to the Vulcan, yet cut off before it had chance to prove its worth.

Please don't think I'm knocking the Vulcan, but they are still way down on the impressive list.

unfortuatley ste, as we both know, it draws more people to airshows than anything else

the noise, and a plane that size beeing than manovable, wth 1940's technolgy is impressive

you cant bring the tsr2 into it either

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18th Dec 09 at 10:49

oh it also bombed the shot out of port stanley, when it was supposed to be retired and the raf remeberd they didnt actully have anything else to use

it also made the quite incridible swap from high altitude bomber to low level

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18th Dec 09 at 10:50

quote:
Originally posted by SportBoy
bac lightning is the only coldwar plane that should be allowed to fly

thunded valley crashed there's a few weeks back

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18th Dec 09 at 10:55

603 has been or will be scrapped but all the good bits are with tiger for use on 558

Tiger

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20th Dec 09 at 12:25

quote:
Originally posted by jr
603 has been or will be scrapped but all the good bits are with tiger for use on 558

Nick-S

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20th Dec 09 at 18:02

quote:
Originally posted by SportBoy
bac lightning is the only coldwar plane that should be allowed to fly

BAC??

you mean English Electric

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20th Dec 09 at 18:05

The Vulcan has an amazing silhouette when it passes overhead. Very daunting, and the noise!

SportBoy

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20th Dec 09 at 18:31

quote:
Originally posted by GSi_16v

quote:
Originally posted by SportBoy
bac lightning is the only coldwar plane that should be allowed to fly
BAC??
you mean English Electric

taken from wiki

English Electric was later incorporated into the British Aircraft Corporation, later marks being developed and produced as the BAC Lightning.

Nick-S

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20th Dec 09 at 18:32

so we were both right then

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