vulcan bomber

[deggers316]

so the last flying vulcan is being grounded for good after 1 more flight next year,
as i said before long overdue before a major incident with this old crate

[baza]

BBMF has planes older and they keep them flying without incidents.

[deggers316]

but flying "what for!the vulcan needs £400.000 for its annual winter check just for one more flight.if the sponsors want to keep chucking money at it ,there prerogative

[baza]

so as its not your money then whats your gripe.

[deggers316]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...th-yorkshire-19926464

[Stephen_G]

More here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...th-yorkshire-19926464

[deggers316]

spend you money on a something worthwhile and not a death trap

[deggers316]

http://www.pistonhead...ult.asp?storyId=26514

[Ann]

Thanks Judge N for sending me the depressing news yesterday I didn't see it until late last night. How sad that is all these beautiful old planes now going or gone - Concorde, the Harriers and now the Vulcan.
Deggers - can't understand your attitude - do you not feel the need to preserve these national treasures or do you have personal resentment against the funding, which incidentally is all from donations??

[commoner]

deggers,,she may be old but please do NOT refer to this wonderful aicraft as "a crate.".......

[emmie]

one of the all time great aircraft, hardly a crate.

[Ann]

Absolutely commoner - we have seen the Vulcan several times in the past few weeks (see my threads on here) and it's an enormous privilege to see it fly so low overhead, a wonderful sight. I too object to it being called an old crate. Could it be that Deggers has something personal against it? :(

[New Judge]

Very true, em.

Read a book entitled "Empire of the Skies" by James Hamilton-Paterson. There you will see described a number of these "old crates" which were developed and built by the various aircraft manufacturers which the UK had after WW2 until the late 60s. You will also learn how that industry was decimated by government inaction, prevarication and outright obstruction and you will wonder how some of these old crates managed to get into the air at all.

The Avro Vulcan was designed sixty years ago but remains, along with the Gloster Javelin and the EE Lightning, one of the finest aircraft of its type. To describe it as an old crate defies belief.

[FredPuli43]

Didn't pilots in the Great War use 'the crate' as an affectionate term for their own plane ? Presumably that was a jocular reference to its fuselage looking like a wooden packing crate, covered in fabric.

[deggers316]

so not one comment on its superior the "Victor"??
nothing against the old vulcan crate apart from the memories of sleepless nights in the 60s but its just a war plane thats over hyped