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Now that is cool.Good for you guys.Can you bring it to the states?

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I can't believe someone would tackle restoring such a plane, let alone fly it ! Awesome ! She looks magnificient...

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It had a 20min first test flight and has now landed back at Brunty.

Congrats to all involved.........finally.

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Excellent!!! maybe we might make a trip across the pond and go see this cold war heritage bomber in flight sometime.

Shame us yanks cant do anything like ti with our 1950s bombers
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HGUCSU, see the Vulcan thread for more info why it is unlikely to happen here.
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The plan was to take her to the States for a season at some point.
I would urge you all to go and see the "Tin Triangle" just once. Mind you airshows won't be the same after you have!

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Beautiful sight! Not being familiar with the technical aspects of the Vulcan. I am curious as to what the function is of the connecting structure at the bottom rear portion of the starboard engine housings?
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Wow! It looks great! I haven't seen a Vulcan in 20 years, back at the old days of Mildenhall Air Fetes. If you bring that to the states, count on me to be there.
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Beautiful sight! Not being familiar with the technical aspects of the Vulcan. I am curious as to what the function is of the connecting structure at the bottom rear portion of the starboard engine housings?


Without going to look it up exactly, I think it's a flat plate aerial for some of the electronic whatsits. Technical term, you understand. :)
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Yes, the connecting plate is the mouning point for some the various ECM antenna on the aircraft. The Brit's called them "counterpoise" panels and most aircraft only had one fitted to the starboard engine pipes, however, some aircraft (mainly the MR variants) received 2 panels as they had additional instrumentation aerials mounted there.
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