The Vulcan Lives !!!

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:14 pm

TVOC plans on flying the airplane for 10-15 years. At that time, the cycle limit on the engines will be reached and there are no others in rebuildable condition, so the airplane will then have to be grounded. The airframe is good for another 20+ years (according to the sources I've found) so there is always the possibility that it will keep flying longer if some more Olympus 101s show up somewhere in a barn in Scotland.

I've already seen inquiries in another forum from a person involved in the program about potential stops in the US so hopefully we'll see her in American skies again in the future.

Dream show - AirSho '08 - Air Atlantique's Shack with the Vulcan doing a flyby followed by a flyby of a B-2 with the Vulcan.

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3333

mustangdriver wrote:

Do they plan on keeping it in flying condition? That is awsome.

Not much point in spending $10m - $13m (depending on which figure you believe) restoring it if they don't. Now all they need to do is raise the annual $2.5m+ plus inflation that they need to keep it airworthy - say $30m over the next 10 year! :shock:

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:31 pm

Hey Mike is there a group or a web site for this aircraft?

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3333

http://www.tvoc.co.uk/

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:31 pm

Thanks Mike, I am going to become a member.

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:55 pm

CAPFlyer wrote:

Dream show - AirSho '08 - Air Atlantique's Shack with the Vulcan doing a flyby followed by a flyby of a B-2 with the Vulcan.

USAF airshow at RAF Mildenhall, some years ago.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:00 pm

JDK that is awsome. I heard that there are plans in the works to move the Vulcan from Barksdale to Dayton. This is just scuttlebut around the museum I heard, so I am not sure if there is any truth to it.

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:16 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

JDK that is awsome.

It's amazing what you see if you just hang around long enough. That said, in hindsight it's clear the late eighties early nineties was a 'golden age' for airshow variety in the UK, for a number of reasons. The bonus of eastern European metal after Glasnost was, again, a brief and impressive flood.

RickH · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:29 pm

They'll play heII moving that big piece of iron from Shreveport to Dayton.

Why not just take the one from the SAC Museum, it's closer and they'll probably give it up without a fight !

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:30 pm

I have no idea. Like I said it was just talk, so I am not 100% sure it will happen.

EDowning · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:31 pm

If I could get myself one of those Vulcans to fly I could fly the Skyraider all I want under my "Theory of Aviation Relativity". Wow, I could probably even sell my MG.

Yes, it's my MG Midget, that serves a very important purpose. I use it to reinforce "my theroy of aviation relativity", 10 years ago, when I bought my Bonanza, I thought it was brutually expensive to operate, then I bought the Yale and the T-6 and I realized that the Bonanza was nearly free to operate, so I bought the Skyraider and suddenly I could fly the Yale and the T-6 all I wanted because the were realitivly free to operate compared to the Skyraider. So, you see, if I didn't own the MG, I could never afford to fly the Spad. A Vulcan would solve all of my cost issues with the rest of the warbirds.

Firebird · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:25 am

mustangdriver wrote:

I have no idea. Like I said it was just talk, so I am not 100% sure it will happen.

I'd venture to say it's probably less than 1% likely to happen... :wink:

I think (those more knowledgeable will either confirm/refute) that such a move has only been done once, and that was the disassembly and reassembly of the Vulcan that is in the RAFM Hendon. That was done at the end of it's RAF service by current experienced RAF Vulcan personnel and 'crash n smash', and yet by all accounts was far from easy as the a/c was never, IIRC, designed to be taken apart for road transportation as such.

So, yes, technically it could be done........

However, it would be nice to see a Vulcan represented at Dayton though....

Flat 12x2 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:35 am

JDK wrote:

The RAF (part of the MOD, of course) is celebrating 50 years of operating the Battle of Britain Memorial flight this year; currently a Lancaster, two Hurricanes, five Spitfires (I lose count) and two Chipmunks.

James , I'm sure just an oversight , you forgot the C-47 :roll:

Firebird · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:42 am

CAPFlyer wrote:

I've already seen inquiries in another forum from a person involved in the program about potential stops in the US so hopefully we'll see her in American skies again in the future.

Interesting........but, maybe not such an easy undertaking as when they were in RAF service, as she's now restricted to VFR flight and with say a ceiling of maybe FL010, because supposidly, she's only got something like 3 or so cabin pressurisation cycles left in her. Something to do with the canopy seals or something and they cannot be replaced. So, a transatlantic hop isn't going to be as easy as it would be otherwise.

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:51 am

Flat 12x2 wrote:

JDK wrote:

The RAF (part of the MOD, of course) is celebrating 50 years of operating the Battle of Britain Memorial flight this year; currently a Lancaster, two Hurricanes, five Spitfires (I lose count) and two Chipmunks.

James , I'm sure just an oversight , you forgot the C-47 :roll:

Rats. I knew there was something else... The old memory's not what it... not.. something. I can't remember.

Thanks!

But I do remember (now reminded, ta) it's a Dak.

[EDIT: The BBMF call it both. Rats rats...]

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