Very OT Bt how do you take a Vulcan apart?

[TVR Slag's Bil]

With the sale of the Vulcan at Blackpool I thought some of you may be interested in these pics.

Vulcan B2 XL318 was dismantled in 1982 at RAF Scampton prior to road delivery to the RAF Museum at Hendon. This rare sequence of photographs by Bruce Woodruff shows 318 being reduced to road-transportable components.





























And then she went to Hendon by road!

[mybrainhurts]

Good grief...Airfix made that...?

[just dave]

mybrainhurts said:

Good grief...Airfix made that...?

No, Hasegawa. Too light a gauge to be Airfix!

Dave

[pstruck]

Even dismantled to that level the parts are enormous. Would have been interesting to see that little lot on the road!

Great pics.

[robocop]

Bet they had a washer left over when they put it back together!

Rgds

[Eric Mc]

Airfix do have a Vulcan in their range.

I think the one at Blackpool won't come apart so easily.

[ErnestM]

VERY OT BT HOW DO YOU TAKE A VULCAN APART?

Use two Romulans and a Klingon...

Coat Acquired, door spotted...


ErnestM

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

Airfix do have a Vulcan in their range.

I have to admit to having bought 2 Airfix Vulcan's during my childhood, both at my parents house in the loft.

One painted up in camouflage as Falklands Black Buck Vulcan XM607 - which is still around at RAF Waddington.

And the other is in original anit-radiation white as XL385.
Which ended it's days here - www.avrovulcan.org.uk/crown_copyright/385_scampton.htm


>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 12th November 21:00

[Extra 300 Driver]

pstruck said:

Even dismantled to that level the parts are enormous. Would have been interesting to see that little lot on the road! Great pics.

Here you go! From when they were in production.

[Buffalo]

ErnestM said:

VERY OT BT HOW DO YOU TAKE A VULCAN APART? Use two Romulans and a Klingon... Coat Acquired, door spotted... ErnestM

[Marquis_Rex]

ErnestM said:

VERY OT BT HOW DO YOU TAKE A VULCAN APART? Use two Romulans and a Klingon... Coat Acquired, door spotted... ErnestM

You beat me to it!

Most illogical Captain!

[wedg1e]

FourWheelDrift said:

One painted up in camouflage as Falklands Black Buck Vulcan XM607 - which is still around at RAF Waddington.

Arse! Wish I'd known - I was at Waddington week before last... could have blagged a look. The guys I was visiting do all the inspection work on the planes of the BBMF, amongst others...

Ian

[Extra 300 Driver]

607 is in a bit of a mess! I was there a few years ago, when I was in the RAF and I took a good look around her.

She is kept well away fron the puclic, although they can still have a good view from the roadside.

She is often out for the Waddington Airshow, and every year is meant to be her last.

[Extra 300 Driver]

Marquis_Rex said:

ErnestM said: VERY OT BT HOW DO YOU TAKE A VULCAN APART? Use two Romulans and a Klingon... Coat Acquired, door spotted... ErnestM You beat me to it! Most illogical Captain!

Am I missing something here??

[williamp]

Great photos. few questions and observations:

-On the 6th photo down it shows the fuselarge with an upper and lower decks. Is this what it seems, or is one the bomb bay, the other the crew compartment?

-Sherpa van. Nice!
-I never appreciated the scale until I saw thes ephotos (although I knew it was big). How heavy was it?
-Where can I get 2m high axle stands? Always wanted to work on my car without bending down AT ALL!!!

Once again, great photos. Many thanks for posting them

[Eric Mc]

Nice picture of the Vulcan components squeezing through the railway bridge. Almost as interesting are the advertising hoardings. The only brand name still in existence is Guinness.

[mrmaggit]

Eric Mc said:

Nice picture of the Vulcan components squeezing through the railway bridge. Almost as interesting are the advertising hoardings. The only brand name still in existence is Guinness.

That photo also begs the question, "Was the Vulcan bomber designed with the constraints of the size of that bridge in mind?"

[Eric Mc]

It might have been - but only if the bridge was always on the route from the factory to the assembly shop.

[Balmoral Green]

What a great picture, it really does contrast the high technology of the Vulcan with what the 'everyday man in the street' was living with at the time.

Guinness, a pint a day! And the truck! and the sign on the bridge! God I wish I could time travel.

[chrisgr31]

I wonder if the buyer of the Blackpool Vulcan has realised quite how much it is going to cost to move it too his pub, assumming it can be taken apart!