Bye bye to Marham’s Victor
Bye bye to Marham’s Victor
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Tony1963

Original Poster:

5,808 posts

185 months

Friday 12th February 2021
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I don’t become emotionally attached to aircraft, but this is a sad video

Its gone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwPnFu6EV8

spikep

504 posts

305 months

Friday 12th February 2021
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I assume someone has saved it, otherwise it would have been chopped up.

spitfire-ian

4,106 posts

251 months

Friday 12th February 2021
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spikep said:
I assume someone has saved it, otherwise it would have been chopped up.
Not according to this https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/victor/su...

"It is hoped that some parts may be preserved, particularly the nose section, but as of early December 2020 most of the airframe has been taken away for scrap."

Tony1963

Original Poster:

5,808 posts

185 months

Friday 12th February 2021
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Chatting with guys that worked on Tornado there until 2018, it was a rotting, sad old heap. A money pit for anyone wanting to restore any part of it, and old kebab wrappers stuffed in every orifice by tipsy bachelors wandering back to their barrack blocks.

It's fixable...

471 posts

228 months

Saturday 13th February 2021
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Looking at the video all the work is being done by uniformed personnel using equipment with military number plates = not much chance of it being collected by a buyer, as in that case the personnel and equipment would be civilian...

Unfortunately looks to have definitely only been fit for the scrapper

swampy442

1,831 posts

234 months

Saturday 13th February 2021
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Much like the Beverly, you cant save them all. I dont reckon the Vulcan at Waddington will be far behind, given the state of it,