[timbo]

The Avro Vulcan being restored in the UK was sucessfully test flown today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7049694.stm?lsm

Wonderful - Never though it would happen. Just shows what a bit of determination can do.

[kabelace]

Great to see one flying again. Seen one flying many times when I was young, as there was a chap from the area who got into the RAF and became a pilot of one of those beast. Any time he was doing joint training or air shows in Canada or the Eastern USA and got permission to go home he would always do some nice slow and low passes over my home town. What a sight.

[smartd]

Vulcans were regulars at airshows over here for years.
Was always a crowd pleaser.
Nice that we now have another flying again.
Maybe sometime it will make its way back over the pond.

[Phantom Phan1200]

Great story.
It's good to see cold war birds get there due restored to flying condition.
A lot of people say most cold war jets are far too complex & expensive to restore to flying condition, guess this proves some of them wrong.
I would love to see a B-52D in SEA camo flying at air shows.

[Nimrod48]

The Vulcan was always the highlight of a Duxford display for me & where ever it is displayed in the future I am sure it will get a huge reception, hats off to all that made this possible

[JustPlaneNuttz]

That is very impressive indeed. Now someone has to get one of those mothballed B-58 Hustlers flying again. Then we'd have another piece of majestic 'delta-wing darkness'.

[Rush104]

I've heard that someone is restoring a Vought F7U Cutlass to flying condition..that will be cool to see fly again!

[ZS-VAN]

This is absolutely awesome! Outstanding! Great news. There's a long thread on the DAF if anyone is interested.

[timbo]

Originally Posted by Phantom Phan1200

Great story.
It's good to see cold war birds get there due restored to flying condition.
A lot of people say most cold war jets are far too complex & expensive to restore to flying condition, guess this proves some of them wrong.
I would love to see a B-52D in SEA camo flying at air shows.

Well sort of. This almost failed last year due to lack of funds. It needed an anonymous 500k pounds donation, and this was already after a hell of a lot of money had been poured into her.. The bird has been impeccably kept since retirement, anything less and there would be no chance of getting it in the air.

I'm just so glad it succeeded this far. They now just have to raise the funds to keep her operational.

[no4mkit]

Originally Posted by Rush104

I've heard that someone is restoring a Vought F7U Cutlass to flying condition..that will be cool to see fly again!

Wow - really? With original underpowered, unreliable Westinghouse (toaster) engines?? Not that I wouldn't love to see it, but I'd stay well back of that flight line!