Avro Vulcan B2

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www.castleairmuseum.org/avrovulcan

Vulcans, as part of the NATO nuclear deterrent, regularly visited the USA - lone ranger missions, bombing competitions and squadron deployments. Lucky old Americans! Lucky indeed because a number of Vulcans are now preserved in the US - first of all here's XM605 preserved at the Castle Air Museum. Delivered there in 1981, the RAF were back the next year to remove the refuelling probe (desperately needed during the Falklands war) but brought it back again afterwards. XM605 is in generally good condition and lacks only a brake chute, but there is some corrosion as you'd expect from an aircraft stored outside - and the cockpit has suffered a fair amount of water damage. See the XM605 home page for full details and lots of pictures.


www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/vulcan/survivorspics1....
www.spxtraining.com/niactest/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan
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Coordinates:   37°21'54"N   120°34'46"W

Comments

  • Pretty cool bird to see in flight. I got a 45 minute ride in one that was being delivered to a museum when the crew made a stop over at El Toro MCAS in the early '80's. I remember the plane looked pretty worked...even had a cracked cockpit windscreen. I couldn't see much during the ride, and I was holding the top of my head during most of the flight after smacking it really good while clibing up the ladder under the plane getting in but, it was an awsome ride nonetheless.
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