Guy Martin on the Vulcan

Demon James · Post by **Demon James** » Fri Nov 27, 15 12:49 pm

Channel four this Sunday night at half seven, Guy Martin on the final flight of XH558.

There seemed to be a fair bit of interest on here earlier this year so thought I'd give it a mention

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Nov 27, 15 12:50 pm

Thanks for posting

Dom66 · Post by **Dom66** » Fri Nov 27, 15 2:20 pm

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Fri Nov 27, 15 3:13 pm

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Sun Nov 29, 15 7:22 am

MEGA.................just MEGA , for those that speak Martin

Classic Statement from Dom on Gogglebox after he watched a GM programme and JM spewed a Sentance out

" What the Bananarama! is he saying "

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Sun Nov 29, 15 5:08 pm

Cant wait....looks great programme

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Sun Nov 29, 15 9:04 pm

Superb programme, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Must take a trip up to Donny to see the beastie some time.

Demon James · Post by **Demon James** » Mon Nov 30, 15 7:32 am

Awesome, just awesome

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Mon Nov 30, 15 8:59 am

Demon James wrote:Channel four this Sunday night at half seven, Guy Martin on the final flight of XH558.

There seemed to be a fair bit of interest on here earlier this year so thought I'd give it a mention

watched it last night , good program !! glad I saw it flying , for the last time .

thanks for the program Info , DJ

, would not have known it was on other wise , or found out too late

TW71 · Post by **TW71** » Mon Nov 30, 15 12:45 pm

Whys this darn country got a thing about pensioning things off, i mean what can replace experiencing something like that especially in the sky?

I don't buy the ''money / cost / hours of airframe'' thing either.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Nov 30, 15 12:56 pm

It is not money.

The leading technical companies would not underwrite their components as 558 has flown 10% further than any other Vulcan and they were not prepared to take the risk in the event of a failure / crash / investigation / litigation / PR, etc....

TW71 · Post by **TW71** » Mon Nov 30, 15 4:42 pm

Thats what I heard as well. Risk equals fear, which tries to destroy everything in the end. Its too bad they cannot get passed the control gods who take away most folks pleasure.

Very sad.

db · Post by db » Tue Dec 01, 15 10:25 am

Very sad but it's gone well beyond what it was built to do. As they pointed out in the show it's not like restoring an old Spitfire. The Vulcan is all electronic controls with no manual back-up. If one 50+year old component fails, 37 tons of fast moving metal drops out of the sky.

TW71 · Post by **TW71** » Tue Dec 01, 15 11:15 am

Yep, the same old Deimos & Phobos myth.

68 beeper · Post by **68 beeper** » Tue Dec 01, 15 6:15 pm

TW71 wrote:Whys this darn country got a thing about pensioning things off, i mean what can replace experiencing something like that especially in the sky?

I don't buy the ''money / cost / hours of airframe'' thing either.

Probably to do with the eu Telling us we can't fly it

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