Vulcan to Wittering

[Barch]

I hope that they have stopped the "Robin Hood" rubbish since Finningly is not even in Nottinghamshire.

Robin of Loxley came from Sheffield, us Yorkshire folk only let Snottingham have him as their folk hero because they have got nowt else to be proud of!!

 

[Realist78]

I hope that they have stopped the "Robin Hood" rubbish since Finningly is not even in Nottinghamshire.

This gives a broader knowledge (if true) of RH.

 

[Verde falco]

My sons in BAE and said that XH558 is sitting in the BAE hanger at Doncaster (Ex-Finningly). Oh the good old days when I use to work on her.

 

[Barch]

My sons in BAE and said that XH558 is sitting in the BAE hanger at Doncaster (Ex-Finningly). Oh the good old days when I use to work on her.

At the moment XH558 is parked on the ramp outside the terminal building at Donny.

After the May bank holiday it is moving back onto the old Dominie flight line, it will eventually be moved into the old Dominie shed (3 Hangar). At the moment this hangar houses BAe & Lufthansa training equipment in the south western half with the north eastern half empty.

The red lines are along the lines airport security fence.

 

[justintime129]

I'm getting my brother to make me the airfix model of xh558. What is the camo scheme at the moment and was the best in peoples opinions


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[John Lloyd]

I'm getting my brother to make me the airfix model of xh558. What is the camo scheme at the moment and was the best in peoples opinions


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I'm thinking it's in matt grey/green wrapround

Gloss grey/green uppers with big shiny proud roundels. When The Royal Air Force was a Force.

 

[Realist78]

I'm thinking it's in matt grey/green wrapround

Gloss grey/green uppers with big shiny proud roundels. When The Royal Air Force was a Force.

The gloss grey/green was only for 27 Sqn (easier to wash off radioactive contamination). The rest were painted matt (except the very early days of gloss white).DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[Barch]

I'm getting my brother to make me the airfix model of xh558. What is the camo scheme at the moment and was the best in peoples opinions


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Check these photos the boss has taken from the office window.

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[grumpyoldb]

Check these photos the boss has taken from the office window.


Only the first link seems to work, mate!

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Current Airfix kit has the correct current markings for 558, which is a gloss dark green/dark sea grey wrap around scheme with gloss red / blue roundels top of wing and sides and fin flashes. (kits other markings are XM607 in Black Buck scheme (matt dg/dsg and matt extra dark sea grey underside with plyons (you will need a AN/ALQ 101 Dash 10 ECM pod from an Airfix Buccaneer kit if building it in operational configuration), a 9 (or 27) sqn one in a matt dg/dsg with matt light aircraft grey underside and a 617 Sqn Blue Steel equipped one in anti-flash gloss white).

 

[Barch]

Check these photos the boss has taken from the office window.


Only the first link seems to work, mate!

I will get them edited, they are on Facebook so require a login, I will get them loaded onto a public host.

 

[justintime129]

So then Matt camo all the way round and red white and blue roundels.

Next question wheels up or down and could I get away with the bomb bay being open. Doing some sort of diorama maybe


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[Ex-Bay]

I will get them edited, they are on Facebook so require a login, I will get them loaded onto a public host.

I have a facebook account and all I got was:-
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[Barch]

Colour scheme Photos ...

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[grumpyoldb]

Colour scheme Photos ...

Cheers mate! DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Barch]

Colour scheme Photos ...

Cheers mate! DT_Xtremez_14:

I bet those views bring back a few memories.

 

[grumpyoldb]

I bet those views bring back a few memories.

You're not kidding.................. single and free. Well, divorced and very easy! DT_Xtremez_42:

Back to the hairy planes, those views could've been taken from our line office.
Shed 3, 1st office to the right of the fire doors as you look out onto the pan.

 

[Barch]

You're not kidding.................. single and free. Well, divorced and very easy! DT_Xtremez_42:

Back to the hairy planes, those views could've been taken from our line office.
Shed 3, 1st office to the right of the fire doors as you look out onto the pan.

Taken from the yellow dot in This View .

 

[grumpyoldb]

Taken from the yellow dot in This View .

Half a shed out but close enough. Funny, I don't remember to undulations in the concrete like that. Maybe just the camera doing it, or it could've been the alcoholic haze when I was there. DT_Xtremez_42: DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[MAINJAFAD]

So then Matt camo all the way round and red white and blue roundels.

Next question wheels up or down and could I get away with the bomb bay being open. Doing some sort of diorama maybe


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558 was painted in the gloss finish warp round cammo when the RAF made her the display aircraft, though the gloss has faded over time.

The Vulcan B2's started out gloss all white, with pale pink / white / pale blue roundels.

The normal red/white/blue roundels where only used on the B2's when the aircraft were gloss green/grey with white undersides, which was when the fleet went low level in the 1960s.

When the undersides were painted matt light aircraft grey, the topside cammo went matt as well as the roundels (which lost the white).

and this was followed by the all over wrap around (again roundels and fin flash were low vis (i.e. no white))

then there were the Black Buck Aircraft when the undersides were painted matt extra dark sea grey (this is the one that ended up in Rio)

As for the open bomb bay, that has to be scratch built (but 1-72 scale plans are available (I've got them, and it is not that hard to do)).