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A man has put his vintage Vulcan bomber up for sale on the internet auction site eBay. Brian Bateson bought the plane in 1983 and placed it at Blackpool airport for visitors to admire.

So who is going to buy this magnificent lawn ornament? Should annoy the neighbours even more than the gnomes

If only .................................... It would give next door something bigger to worry about than the cats  ;D

cheers
eno

A man has put his vintage Vulcan bomber up for sale on the internet auction site eBay. Brian Bateson bought the plane in 1983 and placed it at Blackpool airport for visitors to admire.

So who is going to buy this magnificent lawn ornament? Should annoy the neighbours even more than the gnomes

Hey, Mark. Where is the link?!!?!?

It hasn't appeared on eBay yet. This was just in the news this morning. I'm keeping my eyes peeled
Now if they could just do me a Blue Streak missile on eBay as well I could really sort out my ****ing neighbours

one slight problem with that Ozzy. you'd be homeless to :-/

Ahh lol - ic. I need to have a bit more patience...

we should create a Simviation Vulcan Fund so we can all get a part of it!  ;)

It hasn't appeared on eBay yet. This was just in the news this morning. I'm keeping my eyes peeled

It has. I saw it when Mark's post first appeared. Bidding then stood at

A bit beyond my current budget, as I'm busy trying to locate and buy instruments at the moment

hmmmmmmm, I can only imagine its museums that are bidding, but how in the hell are they going to move it. It hasn't flown for at least 22 years and never willl again and I don't want to think about the size of flatbeds you would need to move it by road  :o

I don't want to think about the size of flatbeds you would need to move it by road

I think they'd dismantle it section by section and crate it for the move

You don't want any motorist's crashing on account of looking at the Vulcan

Regards,
Stratobat

you would need to move it by road  :o

Ay.

Probably the transport will cost as much as the plane itself!

Ben

Cool  could mount your sim in the cockpit hehehe, dont worry about a homebuild one just get this and wire it in!

its at

Now, the bids are coming in. I guess this will go for a more than double the current price.

moving it wouldnt cost too much, depending on where its going. If the freight company gets significant coverage in the papers and on local tv/national they will prob even do a price break. Sadly though to move this would be simmilar to concorde to scotland, the wings would have to be removed with a saw,, then rebuilt back to original state, it looks like this needs alot of work anyway