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Postby Craig. » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:00 am

Apparently the vulcan is due to fly into raf cottersmore today at about 15:40 local time.
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby expat » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:58 am

Apparently the vulcan is due to fly into raf cottersmore today at about 15:40 local time.



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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby C » Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:15 am

Adds to all the other rumours. ;) Although this has more substance than t'others. :)
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:03 am

She flew today!!!  :D
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:27 am

Oh sh*t. Apparently there has been a mayday declared... fire on board and she's not going back to brunty. Looks like she'll be landing at Cottesmore.

Let's hope she (and the crew) are OK.
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby Mictheslik » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:28 am

Landing at Cottesmore as I post, mayday cancelled....

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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:29 am

Apparently now down safely, surrounded by firetrucks.
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby C » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:49 am

Apparently now down safely, surrounded by firetrucks.



Normal for any emergency... ;)

As for the emergency itself, and having seen one or two other websites (not referring to anyone here), it's always reassuring to know that whilst one's busy dealing with such emergencies, it's being discussed in utmost detail on t'interweb... ::)
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:06 am

Yeah, I think the UKAR forum was at about 3 posts per second!  ;D ;D

Glad to hear she's OK though, hopefully just a minor problem.
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby C » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:57 am

Yeah, I think the UKAR forum was at about 3 posts per second!  ;D ;D


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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby expat » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:25 pm

Yeah, I think the UKAR forum was at about 3 posts per second!  ;D ;D


Not wrong there.
The link below is to page 13 of the thread. There are a a few photos, no sight of emergency activity during taxi. Hopefully an indication problem.
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby MrRooney » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:04 pm

looks like it was a small fault with the aap, sounds like the compass swing went to plan though :D
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Re: vulcan to fly today?

Postby FsNovice » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:14 am

Fly again, although another early landing due to problems with the Landing gear door

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