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Postby igs942 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:29 pm

The Vulcan oop north in Sunderland's NEAM rotates for the first time in 27 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8455110.stm

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Re: Taildragger

Postby DaveSims » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:16 pm

That happens every year to a couple of derelict GA planes on our ramp, but I've never seen it on something so big.
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Re: Taildragger

Postby expat » Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:47 am

A couple more pictures here.

It looks good, maybe they should just lower it a little to a more realistic take off angle and then leave it (also prevent people from climbing up the back of the wings)

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Re: Taildragger

Postby Al_Fallujah » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:55 am

The fork truck putting the RR "sleepers" (we call them ties) in place provides some scale. Thats a big bird to get tipped.
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Re: Taildragger

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:01 pm

A couple more pictures here.

It looks good, maybe they should just lower it a little to a more realistic take off angle and then leave it (also prevent people from climbing up the back of the wings)

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I believe that was suggested but apparently most of their funds come from letting people go into the cockpit etc....you couldn't do that if it was left rotating....

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