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Looking at the XH558 twitter page, it seems the aircraft is out of the hangar and fuelled up.

Possible test flight this weekend perhaps?

https://twitter.com/XH558

so the information i was told at a certain base on thrs night by VIP going through a( rear ) crashgate may be true?














crashgate may be true?

Lowfly11 wrote:Weather forecast lots of heavy rain Saturday..weather forecast on local news say it might clear later in the day..Sunday looks a better forecast.Regards Tim

Yeah, looks a North/South split weather wise today as it's perfectly clear and sunny down here, but as you say it looks more favourable for them tomorrow.

I notice on the VttS website that they've got an 'Afternoon Tea' event on Sunday but I don't know if that is of any relevance, other than to say it would be a bit boring drinking a cuppa in an empty hangar with a Vulcan sat outside doing nothing.

Hurn wrote:

Lowfly11 wrote:Weather forecast lots of heavy rain Saturday..weather forecast on local news say it might clear later in the day..Sunday looks a better forecast.Regards Tim

Yeah, looks a North/South split weather wise today as it's perfectly clear and sunny down here, but as you say it looks more favourable for them tomorrow.

I notice on the VttS website that they've got an 'Afternoon Tea' event on Sunday but I don't know if that is of any relevance, other than to say it would be a bit boring drinking a cuppa in an empty hangar with a Vulcan sat outside doing nothing.

the info i was told would be landing at a certain base

If only the Vulcan could generate cash like it does rumour and speculation...

There is the intention to fly later today subject to weather......... Anyone any ideas where?

Captian Hodgkinson wrote:There is the intention to fly later today subject to weather......... Anyone any ideas where?

yes! so i have heard

The aircraft is undergoing a before flight check, while the aircrew are planning the sortie

if the information i have is correct i may divulge it' i know what some people are like on these
sites if it doesnt come off!

Any info would be much appreciated
Is it heading north or south? I'm currently stuck in York at work .......... Church Fenton or Elvington would be ideal lol

Captian Hodgkinson wrote:Any info would be much appreciated
Is it heading north or south? I'm currently stuck in York at work .......... Church Fenton or Elvington would be ideal lol

the info i have is it would be landing at scampton at 3pm not sure if local or zulu time
if it doesnt dont shoot the messenger!! but if it does some credit from someone would be nice for a change! the vulcan is the missing link so to speak at scampton 617 sqn over the past few days
regards
baz

Much appreciated ......... what ever the outcome

Thanks again

Captian Hodgkinson wrote:Much appreciated ......... what ever the outcome

Thanks again

your welcome i'll keep my ears open as only live ten mins from base

Why would they land there, given that this would be just a test flight and there may be niggles than need sorting?

If it landed at Scampton they'd also need an engineering team in place to meet it. It just doesn't seem to make any sense.

Twitter now saying earliest take-off time now 15.00

Hurn wrote:Why would they land there, given that this would be just a test flight and there may be niggles than need sorting?

If it landed at Scampton they'd also need an engineering team in place to meet it. It just doesn't seem to make any sense.

Twitter now saying earliest take-off time now 15.00

thats the info i was given by a vip thurs night as two cars were met at the rear crash gate near the a15 up the back lane and let onto base thought it rather odd going in that way but they did
for some reason????

Hurn wrote:Why would they land there, given that this would be just a test flight and there may be niggles than need sorting?

If it landed at Scampton they'd also need an engineering team in place to meet it. It just doesn't seem to make any sense.

Twitter now saying earliest take-off time now 15.00

just been up there not sure on crash cat but two fire engines people in tower and bird wagon been up and down main run way twice,so we shall see

Crew in

Twitter says they may do a hot crew change later, which would seem to indicate they wont be landing at Scampton.

Ah poo, wished I'd headed over now

Taxiing now thanks to Tiger01