Recovering Vulcan XM655 At Wellesbourne Airfield
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Great to see the extended team, volunteers, recovery team, farmers and locals turning out to support the stricken Vulcan XM655.
I am not affiliated in any way to the above - but if you would like to make a donation directly to their team you can find their website at xm655.com
I just find historical British Engineering fascinating.
Would love to see this "car" taxing again - please support the volunteers who help maintain this Vulcan.
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Holy smoke! That was close⚠️😲
Who put that road there anyway? 🤔😳😁
Well done to all involved.
Hope the big bird howls again soon . 👍😎😁
Ideally in the skies above Ukraine , along with the other two , and helps to chase the Russians back home
This one has Olympus 300 series engines, which don't howl. Only the 200 series did that, as fitted on XH558 and XL426 the other two live Vulcans.
When you look at today's aircraft, this beauty is right up there. It looks very modern. Awesome work all.
If you have ever seen Engineering Britain's Superweapons they had a 1 hour exploration of the V bombers. All the pilots were in awe of it - 1950s! As you say it still has a classic British design today.
Everyone loves the Vulcan
Great aircraft, must be kept active
Even after retirement the mighty Vulcan makes an impression 👍😍
I kind of thing, like Guinea Pigs, there should be a law against keeping them in isolation. I am more than a little bit Asperger's - but I see a Guinea pigs mouth under the front fuselage.
Well done everyone and thank you Green Flag
Yeah - agreed. I was SO surprised no one was taking tea break. Super effort by all.
So reminds me of looking down on 558 from Beachy Head as the beautiful, but with that threatening bird song (HOWL!) rounding the Head an d circuiting the Lighthouse, sadly never to be seen in full flight here again! R.I.P.
Vulcan! May you Taxi on for ever!!
Superb work. Well done for everyone involved, and thank you for what you do.
Awesome work by all! Glad it was rescued
what a machine that is
Great teamwork
Absolutely fantastic well done beautiful aircraft and to the volunteers
Commendation to all involved 👍😍
As good as new, just start and do another run 💪🏽
She's a strong bird, needs looking after 👍🥰
do that to a F-35, it would be recovered in pieces.
A very naughty Vulcan.
Go back to the hanger and write out 'I must not try running away' until your wings ache and ache.
To be fair the "car" wanted to turn into a plane. Apparently it isnt a plane, because it doesnt have a certificate to fly. But it wanted to.
@@stephenhookings1985
All the V bombers huddled together as 607 spun his tale about derring-do south of the Atlantic Convergence.
''The plasma was sparking off my wingtips but through the storm I could just make out the drogue. it was tough going but in the end fuel flowed, I was able to drop my bombs and the runway was denied to fast jets.''
''Pah'' interupted 655. ''Fast jets, what do they know? They cost £35 million and only carry some guns.''
Nonetheless 655 wished he could go flying again even though his pilot told him he wasn't new enough.
One day a different pilot arrived to do some training. 655 complained that he didn't need training as he knew all about flying but his ground crew explained that the pilot was training so that he could fly 558. 655 felt very proud of himself and when 558 flew over boasted to all the other aeroplanes that he'd soon be up there with him.
''Don't be silly'' exclaimed Percival Proctor. ''They won't let you fly. You're too complicated. You should be simple like me. I take people up every weekend.''
Another time a young pilot took the controls and 655 hoped he'd come to go flying. The ground crew explained that the pilot was a famous motorcyclist. 655 was so annoyed when Percival started making vroom-vroom noises.
After that things were really quiet, someone said the pilots were ill but one day the ground crew arrived and started getting ready for fast taxi runs.
''We're checking your hydraulics so that you don't go too fast and can stop before the end of the runway.''
A thought suddenly entered 655's avionics. 'If I went too fast I'd not be able to stop and my pilot would have to take off'. With a squeeze and a grunt and a hiss and a push 655 managed to burst a little gasget so as not to show a leak.
The next morning he was all ready on the flight line, four Avons burning. 'Any photographers?' He thought. 'I'll make the cover of Fly Past'. He looked into the distance beyond the road. 'Here I go', he thought. 'Lovely day for it'.
With a howl he shot off down the runway and felt his air speed indicator leaking. Eyeing the traffic on the B4086 655 thought that his pilot was about to pull back on the stick but instead he felt the emergency brakes come on and with that he shot off the end of the runway and ended up in the mud in front of the hedge.
''Oh no'', said 655, ''I'm not going flying and I'm all covered in mud.''
The rest of the day was just terrible. Some photographers arrived but they were from The Sun. And worse still some farmers pulled him out. With tractors. Percival spent the whole night making tractor noises and saying ''Oh Ahh''!
The next morning the Air Vice Marshall arrived and told him off. ''Not only have you damaged an engine but now all the other aeroplanes might not be allowed to do fast taxi runs''. 655 felt like a very naughty Vulcan.
'Oh well' he thought, 'Im never going flying again'. And then he heard some of the ground crew talking. Apparently a man in Russia had gone to war and 655 wondered whether he might be needed again one day after all.
@@K2edg agreed. At one point in my career I was involved in aircrash investigation. Got to meet a lot of experts and hear their stories (my expertise was in explosives so you can guess the sort of events I attended).
There are a lot of old design planes still flying. It doesn't just come down to cost but that can have a big bearing on sign off. I guess it is like having a well preserved classic car v one that rusted in a field.
The B52s, for example, have a reasonable Military future. 747s still fly. But as you explained - kit that got scrapped to extinction normally ends up as a static display - and that is if it is lucky! Doesn't stop me wanting to see Concorde or a Vulcan fly again :-)
@@stephenhookings1985 add a VC-10 and a Comet to that list ! It's a sin that the taxiable VC-10 at bruntingthorpe was scrapped earlier this year .
Anyone else whistling the theme to the Great Escape when they were digging.. She did look like she had her "tail between her legs" after a telling off when being towed back. Naughty Vulcy
A Plane that is so wonderful In the Sky Is like a beached Whale on the ground.
Not sure I follow your metaphor - no one likes to see a whale stranded (unless that is your point).
Talking of stranded whales ... the person whose role I took over in EOD had to detonate a (dead) whale off Yantlet Creek. An ex colleague of mine was chosen as the Jonah to put the charges into the rotting carcass. Apparently it is a smell you can't unsmell.
Thing was the tide was coming in and the body was starting to float down The Thames. So they had to dem it off in a hurry.
Have fun whatever you do.
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Back on solid ground, fantastic
Luckily it was fair weather.
Thanks for sharing 👍😊✌️
Thanks for watching.
Thank you for sharing this video with us
Beautiful.
Great video ....Very good quality..!!
On Friday 16 September 2022, XM655 suffered a runway excursion at Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield when performing a ground run as practice for the following Sunday's public show. This was due to a faulty air speed indicator, which resulted in the aircraft remaining at full power for approximately 2 seconds longer than intended. This resulted in excessive speed and less distance in which to stop, and the aircraft passed beyond the end of the runway - stopping just before the airfield perimeter in mud which borders the B4086. The air speed indicator had been tested and found satisfactory six days before the incident, which had started to work normally before the end of the run. The aircraft's brakes worked properly, but were unable to bring the aircraft to a stop with the reduced distance available.(from Wikipedia)
Defo worth seeing. Flying defo. But strange how such a formidable aircraft gets stuck. No matter how serious they become in the end the simplistic things stops them.
Conversely, the Black Buck run showed how determined we were to deny the runway at Port Stanley Airport - enough to stop the fast jets taking off - there again repairable (which hopefully this Vulcan is too)
@@stephenhookings1985 I suspect nowadays the job would just be done by a few cruise missiles launched from a ship at a safe distance ; or missiles launched from a sub .
Thank you so much for posting this, hopefully funds will appear and She can be returned to the air eventually.
There is no chance at all of this particular aircraft ever returning to the air. It isn't in a good enough condition even if everything else where in place (which it isn't).
I think that counts as Op Black Buck 8. Missed the runway but did some major remodelling of the surrounding areas.
Brilliant comments 👏
I see what you did there :-)
Aah!....She's FINE! Which reminds me, I must go and see the one at Carlisle Airfield. Again.
Nice. Post any details here please. I keep meaning to visit Hadrian's Wall and I didn't know there was another Vulcan up there!
Thanks for the heads up.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Aviation_Museum
So they have the Lightning too - excellent work. Must plan a trip via this. Thanks for sharing.
It would be great to see this Vulcan flying again, would that be possible in the future ? seems such a shame that something so beautiful as this just sits there, they are awesome when in the air and would donate towards getting this bird flying again ❤
The trust that owns the plane has a website. Best to ask them. I saw one at Farnborough maybe 7 years ago. The howl over McDonald's was enough for some people to drop their French fries and it curdled my chocolate milk shake :-)
From what little I understand the big issue would be if it was fully crewed. The pilots can eject but the rest of the crew get to climb down ladder to bail out. I have no idea if the navigation and Bombers are required to crew a Vulcan in peacetime- kind of hope not.
Another plane I would love to see is the Lightning. 2 rockets strapped to a fuselage! Probably wouldn't fly in E10.
They will never fly again as they don't have CAA clearance. Plus, the fact that Rolls Royce (who maintain the engines) and BAe systems no longer want anything to do with it, and there is no one to service the aircraft as the technology is so old now, there aren't the people around anymore with the relevant skills.
@@Matt-yq4zr great shame was talking to an aerospace engineer recently on this subject, he says all the people with the skills to keep them airworthy are retired or passed away,
A good reason to take off and be airborne at the end of the runway!
@@monteceitomoocher That's a shame, but that sums up our country for the past 40 years or more, we have lost the art in many cases of training our young people how to be engineers, plumbers, Upholsterers, mechanics etc etc these skills have been discouraged from our schools where this enthusiasm begins, now it's all pushing buttons to make a living rather than taking on a job that makes them dirty, a lack of foresight has cost us dear, but we are where we are which is a shame.
XM655 finally dropped a bomb with low yield and poundage if you see the ruts lol
I still think it should be taken down the road to Silverstone Racing circuit that way more people can see it when they go to the track
Agreed, but with a caveat. My wife is the F1 super fan in the family. Have you seen the prices? So if there was a cheaper event (ie not F1 prices) then I agree. Plenty of long straights there.
Well done everyone
Thanks for this video
Enjoyed this video, shame about the mishap as a display takes in a good bit of cash to keep the bird maintained. As well as this one, XH558 is worth a look. I have been fortunate enough to see it in flight and at a ground run close up. Magnificent beast of a plane. They all need preserving!
Agreed.
I was at 12:20 carrying the chocks over to the rear gear🙂
How was you able to do that?
@@suckurmarj2695 through cadets they do these Vulcan volunteering events where if you do it once then you can go every Saturday without cadets
Great job by all of you. We came back today from Berkshire to see Charcote then we took the 0.9m to see your Vulcan. It was tucked up in bed tonight. I was most amazed that there were very few tea breaks! My Mrs commented the soil at end of runway is all ploughed like it never happened. Once again cracking job.
Great work. I wonder if anyone took a time-lapse
I will do sped up video from my footage. 4x speed seems to work well. I think the team were quite preoccupied in digging the Vulcan out. But maybe they had a security camera?
That's certainly a bucket list recovery. Wow. Wouldn't mind a ground attack harrier for my garden. 🤔. Better not might try and get it going 🤣. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻 stay safe 🏴
Would be cool. I am more likely to be able to afford a ground attack terrior :-)
@@stephenhookings1985 🤣 I could nearly manage a microlight but I'll stick to the drone for now.😆
@@ianhaggart1438 funnily enough we went back to see the Vulcan tucked up in bed - via Charlecot House (free with your NT card). There were a few microlights flying over. I bet they are fun to fly. Always wondered if they could be built into an ejector seat of a jet. So if you eject over enemy lines you have a chance to get some distance post ejection.
Recovering Vulcan, what ? Had the little darling been ill ? I hope it is all better now, but if not I send to it my get well soon wishes.
I've been on that, In the cockpit.
Hi Stephen Hookings, hope you are well. I work at Reach Plc vid desk (Express, mirror, Daily Star). Could we please use clips from this video with credit to your RUclips account for a news article? Thanks!
Sure - so long as you are positive about the team and their efforts - they are unrelated to me in any form but I enjoyed the comradery and teamwork they displayed.
That was a job well done!! zI wonder, did they drain any fuel out first to make it lighter?
Not sure. Going back to visit National Trust deer park. I was joking with Martin that if the price of fuel goes up then they can sell the fuel back at higher price. Every cloud should have a Vulcan :-)
@@stephenhookings1985 😂😂
They drain fluids before mothballing aircraft. Things like hydraulic fluid are corrosive and fuel can be dangerous for the fuel lines as well as a fire hazard.. There's always going to be small amounts of fuel left in the tanks, this is unavoidable but for the most part the aircraft is dry.
I might have missed it somewhere in the video, but when did it end up on grass and why did it happen?
Friday 16th - the team were rehearsing for show at rhe weekend. The refueling nose was just about in line with the hedge so the Vulcan stayed inside the airfield. My Mrs saw the story so we took a trip out and decided the record the Valiant effort (poor joke!). I also like WW2 Concrete so we took a chance to look at some pillboxes around the area.
You can look up the official website - link on the video or in the description. Better to get official story than my 3rd party observer account. Thanks for watching.
@@stephenhookings1985 it was Valliant effort to rescue the Vulcan and they were the Victors!
@@stephenhookings1985 It wasn't due to actually fly though was it?.
I thought all were permanently grounded, if one is going to fly again I want to see it.
The last one flying I saw was when it did the UK tour when it passed over Gloucester/Cheltenham.
I like the Valiant reference lol another menacing aircraft, I've not seen one flying did they howl like the Vulcan do you know?.
I expect CAA and "Elf an Safety" will be taking a very close look at Fast Taxi runs after this incident and the Victor at Bruntingthorpe. A fast Taxi run is not a simple exercise and small errors can make a huge difference. I suspect that it won't be long before they are banned... Sad, but after Shoreham, risk tolerance is a lot lower.
True - and it definitely depends on how much margin for error there is. But my plea is some leeway is made. It is too easy to take zero tolerance approach.
I had the pleasure of working with a team to blow up a 747 at Bruntingthorpe. And being MoD we let H & S know about it ... after the event. Well it was need to know. And they didn't need to know what we were up to :-)
And regarding Shoreham - what was the final outcome of the investigation? I mean that went to /dev/null compared to the few incidents I was investigating. I guess it was harder if there was no black box. But the Isle of Mull crash, with no black box, was consider pilot error ... what a crock of ... that decision was!
There is a Hunter in someone's garden in Maidenhead - check out Google maps and Ockwells Park - the Manor House. He got by the looks of it a Chieftan too. The house was also featured on some episodes of The Professionals. Classic TV.
That airport doesn't appear to be anywhere near adequate for an airplane like that. What is it doing there?
Currently about 0.0 mph :-)
If you look at their website I believe the Vulcan has been there for some time. Normally the taxi demos just work.
Why do you keep calling it a “car”??
I was just a spectator. But Martin (from the trust) explained it is considered a car. It isn't flight certified. So it is a car. In effect there was a car crash - not an air accident.
Many years ago I was a consultant for certain aircrashes - specifically any where explosives might have been the root cause. The AAIB got called to aircrashes - not to car crashes! That is the specific point I am making - sorry if this wasn't clear.
@@stephenhookings1985 Ah!! I understand. Makes sense!
@@incargeek I wanted to avoid being "that guy" who put another nail in the coffin of beautiful old English engineering. In mynokd career I helped design a lot of gear that demonstrated to much promise - but we rarely take kit past the prototype stage anymore. How our ancestors built such amazing gear in such a short time is simply astounding. Thanks for watching
Who towed it backwards away from the hedge
Same team. They started same day (Friday). I was passing on Saturday (originally going to the Charcote NT but saw the Vulcan and decided to cheer them along).
Did you say in the video there was engine damage?
That's what Martin told us. They have a spare one. But I imagine these are getting rarer.
@@stephenhookings1985 thanks for replying, let’s hope minimal/repairable damage
Were there cost overruns after the runway overrun?. Only big engine Vulcan capable of taxiing. Hope it has a future.
Best to check out official Facebook page - my Mrs and I were passing thru.
It seems something like this happened in the past. My hope is Elf & Safetea sees this as a car accident that was controlled and contained in the airport. They will.be replacing the engine. Not sure how much the recovery cost. We went past again last weekend - field is ploughed and you wouldn't know it happened. They did lose money because event couldn't take place. Check out their FB - I was being a nosey Parker and watching a dedicated team of volunteers recovering a vintage Bomber.
there are three still taxiable
So - when did this happen? Sep 2022???
Yes.
Left the intake FOD covers in place. No wonder it didn't take off.
Having looked at the maps and satellite views , why did they have to do their fast taxi in that direction ? If they'd taxied in the opposite direction there is a field with plenty of run off space , nowhere near a road or anything else .
Could they not just start the engines and put it in reverse gear😂. It’s a joke folks, I worked on Vulcans for 5 years in the 1960’s and 70’s at RAF Scampton as a propulsion specialist (AFittP).
Yeah I heard some else joking "if only it was the Italian Vulcan" ...
My Uncle was at Yeovilton for Navy - he left national service and went to work on Concorde. What a golden age of engineering and design. Thanks for all the previous work you did on this plane, er now car. Must have been fun.
That runway is NO WAY long enough for a fast or even semi fast taxi run and the lack of skid marks on the runway possible/prove that full emergency braking was NOT USED they were very lucky after the point of NO return on the taxi run pilot and co pilot skill were over taken by sheer luck and gravity and soft soil
Would you expect to see "skid marks" ? The maxarets are still in circuit if I remember correctly so if anything there would be dashed lines on the tarmac where the brakes come on and release automatically as the wheels decelerate.
Agree, that runway leaves no room for error and it's a good thing the soft undershoot stopped her before the road.
They are saying the ASI was faulty.......... honestly that sounds like an excuse to me, if the asi was faulty you would expect the run to be identical to all the previous fast taxi's (just the finishing position being further down the runway so to speak) but it wasn't, they should be no where near v1 (point of no return) after the Victor incident...... Compare this run to the incident ruclips.net/video/uAPVMDpRM9w/видео.html
@@125brat Yes i can't see them doing or being aloud to do anymore fast taxi runs or even semi fast runs
@@K2edg Yes i can't see them doing or being aloud to do anymore fast taxi runs or even semi fast runs
@@Rob1972Gem Depends what turns out to be the cause to be honest, there are a number of people praying it was pilot error rather than poor maintenance of the aircraft. Thing is the incident run just looks odd....... guess it will all come out in time.
I don’t get the whole hero worship of it - it’s role was pretty much obsolete before it even got going. Now for futuristic looking beast - see Victor !
Please could someone explain.
I thought this aircraft had been retired
Apparently not. Well not at that time. There seem to be a few about. Appreciate people posting the locations.
My god is the landing gear made of chocolate just pull it back🙈🙈🙈🙈
and the gas pipeline?? don't need the Vulcan 🤣"bombing the pipeline"🤣
... now DONT do it again...