got to play with a Vulcan

[thedarkmaster]

Via a story to long and boring to go into, my son and i were part of only 3 people in the local air museum last night and as the other guy had the Vulcan and canberra keys you can see where it went     

[Jschmus]

Very cool!

[hurricanemk1c]

Nice shots of the East Mids Aeropark!

[beowulf]

lucky buggers........ive still not got to EMA yet

ive got a mate that volunteers at Newark Air Museum............i keep meaning on tapping him up so i can go and have a look round the Shackleton

[Weaver]

See you found an aircraft without one of Ron's "Don't Tread on Me" stickers....

Nice one. The young'un's face in that Canberra reminds me of my friend Lisa's face as she sat squashed in the Vulcan cockpit at woodford being told about taking off with an eye-patch on so when you were blinded in that eye you could switch over.....

[sotoolslinger]

Wow  You lucky bugger

[Ed S]

Lucky guy.  How come we don't have a "green with envy" smiley?

Ed

[lancer]

So just how far from the East Midlands airport is the aero park??

[thedarkmaster]

The Aeropark and the Airport share a perimiter fence so your perhaps 150 yds from the runway   

[hurricanemk1c]

Aeropark website states 170m from runway edge.

Newark Air Musuem has a Vulcan that you can get in usually for 50p

[lancer]

The Aeropark and the Airport share a perimiter fence so your perhaps 150 yds from the runway   

The number of ti mes I've been that close to it and gone past it!!!!  I guess that means a special trip is in order sometime later this summer.

[thedarkmaster]

Newark Air Musuem has a Vulcan that you can get in usually for 50p

been a lot of problems with all older aircraft during the last year or so due to the small amount of Radioactive material in some of the older cockpit equipment, many are on longer able to be opened to the public as they are considered radiation risks. You cannot believe it can you, another instance of the nanny state knows best       

[PR19_Kit]

Why don't they take the 'dangerous' instruments out and replace them with dummies?

And how come the great majority of the crews who flew them are still alive? They should have died ages ago if it was that dangerous..... <Sigh>

I wonder how the people who make up these regulations cross the road, perhaps they wait till the small hours and then have an armed escort.....

[thedarkmaster]

Why don't they take the 'dangerous' instruments out and replace them with dummies?

If they did that then (and this bit i kid you not is what they where told ) they become responcable for the correct disposal of the " Radioactive waste ", which is extremely expensive and damm stupid,  you just wouldn't believe the crapness they have been through.

[hurricanemk1c]

So, if the aircraft are 'radio-active', why aren't they glowing in the dark?