There's a very real possibility that the only remaining airworthy example of this British engineering icon may well be grounded.
I'm not asking for money... I'm asking that if you plan on buying anything online... could you consider doing so via Vulcan To The Sky's official fundraising partner's site?
http://www.buy.at/vulcantothesky
For instance... if you were going to buy a copy of Left 4 Dead... use the buy.at search facility at the top. You'll still end up clicking a link that will take you to game, or play.com, but you'll be donating a small percentage to save XH558. You will not pay more to make up this percentage, the partners donate the difference.
Whilst you're about it, we are trying for a world record attempt for the world's largest amount of signatures on a birthday card for XH558... you can sign it here.
[url]www.vulcantothesky.org[/url]
I'm not asking for money... I'm asking that if you plan on buying anything online... could you consider doing so via Vulcan To The Sky's official fundraising partner's site?
http://www.buy.at/vulcantothesky
For instance... if you were going to buy a copy of Left 4 Dead... use the buy.at search facility at the top. You'll still end up clicking a link that will take you to game, or play.com, but you'll be donating a small percentage to save XH558. You will not pay more to make up this percentage, the partners donate the difference.
Whilst you're about it, we are trying for a world record attempt for the world's largest amount of signatures on a birthday card for XH558... you can sign it here.
[url]www.vulcantothesky.org[/url]
Please take the time to sign the card.
A few Vulcan facts:
- Each Vulcan contains 430,000 bolts, nuts and rivets.
- Each Vulcan was constructed from over 100,000 different components.
- The Vulcan was a fully electric aircraft. A fore-runner of the modern fly-by-wire jets used by the RAF today.
- The Vulcan can weigh up to 100 tonnes fully loaded.
- Each Vulcan consists of 2.5 miles of rolled sections.
- It has 9,500 feet of tubing.
- 14 miles of electrical cable.
- Contains enough sheet metal to cover 1.5 football pitches.
- The Vulcan gulped 25 tonnes of air per minute through her intakes.
- Each Vulcan has up to sixteen fuel tanks
- A Vulcan could carry enough fuel to power a Ford Escort motor car for 35 years at 10,000 miles a year.
- The 4 Olympus jets produce as much power as 18 railway engines. They were capable of delivering 80,000lbs of thrust.
- Vulcans could outmanoeuvre F-15s in high altitude mock dogfights.
- If necessary the Vulcan could be started in 27 seconds, and be airborne within 2 minutes of a squadron scramble.
- The record altitude flown by a Vulcan was 64,000ft.
I still find it incredible that this plane started life in 1947, designed by men in tweed jackets, smoking pipes. And completely hand built in same way they did Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancasters. Brilliant.
