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 Post subject: Porsche Day at Headcorn
PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:49 pm 
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Organised a Porsche outing to Headcorn today, a small grass strip SE of Maidstone. The main reason to go was a display by the Vulcan, some of the other aircraft were pretty impressive as well.
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 Post subject: Re: Porsche Day at Headcorn
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Great stuff. Looks like it was a good day. Cant beat a bit of classic warbird action!

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 Post subject: Re: Porsche Day at Headcorn
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The Vulcan was awesome, shame it's retiring after this season.

Thanks for organising :)

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Sean Smallman wrote:
The Vulcan was awesome, shame it's retiring after this season.



It's funny that they can't keep it flying, when so many older planes still fly. Perhaps it is just so much more complex and expensive to maintain?
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 Post subject: Re: Porsche Day at Headcorn
PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:30 pm 
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Yes a great shame, but it's now flown 10% more hours than any other Vulcan so getting into unknown territory. The big problem is the engines as they are down to last ones with no spares. The 3 companies providing tech support for the Vulcan have said they can't do so any longer given this, so CAA approval will lapse. We're lucky to still see it fly now as a few years ago the wing needed rebuilding, and it took some ingenuity as original jigs unavailable

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