Vulcan Appeal
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The campaign to restore Avro Vulcan XH558 to flight status is a project about which visitors to this site and nearly every airshow in the UK will be very aware.

For some years now, new and ever more vocal appeals have been launched to raise the huge levels of funding required. Unfortunately, set-backs of one kind or another have always thwarted this massively complicated undertaking and it's a sad fact that to this day, the last example of the Vulcan type that can feasibly be returned to flight is lying, propped up and comatosed in a hangar in Leicestershire.

She's in this state, not because she's an old aircraft, not because the skills and willingness to restore her are absent but plain and simple because they can't raise the cash to fund the necessary overhaul.

This page has been created in order to highlight this amazing project to get XH558 back into the air where she belongs. There are a selection of links to articles on this site as well as links to the official websites.


Vulcan XH558 taxi-ing at Bruntingthorpe
Vulcan Taxi-ing
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Vulcan XH558 run at Bruntingthorpe
Vulcan Run
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2009 Pledge appeal - Click to enlarge




LINKS

  Vulcan to the Sky - Official website

  Vulcan 558 Club - Official Club for XH558

  Avro Vulcan XH558 Appeal

  Vulcan - A Call to Arms  

  Vulcans - Alive and well and living in the UK

  Vulcan XH558, Bruntingthorpe Webcams

  Vulcan XH558, First Flight video clips New

Congratulations to all those involved in the project who finally managed to get Vulcan XH558 back into the air again. Vulcan XH558 took off from the Bruntingthorpe airstrip in Leicestershire on 18th October 2007.

Fantastic news that Vulcan XH558 received a Permit to fly and Display authorisation on 3rd July 2008 with a first display at the RAF Waddington Airshow on 5th-6th July 2008.

Click here for an article and photos on the RAF Waddington International Air Show 2008 & Vulcan XH558 first display and celebrations.

Please click on the banner below to continue to support Vulcan XH558.


Click on the poster on the left to read about the 2009 Pledge appeal to keep XH558 flying.



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