As XH558’s 50th anniversary year approached, funding was an issue once more. During 2009, the Vulcan had flown for so...
27 January 2023
The Vulcan was designed as a ‘safe life’ aircraft, with a well-defined limit on how long it can carry on flying. One ...
22 December 2022
The race was on again to prepare XH558 for the 2009 airshow season. A host of servicing requirements awaited the atte...
25 November 2022
With funds once again depleted XH558 had to sit patiently in her hangar after her all too brief taste of freedom. It ...
28 October 2022
Thursday 18th October 2007 dawned, a perfect day for flying, and destined to be an unforgettable one. Anticipation wa...
28 September 2022
With funds now in place to take XH558 to first flight the team threw themselves back into the final stages of rectifi...
26 August 2022
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
23 June 2022
On 6 February 1952, while in Kenya with her husband Prince Phillip, Princess Elizabeth was given news of the death of...
25 February 2022
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021
William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...
29 October 2021