Just where is that Dash 10 (new Black Buck Vulcan)

[mouse808]

Noooo they've not made that mistake have they???

 

[mouse808]

Oh my

[Planebuilder62]

Oops Airfix

[71chally]

Uh oh, the classic very deep pylon!

[Lord Riot]

Didn’t the original Airfix Vulcan have two correct pylons included? If anyone has that old kit maybe you could use them?

[Antti_K]

And no Brazilian flag for XM597... The sole Shrike seems to be there at least.

 

Cheers,

Antti

[mouse808]

I've built the original kit (which is the only reason I knew about this error) From looking at this photo I was lead to believe even the original didn't have the correct pylon.



This was my stab at it

[Selwyn]

Ahh the famous pod on a trolley next to the undercarriage door shot! What pains me is that they even got the dimensions of the "door pylon" wrong if you compare it to the actual undercarriage  door!

[tempestfan]

The noise upon u/c retraction surely would have been something. But the the ALQ probably only fell a way, as there was no way of mounting it other than superglue.

[71chally]

2 hours ago, mouse808 said:

I would say for a 1983 kit that is as near as damit meant to be the right pylon, it perhaps doesn't quite have the right clearance from the wing?

Or was there another version again?

 

Amazing that Airfix kinda got that right 40 years ago, and not now.

[Hook]

51 minutes ago, 71chally said:

Amazing that Airfix kinda got that right 40 years ago, and not now.

Shades of the 1/72nd Harrier GR.3 fin cap. Correct in the 1982 kit, wrong in the 2013 one!

 

Cheers,

 

Andre

[tempestfan]

22 minutes ago, Hook said:

Shades of the 1/72nd Harrier GR.3 fin cap. Correct in the 1982 kit, wrong in the 2013 one!

 

Cheers,

 

Andre

"New kits are invariably more accurate than older ones".

🙂

[mouse808]

1 hour ago, 71chally said:

I would say for a 1983 kit that is as near as damit meant to be the right pylon, it perhaps doesn't quite have the right clearance from the wing?

Or was there another version again?

 

Amazing that Airfix kinda got that right 40 years ago, and not now.

Almost, I followed this post, which better explained the issue issue with the pylon

 

[Giorgio N]

1 hour ago, Hook said:

Shades of the 1/72nd Harrier GR.3 fin cap. Correct in the 1982 kit, wrong in the 2013 one!

 

Cheers,

 

Andre

 

The fin cap however was the only thing that the 1982 kit got right 😂

[tempestfan]

6 hours ago, mouse808 said:

I've built the original kit (which is the only reason I knew about this error) From looking at this photo I was lead to believe even the original didn't have the correct pylon.


 

I wonder if this may be one of the pylons supplied in the legacy kit - possibly the taller version, looking at its rear - without fairing panels?

36 minutes ago, Giorgio N said:

 

The fin cap however was the only thing that the 1982 kit got right 😂

You tend to be cruel sometimes...

[robonth]

Hi, isn't it a case of the people having designed the 1982 kit having retired and the new ones reinventing the proverbial wheel again? 😀

[Lord Riot]

Looking at that photo of the real ‘597 it appears to have some protrusions on the nose in front of the cockpit, which I don’t see on the built model example for the new kit. 

[stever219]

Psssssssssttt: anyone wanna buy a couple o’ pylons off a 1983 Airfix Vulcan?  £20 a pair, low hours, more than one careful owner.....

[Hook]

Just now, stever219 said:

more than one careful owner.....

A little old lady who flew to South America every Sunday? 

 

Cheers,

 

Andre 

[stever219]

5 minutes ago, Hook said:

A little old lady who flew to South America every Sunday? 

 

Cheers,

 

Andre 

 I couldn’t possibly comment.😄😄

[71chally]

31 minutes ago, Lord Riot said:

Looking at that photo of the real ‘597 it appears to have some protrusions on the nose in front of the cockpit, which I don’t see on the built model example for the new kit. 

They were fuel dispersal vanes added to some (Black Buck only) Vulcans? 

The probes hadn't been used for a long time so there was a rapid search to find and refit them, and it doesn't sound like they were in best order, so the vanes helped dispersed.any leaked fuel from the probe away from the windscreens during air to air refuelling.

 

I have heard it told from here at St Athan that some crucial components were being used as ash trays in crew rooms, before having to be returned to service! 

[sloegin57]

Did the Falklands Vulcans not use the same pylons that the SR.2's used for the Air Sampling pods ?.

 

DR

[Jabba]

1 hour ago, 71chally said:

I have heard it told from here at St Athan that some crucial components were being used as ash trays in crew rooms, before having to be returned to service! 

 

It is also mentioned in the book Vulcan 607 that various vital piece were found in some strange places and yes one was a crewroom where it was being used as an ashtray.

[71chally]

2 hours ago, sloegin57 said:

Did the Falklands Vulcans not use the same pylons that the SR.2's used for the Air Sampling pods ?

No, the sampler pods were mounted on 'standard' looking pylons, almost like off a Hunter or Sea Vixen.

[Whitewolf]

On 13/09/2023 at 17:13, Planebuilder62 said:

Oops Airfix

That's a very big OOPs....