Rewind – Vulcan to the Sky : return of the Vulcan…nearly there by Dr Robert Pleming FRAeS

“There is something special…. about big delta aeroplanes. Somehow Concorde and the Vulcan capture the public imagination like no other jet aircraft.” 14 years after its last flight & with over £7 million spent, Vulcan XH558 roared into the air on 18 October 2007. Five months before the launch and right at the end of the project’s restoration phase, Robert Pleming, Chief Executive of Vulcan to the Sky Trust, gave members of the RAeS Historical Group insights into the technical and non-technical challenges that the project team faced in order to get the British strategic bomber back into the skies. The lecture is followed by a question and answer session in which Vulcan veterans and others find out more about the project. Dr Robert Pleming FRAeS addressed a meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Historical Group on 17 May 2007 and the podcast and film was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS.