- Description
- Related Products
- Reviews
This is a donation towards covering cost of the Wing Modification Investigation programme. (Phase 1).
1500 x Wing Modification - Investigation shares are available at £30 each. Total funding required - £45,000
Your kind support will be recognised with a dedicated Wing Modification certificate, while orders of £75 or more, will entitle the customer to a listing on the 2013 season bomb-bay plaque.
Support of £150 or more will not only give you the name, but put you on a waiting list for a FREE copy of our much acclaimed Avro Vulcan 60th Anniversary book (hardback edition) that will come complete with a bookplate signed by the 2013 crew. (The book wil be dispatched after publication in June).
Please make sure you specify the name required on each share certificate, and complete the Bomb-bay Name field if your combined order of shares alone will be £75 or more.
Please note: you order on the understanding that your support is for a commemorative share certificate as receipt of this kind donation and this forms no legal entitlement or part-ownership of any part or implied product.
Thank you for your donation!
See below for a explanation of this work:
The leading edge of the wings need strengthening using a modification developed by Avro in the 1960s and 70s while Vulcans were in still in RAF service. With none of the original jigs or formers surviving, we have called upon the latest 3D scanning and computer aided engineering techniques to “reverse engineer” the components.
The data from this high-precision three-dimensional scanning system will be combined with research into the original wing design, creating a detailed computer model of the critical wing sections.
Following stress analysis, this will be used to plan and cost the complex operation, which requires panels approximately two metres square to be precisely shaped in three dimensions so they fit each wing leading edge ‘like a glove’.
A proposal will then be submitted to our design authority - Marshall Aerospace, before we can consider Phase 2.
