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AVRO VULCAN
PICTURES - WINGS

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This page last updated on 20th October 2007

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Well... 'wings' is stretching things a bit here - the best pictures of the Vulcan's wings are in the gallery pages. This page is for closeups of certain areas, noteably the engines.

PORT WING

  1. XM597 gained weapons pylons during the Falklands War; positioned where the Skybolt attachments were going to be, the pylons (used to carry Shrike missiles and ECM pods) are quite hefty affairs.
  2. XM655's port wing underside; engine access doors open as you can see; looking aft.
  3. XH558's port underside airbrake in extended position and opened forward engine access bay.

STARBOARD WING

  1. XM655's starboard engines, looking aft.
  2. The same engines at the business end - shortly after ritual hand-warming on the jetpipes after a thunder run!
  3. XH558's starboard underside airbrake in extended position. As you can see the airbrakes are quite simple affairs. This shot also shows some useful underside detail including the position of the strobe light (one under each wing).
  4. XH558's starboard upper airbrakes viewed from behind. Fairly poor quality picture, but the airbrakes are very simple affairs as you can see; there's no detail lost here.
  5. XH558's starboard intakes. The white areas either side are where some panels have been removed for maintenance; normally the entire intake wall area is smooth as you can see. Kudos to anyone who can manage this smooth appearance with the Airfix kit without resorting to cheating and using some resin inserts or similar!

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