(Text-only) Vulcan Crew Chiefs

Vulcan Crew Chiefs. A little above the normal ground crew but not aircrew. Signed for the aircraft at the start of each shift and took over the engineering responsibility for the entire aircraft and tradesmen. Flew with the aircraft when it was to land away from base. Some trips could be easy and some quite difficult. At times, a lot of hard work was needed to get the aircraft back to base. A lot of the success was just knowing where to kick the "damn thing."

Most crew chiefs would say that they enjoyed their tour and I think they would do it all over again if they had the chance.

I’m sure we were all extremely saddened to read the message in the guestbook from Nicky about the passing of her Dad. Our sincere condolences to Nicky and the rest of Bob’s family.

I noticed that she was unable to get access to Bob’ phone and e-mails and it would seem there was no additional administrator for the VCCR website.

I spoke to Geoff Ochs to discuss the problem and did some research and got in touch with the company that own the platform. I dealt with a chap called Andrew Ellam who with Nicky’s assistance sent the site log in details to me. He wanted someone to take over the maintenance of the site and following another call to Geoff, who offered to help, I agreed so to do on a temporary basis. The site subscription is not due until July 2026.

Currently I do not have access to a VCCR e-mail list so am unable to communicate directly with members. If members send me their e-mail details I will generate one derekparks87@hotmail.co.uk

There was some talk at the last dinner that it may well be the last due to falling attendance. Your views can be sent to me and a decision made as to whether another reunion is viable. If the general consensus is positive, then a volunteer will be required to organise a venue as unfortunately I live in Surrey and would be unable to travel to the Midlands to look for new venues. If anyone would like to take over the maintenance of the site permanently, please get in touch.

Derek Parks

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