Sorry I’ve not been doing much in the way of tweets, but her is one from today. General maintenance been carried out, tire check done and inflated where required and chasing an electrical issue which needs a bit more investigation.

Today’s work.... running a communication cable into the bomb bay to aid testing of the bomb bay tanks. A tad warm to be working inside a big metal tube :)

We are now up too 500 followers, welcome to our newcomers and thank you all for your continued support from all of us on the XL231 team.

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Big thank you to all of you who attended Thunder Day today, sorry haven’t posted any pics ect but been a tad busy. Hope you all had a great day.

In case you haven’t read this great article from Airfix about the museums latest Thunder Day then check it out.

Workbench has all the details behind a recent event which saw us able to mark the release of a spectacular new kit under the shadow of the real thing! ow.ly/Zks230lP16j

For those of you that have read the latest Airfix workbench here is a pic of the new Victor kit with our very own lady on the box. This kit was onboard the aircraft for the run and is signed by the team, and you could win it. See the Airfix tweet that we retweeted.

Our lady today with stormy skies around as we carried out some maintenance

The things you have to remove to get to one small amplifier!

Rain has stopped play

November 25th 2018 is the 25th anniversary of XL231’s arrival at Elvington. Want to come and celebrate with us then check out Yorkshire Air Museum website for details. Hopefully we will see you all on the day.

25 years ago today Victor XL231 arrived at Elvington from RAF Marham. Today to celebrate we had an engine run. She as healthy as ever.

Happy Christmas to all of our followers from all of us on the Victor team. Hopefully we will see all of you in 2019

Nice winter sunshine today, makes a change from working in the cold and dark

Another one of the essential jobs, checking and where needed inflate the tyres

Another wonderful winters day.

One of today’s jobs, changing out a faulty power unit.

Looking for something to do this weekend ? Then why not come along to Yorkshire Air Museum on Sunday for Thunder Day. All museums live aircraft will be running including ourselves. Come along and feel the noise.

Thank you to all of you who came along to Yorkshire Air Museum today for Thunder day, hope you enjoyed the day.