Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York: Repainting the bigggest aircraft

Yorkshire Post

Scaffolding is going up at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York, but not around the site’s historic buildings – it covers one of the museum’s biggest aircraft as it undergoes a repaint.    The Handley Page Victor - XL231 - was built in 1961 as a nuclear bomber before being converted to a tanker, refuelling other aircraft mid-air.

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00:00My name is Gerry Ibbotson. I'm the Marketing and Communications Manager here at the Yorkshire

00:04Air Museum at Elvington and what you can see behind me covered in scaffolding is our Hanley

00:10Page Victor tanker that is being repainted into camouflage colours for the first time in 40 years.

00:16It's had repaints but it's not have this camo colour scheme since the 1980s and the first step

00:23is well how do you paint it you need to cover it in scaffolding so the guys you can see behind me

00:28are from Kafer who are a specialist scaffolding company who are very kindly come in and as you

00:34can see are covering the aircraft in scaffolding so that the the painting firm Bagnalls can come in

00:40later with rollers they're going to roller paint it this entire aircraft so it's a massive project

00:45really exciting it's exciting to see it happening and it'll be equally as exciting to see the results

00:51in about a month or so's time.

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