Vulcan bomber

[mick]

Been up in the dales today and a Vulcan bomber did a nice low fly by

[willk]

Surely you mean "The" Vulcan Bomber?

[mick]

Originally Posted by willk

Surely you mean "The" Vulcan Bomber?

Yes awesome site and if he had looked closer he might have thought he was in afghanistan

[kerny]

Originally Posted by mick

Yes awesome site and if he had looked closer he might have thought he was in afghanistan

I know what you mean

[Festinghouse]

i was on a roof in clitheroe today as it flew along the valley right in front of us after being at southport airshow. awesome plane, though scary to think what it was built to do!

[Bigmuz7]

I'd love to have seen that ... I was surprised at how big they were when I was under one at Duxford IIRC

[mick]

Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

I'd love to have seen that ... I was surprised at how big they were when I was under one at Duxford IIRC

I was suprised how small the cockpit was when I went in 1 it's all bomb bay and wings

[jezza2011]

and a long climb up to the cockpit. :-)
yep all wings engines and bomb bay. but what a plane.
like the vulcan , concorde has a group of bods who what to get it back in the air. hopefully not as long as it took the Vulcan to get back in the air.

[mick]

I went to this one http://www.xm655.com/

[Rokraider]

Flying over my yard in Dunsfold a couple of weeks back

[CJL]

Originally Posted by Festinghouse

i was on a roof in clitheroe today

WHY??

Chris

[Mr Flibble]

I thought it couldn't get a flying certificate because the airframe had exceeded it's safe limit. Saw it at Leuchars Airshow a few years back it ran down the runway then throttled back. What a noise from the engines. Nice to see one airborne (thankfully not performing the duty it was built for ).

[djtrauma]

my dad was the chief bomb loader on ascension island for operation black buck. the vulcans used to fly over my house nr lincoln every day. and we could hear them taking off from waddington 5 miles away!awesome machine

[Festinghouse]

Originally Posted by CJL

WHY??

Chris

because my boat is out of action at the moment so decided to make some money to pay for it!

[CJL]

Originally Posted by Festinghouse

because my boat is out of action at the moment so decided to make some money to pay for it!

Well if your a roofer that makes sense!!! Otherwise its a bit random!

Chris

[uncle al]

a vulcan used to do a touch and go at the American base at (when it was an airbase) at R.A.F. Upper Heyford , that was to keep it officialy and R.A.F. base. When the brit goverment decided to scrap the Vulan fleet the Americans wanted to buy them our goverment wouldnt sell them they just scrapped them instead.The concord did a touch and go there one Saturday afternoon when I was working, they all complained about the noise I just told then to "shut up its a British noise"

[Black]

Saw The Vulcan at CarFest North yesterday - completely stunning display.

As my 5 year old daughter said "daddy I can feel that plane in my tummy"

20,000 people applauded at the end of the display

[BogMonster]

Only seen one at air shows as I wasn't here when Black Buck came over but it's the sound of freedom to us and I love the old tin triangle, it's only a shame they weren't allowed to turn right half way down and finish the job. An empty Vulcan doing an unrestricted climb from take off is a pretty impressive sight, only fighters are supposed to do that!

[uncle al]

as I said earlier when the Vulcan did its obligatory touch and go even the American service people applauded with us brits.

[HughN]

I seem to recall Vulcans doing quite well in Red Flag exercises against/with the Americans.

For lots of reasons, we couldn't build anything similar now.