BarnsleyBrewer
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: Wish I was there...doyley said:
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Vulcan XH558 over York!!
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TRXnMe
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Sadly, Clacton on Sea is too far for a weekend away, and I can't get more time in August
DaveMack
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What a sight for soar eyes http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/20 ... ow-gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/20 ... ow-gallerybobsbeer
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Looks like its the end of the runway for the last flying Vulcan. A bit sad as they were a beautiful aircraft. Just read this report on the BBC.
Baldbrewer
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A sad day indeed, I remember climbing into the cockpit in 1982 as an air cadet in total awe.
A truly majestic aircraft .
I feel a XH558 brew coming on
A truly majestic aircraft .
I feel a XH558 brew coming on
Jeltz
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Before my time but my dad was a navigator on Vulcans in the 60's, apparently his crew did the longest on nuclear deterrent of any crew, scary times I understand.
He told me that they had been briefed on their targets for if it ever came to it, but there wouldn't be sufficient fuel to get from the drop zone to the landing point if they did go so basically it would have been a one way trip, nobody ever discussed but it as navigator he knew what they needed but they didn't have it. Basically the attitude seemed to be if you were responsible for dropping the bomb you wouldn't want to be around to live with the knowledge of how ever many thousands had been wiped out as a result. He, my mother and sisters, lived off base and at one point he had to have a hand gun there in case they were scrambled and he met opposition from protesters while trying to get into the base.
He's only spoken about it a couple of times and wasn't sensationalising it, he was talking about how frightening that time was and how much more prepared they were to go to war than the public at large realised.
None the less he is very proud of their time on Vulcans, its an aircraft which holds a special place in his heart.
He told me that they had been briefed on their targets for if it ever came to it, but there wouldn't be sufficient fuel to get from the drop zone to the landing point if they did go so basically it would have been a one way trip, nobody ever discussed but it as navigator he knew what they needed but they didn't have it. Basically the attitude seemed to be if you were responsible for dropping the bomb you wouldn't want to be around to live with the knowledge of how ever many thousands had been wiped out as a result. He, my mother and sisters, lived off base and at one point he had to have a hand gun there in case they were scrambled and he met opposition from protesters while trying to get into the base.
He's only spoken about it a couple of times and wasn't sensationalising it, he was talking about how frightening that time was and how much more prepared they were to go to war than the public at large realised.
None the less he is very proud of their time on Vulcans, its an aircraft which holds a special place in his heart.
:thumb: to your Dad Nic
In my youth I lived on the flight path for Finningley. Saw the Vulcan many times overhead. I was awestruck in those days. am still am when I see her.
The news is not good from the Vulcan camp as it looks like her flying days are over.
In my youth I lived on the flight path for Finningley. Saw the Vulcan many times overhead. I was awestruck in those days. am still am when I see her.
The news is not good from the Vulcan camp as it looks like her flying days are over.
TRXnMe
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Finningley was an annual event for us in my childhood and youth. I was at the last air show there as well
Apart from the odd visit by Concorde the Vulcan was THE big 'plane to see, just out doing the Lancaster in my youthful preference, mainly because of the noise it made, a banshee from hell, and an angry one at that :)
Of course it was always second favourite, the Spitfire, any Spitfire being the first aircraft I was going to be looking at.
My dad was an airframe fitter in the RAF in the 60s and early 70s, he mainly worked on Lightning, but knew is way around the Vulcan airframe well enough to point out the interesting bits to the likes of me :)
Apart from the odd visit by Concorde the Vulcan was THE big 'plane to see, just out doing the Lancaster in my youthful preference, mainly because of the noise it made, a banshee from hell, and an angry one at that :)
Of course it was always second favourite, the Spitfire, any Spitfire being the first aircraft I was going to be looking at.
My dad was an airframe fitter in the RAF in the 60s and early 70s, he mainly worked on Lightning, but knew is way around the Vulcan airframe well enough to point out the interesting bits to the likes of me :)
