Vulcan Bomber

[GrumpyTwig]

I know there are a few people into aeronautical things on here, happened to catch it landing at Robin Hood.

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[nick197]

Awesome pics mate

 

[Foxspeed]

i didnt think any were still flying!

did you see the programme about them - britains 1950s nuclear bombers

vulcan
victor
vicount i think

still a bit tame compared to the yanks valkarye...

 

[GrumpyTwig]

It's the last one still flying, used to be based at bruntingthorpe but now moved to Finningley as it's one of the few runways suitable for it.

 

[richandgem]

Love these things, the noise is just emmense.
Bruntingthorpe is just down the road from us, I was on my way to pick up some fuel the other month and it was coming into land. It must have only been about 200 feet bove me

 

[EmmieLou]

Oh wow!

I love aeroplanes, they really are amazing feats of engineering - especially some of the earlier examples such as these! Would love to get to an air show and see one of these in action

 

[ben_r1]

They have one at Southend airport that a charity is trying to restore into flying condition too, but 20 years on and they've made little progress.

 

[Rick197]

Had this thing at RNAS yeovilton for the air day a couple weekends back, the noise is just immense compared to everything else we had there on the day!

 

[Raptor6767]

Cool...

 

[Adrian]

get yourselves to bruntingthorpe for the cold war jets day in August, this arrives the day before and departs on the day

 

[nick197]

i didnt think any were still flying!

did you see the programme about them - britains 1950s nuclear bombers

vulcan
victor
vicount i think

still a bit tame compared to the yanks valkarye...

Valiant mate. Atleast ours got operational unlike the yanks valkarye lol although i'de of loved to see the valkarye fly. I think when this vulcan was still operational it was based at finningly for a while.

 

[GrumpyTwig]

Correct! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan_XH558 was there some 8 years, bit before my time though

 

[Foxspeed]

Valiant mate. Atleast ours got operational unlike the yanks valkarye lol although i'de of loved to see the valkarye fly. I think when this vulcan was still operational it was based at finningly for a while.

yeh thats the one - i always seem to forget its name

as for the valkarye.....what a piece of engineering that was :book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie

 

[nick197]

It was Hell of a piece of kit thats for sure