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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Entwood on 19 July 2015, 20:53:17
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Watch and enjoy .. the like will not be seen again ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_57a1P4ulug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDd9gFhW7I
Thank you 558 .. you've been amazing
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Fantastic :y
Hoping to see, and hear her, at the Rhyl airshow later this year before she finally hangs up her flying boot :'(
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Was at Riat on Saturday with the lad, very very good show, best for many years and the flypast with the arrows was very good.
Amazing to see so many war birds in the sky to
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That display smacks of "fick the fatigue life" :D :D
Good on them I say :y :y
I took some pickys of Avro's finest and a few other things at Waddington a few years back.
I'll dig them out later when I finish work and stick them on here for you lot to enjoy :y :y
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Exellent footage Entwood :y the sound of those engines a very graceful bird it will be a very sad day when she finally lands for the very last time :'(
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Recently found out that the Saturday display - the one that features in the films I linked to (and please don't think I took them .. way more professional than anything I could do !) - broke some of the "rules" of the display and the pilot got the equivalent of a "yellow card" ....
I still think it was brilliant :y :y :y
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Must be like driving a car capable of 200 mph and not going above 70, I noticed in the display he came very close to doing a roll a couple of times which apparently is a no no.....
It will be a shame to see her grounded, but recall reading somewhere that a lot of other charity lead machines have really been struggling to keep going, so there may be a benefit at the end......
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This link was posted on another forum .. I've lifted it for your benefit ... XV558 with the Reds .. from an unusual perspective ..... gopro camera from inside for a lot of the shots ... enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3IYzrvD_QNs
I love the shot at about 2:30 ... shadows on the ground .. !!
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Great sounds and sights , love the first video link :y
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Its a fantastic aircraft to watch, you spend all day watching loud fast jets and then she takes off, if you close your eyes you would think its still fast jets!
I have some footage but not up to the standard of above, just very pleased that 'the lad' got to experience one flying.
The replacements for your old steed look impressive to Nigel, in fact 'bonkers' was a word used :y
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Looks a very similar cockpit view to an aerotow launch.. with 9 tug aircraft, and going a bit quicker. ;)
This link was posted on another forum .. I've lifted it for your benefit ... XV558 with the Reds .. from an unusual perspective ..... gopro camera from inside for a lot of the shots ... enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3IYzrvD_QNs
I love the shot at about 2:30 ... shadows on the ground .. !!
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Back when I was a cadet I managed to blag a tour of the XH558 and to sit in the pilot's seat. This was the year it was first grounded. I remember getting asked if I had seen the film Thunderball and if I could spot the deliberate mistake in it. ;D
I am pretty sure that it was also my first Airfix :y
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I met it in the air that year - early 90's ar a guess. Got a wing waggle out of her too. 8)
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I still recall with schadenfreude the following incident in the early 70's relating to a Vulcan. I was at Waddington with a Nimrod and also with most, if not all, other RAF A/C types, for an air display for the Imperial Defence College, guests at which were high ranking officers from - it seemed - all the world's armed forces. At some point before the show all the display crews were gathered in a briefing room, probably with about 100 crew members altogether. A junior officer came in and shouted "Is the Vulcan Captain here?" Cue a tall suave Sqn Ldr, who tried not to swagger as he left the room. Two minutes later he came back in, less the swagger, and to his 5 man crew, including the crew chief, said: " I'm sorry chaps, the station commander wants us to clean the aircraft!"
The sight of the six of them trying to polish the football field sized underwing area of the Vulcan with Wadpol will remain with me forever. ;D ;D ;D :y
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;D ;D ;D
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A couple of other amusing incidents occurred during said Air Defence College visit.The Group Captain station commander referred to earlier, clearly trying to impress the exalted top RAF brass during their visit, inspected all the aircraft visiting to ensure that they were all looking spick and span. Visiting our Nimrod, which was parked with the bomb doors open, he accosted the crew chief, and, pointing to the long streaks of oil disfiguring the bomb bay doors, said: "I hope you're going to clean that off Chief!" the reply, in an extremely dour Scots accent, was: "Maybe we will, and maybe we won't...........Sirrrr." Exit baffled Staish.
Next he came across the parked Hercules, and - Entwood will probably correct me here - the props on the Herc had some painted rings round each blade, one of which IIRC was yellow. The paints used for this sort of job were very specialised, and designed for this purpose. Some of these coloured rings had, unsurprisingly, small portions of paint missing. Not looking very smart, thinks Staish, and the Herc crew being unavailable (code for pissed in the mess) he orders some - completely unqualified - ground crew to find some matching paint and smarten up these unattractive props. As the lucky airmen are standing back admiring their handiwork, cans of Dulux in hand, the Flight Engineer arrives. " Who the........told you to do this?" says he. "This aircraft is now grounded due to the use of improper materials, which could cause equipment failure." So now no Herc for the air display!
I was told later that Station Commander was removed from post shortly thereafter!
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Can't wait to see her at our airshow in Clacton in August, I will stand with tears in my eyes watching her in awe. Dad never tired of telling us how he stood guard over her during his National Service days when she had a 24-hour stopover in Germany. He wore his Vulcan to the Skies cap with great pride. Unfortunately he is now in a nursing home in the last stage of Alzheimers/Dementia otherwise he would be beside me.
Lin
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Absolutely majestic ;D ;D