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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Lizzie_Zoom on 21 May 2013, 18:31:17
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
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Remember so many years ago now,as a boy going to the airshows at R.A.F.Finningly[now Robin Hood airport]just outside Doncaster.The show was always opened by 4 Vulcans doing a "scramble".The noise!The vibration of sound!What an awesome thing to experience.
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
Great news,last I heard she was grounded due the engine "incident" ::)
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blimey i remember them in service oer,and im part of the cold war that was, last boat hms/m revenge ,polaris.
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My folks are from West Wales. Some years ago I was walking on the Cardigan coast at a point where a big hill plunged down to the sea, when suddenly there was this almight roar and a Vulcan appeared at VERY VERY low level over the top of the hill directly towards me.
Crapped myself :-[ but profoundly memorable :y
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Enjoy the experience if you get a chance to see her, because this may well be the last year of flying for XH558.
There is something about the frame work, in the wings I think, which is reaching the end of it's serviceable life. Also the engines are irreplaceable, so if one goes wrong again like last year then that would probably be it......
Great shame!!
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
question is where..now they have pulled the plug on folkestone >:(
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
question is where..now they have pulled the plug on folkestone >:(
Date: Event Location: Sortie profile:
9th June Welshpool Short display
9th June RAF Cosford Display
15th June Hastings and Rye Display
22nd June Manston - Kent On ground - Display
6th July RAF Waddington - Lincs On ground - Display
7th July Raf Waddington - Lincs On ground - Display
13th July RNAS Yeovilton - Somerset On ground - Display
20th July RIAT - Gloucestershire On ground - Display
21st July RIAT - Gloucestershire On ground - Display
3rd or 4th August Carfest North – Oulton Park Display
10th August Newcastle, County Down.N.I. Display
24th August Dunsfold Wings and Wheels Display
24th or 25th August Carfest South – Laverstock Farm Display
25th August Dunsfold Wings and Wheels Display
31st Aug or 1st Sept Rhyl - North Wales Display
These are the advertised places XH558 will be visiting this year :y
Couple in Kent, maybe you could see one of these displays......
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I used to have a picture of the Vulcan and Concorde at my old office on the wall, the best ice breaker in the world as every visiter only wanted to talk British engineering there after :y
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
question is where..now they have pulled the plug on folkestone >:(
Eastbourne is just one that comes to mind, let alone Fairford and the rest as Dad1uk has rightly listed :y :y :y
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Oh Lizzie Darling!! I thought this thread was going to be on about Spock and Captain Kirk..... :-*
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Oh Lizzie Darling!! I thought this thread was going to be on about Spock and Captain Kirk..... :-*
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Went to an airshow at a U.S. base in Essex called Wethersfield some 45 yrs ago.
They had a Vulcan there that day and when main display was over they fired it up.
Blimey, it started to rip the tarmac from off the runway, the blackstuff went everywhere.
What an awesome machine, made my day. :D
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I'll be getting my arse down to Waddington in a few weeks with my camera :y
The blood thing had better fly this time.
Last time I ventured down that way, it was grounded after a paperwork cockup >:( >:(
Used to do a couple of airshows a year in the old days.
Nowdays, they are just too tame and predictable for me :(
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I'll be getting my arse down to Waddington in a few weeks with my camera :y
The blood thing had better fly this time.
Last time I ventured down that way, it was grounded after a paperwork cockup >:( >:(
Used to do a couple of airshows a year in the old days.
Nowdays, they are just too tame and predictable for me :(
Quite agree Tigers, used to be a bit of rope about 25 yards from runway,now your,e so far away
you can,t see bugger all. :y
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Remember so many years ago now,as a boy going to the airshows at R.A.F.Finningly[now Robin Hood airport]just outside Doncaster.The show was always opened by 4 Vulcans doing a "scramble".The noise!The vibration of sound!What an awesome thing to experience.
My father was born in Cottesmore village, use to go and visit relatives in the village, end of the fifties. Was in his cousins house when they scrambled for real for RAF Cottesmore, they shook the whole village. A crew and a ground crew stayed with the aircraft at all times for a quick scramble.
It was a full throttle Scramble, it was noisy, shook everything off the mantelpiece in the cottage. :y
WW2 Fighter Ace Johnny Johnson was the CO at the time.
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Remember so many years ago now,as a boy going to the airshows at R.A.F.Finningly[now Robin Hood airport]just outside Doncaster.The show was always opened by 4 Vulcans doing a "scramble".The noise!The vibration of sound!What an awesome thing to experience.
My father was born in Cottesmore village, use to go and visit relatives in the village, end of the fifties. Was in his cousins house when they scrambled for real for RAF Cottesmore, they shook the whole village. A crew and a ground crew stayed with the aircraft at all times for a quick scramble.
It was a full throttle Scramble, it was noisy, shook everything off the mantelpiece in the cottage. :y
WW2 Fighter Ace Johnny Johnson was the CO at the time.
Awesome days, but very scary ones that I remember only too well. :y :y :y :y
Yes a full Vulcan scramble was a sight to behold, but thanks to my Royal Navy father I knew only too well what it could mean. A knowledge that grew with age ;) ;)
I knew that if "for real" the Vulcan's would be taking off with already fully nuclear armed American B52's of SAC (Strategic Air Command), that had been kept in the air on a rota of 24/7/365, would already be on their way over Russia towards their allotted targets, after Presidential codes had been conformed. The end would have been very near. :P :P
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The fast scrambles on the vulcans didn't do the engines a lot of good!
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when Britain ruled the sky :y
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when Britain ruled the sky :y
Indeed. We can't even be trusted to secure the engine cowlings before flight these days. ::) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22650901 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22650901)
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The fast scrambles on the vulcans didn't do the engines a lot of good!
They also were banned on practice scrambles as they melted the end of the runway!
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Remember so many years ago now,as a boy going to the airshows at R.A.F.Finningly[now Robin Hood airport]just outside Doncaster.The show was always opened by 4 Vulcans doing a "scramble".The noise!The vibration of sound!What an awesome thing to experience.
My father was born in Cottesmore village, use to go and visit relatives in the village, end of the fifties. Was in his cousins house when they scrambled for real for RAF Cottesmore, they shook the whole village. A crew and a ground crew stayed with the aircraft at all times for a quick scramble.
It was a full throttle Scramble, it was noisy, shook everything off the mantelpiece in the cottage. :y
WW2 Fighter Ace Johnny Johnson was the CO at the time.
Awesome days, but very scary ones that I remember only too well. :y :y :y :y
Yes a full Vulcan scramble was a sight to behold, but thanks to my Royal Navy father I knew only too well what it could mean. A knowledge that grew with age ;) ;)
I knew that if "for real" the Vulcan's would be taking off with already fully nuclear armed American B52's of SAC (Strategic Air Command), that had been kept in the air on a rota of 24/7/365, would already be on their way over Russia towards their allotted targets, after Presidential codes had been conformed. The end would have been very near. :P :P
Very very near At the time of the Cuban crises in 1963 the finger must have been a Gnats left B*****k away from the firing button. RAF Melton Mowbray was a satellite of RAF North Luffenham and had three Thor ballistic missiles based there. Could see them from my bedroom window, that was the only time I saw them in the launch position for days, got the impression they were fuelled and armed ready to go. I remember sitting watching them, wondering how long before the Russian Missiles hit, the area must have been targeted. Just didn't believe it would happen, I was 19 at the time.
Looking at the reports of the crises years later, I didn't realise, at the time, how close we were, .
The missiles had gone and the airfield closed by 1965.
Apparently the Russian people knew nothing about it until years later.
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Remember so many years ago now,as a boy going to the airshows at R.A.F.Finningly[now Robin Hood airport]just outside Doncaster.The show was always opened by 4 Vulcans doing a "scramble".The noise!The vibration of sound!What an awesome thing to experience.
My father was born in Cottesmore village, use to go and visit relatives in the village, end of the fifties. Was in his cousins house when they scrambled for real for RAF Cottesmore, they shook the whole village. A crew and a ground crew stayed with the aircraft at all times for a quick scramble.
It was a full throttle Scramble, it was noisy, shook everything off the mantelpiece in the cottage. :y
WW2 Fighter Ace Johnny Johnson was the CO at the time.
Awesome days, but very scary ones that I remember only too well. :y :y :y :y
Yes a full Vulcan scramble was a sight to behold, but thanks to my Royal Navy father I knew only too well what it could mean. A knowledge that grew with age ;) ;)
I knew that if "for real" the Vulcan's would be taking off with already fully nuclear armed American B52's of SAC (Strategic Air Command), that had been kept in the air on a rota of 24/7/365, would already be on their way over Russia towards their allotted targets, after Presidential codes had been conformed. The end would have been very near. :P :P
Very very near At the time of the Cuban crises in 1963 the finger must have been a Gnats left B*****k away from the firing button. RAF Melton Mowbray was a satellite of RAF North Luffenham and had three Thor ballistic missiles based there. Could see them from my bedroom window, that was the only time I saw them in the launch position for days, got the impression they were fuelled and armed ready to go. I remember sitting watching them, wondering how long before the Russian Missiles hit, the area must have been targeted. Just didn't believe it would happen, I was 19 at the time.
Looking at the reports of the crises years later, I didn't realise, at the time, how close we were, .
The missiles had gone and the airfield closed by 1965.
Apparently the Russian people knew nothing about it until years later.
Oh yes, it was the one time I saw my father, a Chief Yeoman of Signals in the Royal Navy, look really frightened as he knew what was taking place over just a few crucial hours.
We now know that this incident scarred the living daylights out of President Kennedy, and he was the instigator of the "hot line" between Washington and the Kremlin so he could ensure it never ran so close again. Actually records show it did again in the 1970's, but was quickly defused and kept from the public. :) :)
So when I see a Vulcan, or any of the "V" bombers, I think of those times and shudder.
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
Should think he will poo himself. ;D ;D ;D
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Good news!
Vulcan XH558 has taken again to the sky for the first time this year, and all checks and tests are going very well, with it fully expected to attend air displays:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/491
Looking forward to seeing her yet again! What a treat! :y :y :y :y
I have one 2.5 year old grandson who will thrilled to hear and see this massive jet in flight once more, being especially impressed with her roar!! 8) 8) :) :)
Should think he will poo himself. ;D ;D ;D
He doesn't amazingly. He just stands there and becomes very excited when he sees the Vulcan, let alone any aeroplane, but when it turned away from Eastbourne sea front last year, and applied full throttle, he just loved it and did not stop making "roaring noises" for an hour or more afterwards.
However, one lad was not so happy. My 8 year old severely autistic child did the opposite; he just cried as though in great pain and just wanted it to stop! I, and his mother, felt so guilty and certainly made me cry to see him in such distress :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(.
When we go to the display again, we aim to have him wearing a pair of ear defenders so it never distresses him again. :y :y
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Another Good News newsletter is available on the latest with the Vulcan:
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/493
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Latest news later on this great plane and continuing success in getting her ready for the shows in 2013 - Apart from that it shows more wonderful pictures of the Vulcan!
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/494
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Another news letter. But I post it purely for the great pictures for those getting bored with this thread!! :D :D :D :D ;) ;)
http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/wlnk/c/1216/r/226624/e/495
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I'm absolutely sure she was over our house in Lincoln on Saturday or Sunday... :y