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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Marks DTM Calib on 18 October 2007, 08:43:18
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.....because the Vulcan should take to the skies.
It had a nose up fast taxi yesterday and today the weather is superb so it should leave the ground!
It will be good to see our last major British designed aircraft in the sky as it is truly a piece of our history the likes of which we are not capable of doing ourselves again.
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Ive been following this as i am into aviation (training for my ppl).
I think the country will never produce engineers like that anymore.
Matt
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Yesterdays Fast Taxi run:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSboTXYrgJg
And a little picture...or two
(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/public6/5580710170.jpg)
(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/public6/5580710171.jpg)
(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/public6/5580710172.jpg)
(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/public6/5580710173.jpg)
(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/public6/5580710175.jpg)
(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/public6/5580710176.jpg)
Stunning...
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The pics dont it justice of the size of this thing does it. A very lucky captain who takes this in the sky!
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The people flying it are the two display pilots who did the work when it was in RAF service.....I have been in 558 (on the ground) many years ago and had a tour more recently of a rescued nose cone.....it certainly isnt a place I would want to be for any length of time....let allone 20+hours on bombing raids to the Falklands.
The visability is appaling!
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You would have thought whoever designed airplanes that visibility would have been paramount. I learn in a Piper Warrior and the visibility upward is good , but in a left bank turn the wing just blocks alot of your sight out as you sit kind of low in the cockpit. I have had a go in a cessna 172 which is a high wing and that was the opposite , brilliant low visibility but above is crap cause of the high wings.
Matt
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Adding to that , it just goes to show how much talent the older generation of pilots were to be able to keep these things in the air with such bad tools. No GPS etc.
Almost makes an airline pilot look like a flightsim geek in comparison.
Matt
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Must get myself over to see this. Took a photo of one at Duxford..... I had to stand about half a mile away to get the whole thing in!!!!!
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Keep up-to-date with the latest info on XH558 ..
Today should be the day !! :)
http://www.tvoc.co.uk
and airfield camera..
http://vbc01.verifiedalarms.co.uk/index.php?sect=2
and some info..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7049694.stm
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Well, fingers crossed :)
Couldn't hope for a better flying day. I even dug the Westfield out of the garage for my commute today 8-)
Kevin
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Must be warmer where you are then as its 3 degrees here in stoke on trent. Suns out but very cold!
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Live on Sky News apparantly....11.30.
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I didn't say I was warm when I arrived!
Kevin
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:y :y
tvoc web site is slow
This is exciting!
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:o now you can buy 747`s from asda wow i`m off to get 1... ;D ;D
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Vulcan's are awesome.
I saw one at an Air show YEARS ago. the noise it made was incredible!
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Can now be seen on the camera.
Looking forward to seeing her fly! :y
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YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :y :y :y :y :y :y :y :y
At work.... saw it live on Sky News ... fantastic :) :)
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i missed it :(
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Is anyone else having probs getting onto the TVOC Web site ?. I keep getting Reeds Rains estate agents?. Perhaps they need TB to fix their web site (Host it ?) ;D That would be good, we'd have to change the name to " The Omega and Vulcan Owners forum" ;D ;D ;D Sorry, flights of fancy again!.
Ken
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Good to see it flying again.....and with no hitch.
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Is anyone else having probs getting onto the TVOC Web site ?. I keep getting Reeds Rains estate agents?. Perhaps they need TB to fix their web site (Host it ?) ;D That would be good, we'd have to change the name to " The Omega and Vulcan Owners forum" ;D ;D ;D Sorry, flights of fancy again!.
Ken
I don't fancy doing the breathers on a Vulcan though!
Wonder if you can connect Tech 2?
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just caught up with this one, simply fantastic stuff...
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Is the flight video online anywhere yet?
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Is the flight video online anywhere yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrTmwkGZeQ
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3662494.stm
You can also go to this link :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2007/07/19/east_midlands_airport_complaints_feature.shtml
then click on the link on the right "Vulcan Returns to the Skies"
:)
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Great video, shame the Sky camera man's not very good at tracking real aircraft !. Now if they would only restore a couple of Lightnings and the TSR2, then life would be sweet.
Ken
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Splendid! The bbc one was brief in the extreme though.
tradgedy they didn't manage to keep a Concorde flying - give it 10 years or so and maybe we'll get one restored :y
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The camera work was terrible. :o
TSR-2 would be brilliant :y - then it could be tested on Healeys >:( house
I wonder if it will be on 6 oclock news?
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Amazing sight and what a NOISE! Saw one flying when I was a youngster - unforgettable just for the shear size of it & the speed it can climb. Great to see it up in the skys again.
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As allready said this is a great piece of British Engineering :y
Glad to see that this is back in the skies :y
Shane the camera man wasnt as good as the Vulcan :-/
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Fantastic What a great sight to see :y :y :y
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Fantastic to see it in the air again.
I was lucky enough to get an air-to-air view of one of the last Vulcans when I met it in a glider in '91 and it was truly awesome.
Kevin
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What a wonderful project. You need a lot of passion for something like that.
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Fantastic to see it in the air again.
I was lucky enough to get an air-to-air view of one of the last Vulcans when I met it in a glider in '91 and it was truly awesome.
Kevin
It will have been THE last flying Vulcan in that year....and the last flying Vulcan was this one....558
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saw it on the news tonight.....looked awesome....
Cannot believe it is nearly 60 years old, still looks like a fresh design today
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My mum and mother in law saw it fly over Market Harborough.....lucky buggers.
I would of loved to have seen the first flight because I remember seeing the last one.....ow well, saw it on Sky News.
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It will have been THE last flying Vulcan in that year....and the last flying Vulcan was this one....558
Strange to think that it was also the first Vulcan B MKII as well! Shows just how well engineered and designed it was I guess
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Hopping between BBC news, ITV news and News 24 tonight - no sign of it :(
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1288877,00.html
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/news/ ....look at the right side of the screen.
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Wanted to see it on TV not on a little video
Not happy with the BBC who cares about ITV ripping off phone users, who cares about most of the news - this was important
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:)Not a big aviation fan but the pics are pretty impressive. I saw the Lancaster fly over Coningsby a few years back when i lived in Tattershall. It was'nt very high up, moved slowly andwe stood right under it wondering how it stayed up at such a low speed. There's another @ E Kirkby airfield that taxis but no longer takes flight. Sorry,no pics but it was breathtaking. :y
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I can't remember the year, probably 91 or 92, it must have been 558 which did a fly past over the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol where I worked. A beautiful afternoon, looked up and there she was. Absolutly forking awsome. And we've got our own Concorde (216) Saw that one on it's final flight. A very memorable sad day.