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« on: 21 May 2013, 18:31:17 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #1 on: 21 May 2013, 18:47:04 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #2 on: 21 May 2013, 18:57:52 »
Quote from: Lizzie Zoom on 21 May 2013, 18:31:17
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #3 on: 21 May 2013, 19:20:32 »
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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« Reply #4 on: 21 May 2013, 19:52:30 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #5 on: 21 May 2013, 20:18:16 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #6 on: 21 May 2013, 20:18:43 »
Quote from: Lizzie Zoom on 21 May 2013, 18:31:17
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #7 on: 21 May 2013, 20:45:49 »
Quote from: the alarming man on 21 May 2013, 20:18:43
Quote from: Lizzie Zoom on 21 May 2013, 18:31:17
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #8 on: 21 May 2013, 21:25:56 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #9 on: 22 May 2013, 19:42:41 »
Quote from: the alarming man on 21 May 2013, 20:18:43
Quote from: Lizzie Zoom on 21 May 2013, 18:31:17
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #10 on: 22 May 2013, 20:31:12 »
Oh Lizzie Darling!! I thought this thread was going to be on about Spock and Captain Kirk..... :-*
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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #11 on: 23 May 2013, 06:14:07 »
Quote from: Darth Loo-knee on 22 May 2013, 20:31:12
Oh Lizzie Darling!! I thought this thread was going to be on about Spock and Captain Kirk..... :-*

 :y ;D ;D
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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #12 on: 23 May 2013, 12:59:35 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #13 on: 23 May 2013, 13:43:47 »
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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Re: Vulcan XH558
« Reply #14 on: 23 May 2013, 16:48:15 »
Quote from: tigers_gonads on 23 May 2013, 13:43:47
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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