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[Marks DTM Calib]

.....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.

[omegalord]

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

[Marks DTM Calib]

Yesterdays Fast Taxi run:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSboTXYrgJg  

And a little picture...or two














Stunning...

[omegalord]

The pics dont it justice of the size of this thing does it. A very lucky captain who takes this in the sky!

[Marks DTM Calib]

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!

[omegalord]

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

[omegalord]

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

[VXL V6]

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!!!!!

[Entwood]

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

[Kevin Wood]

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

[omegalord]

Must be warmer where you are then as its 3 degrees here in stoke on trent. Suns out but very cold!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Live on Sky News apparantly....11.30.

[Kevin Wood]

I didn't say I was warm when I arrived!


Kevin

[Martin_1962]

 

tvoc web site is slow

This is exciting!

[bertiecbx550]

  now you can buy 747`s from asda wow i`m  off to get 1...