marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
I saw it on the Burton to Derby leg, on the road between Repton and Newton Solney. Groups of people all along the road!
The Last Vulcan Flight
- Thread starter Over The Hill
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Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Wandered down to Wilmslow High School with the kids and my dad to watch from the school field as I thought Alderley Edge would be packed. The Vulcan came right over our heads then banked and went off to Woodford, came back about 5 minutes later. No one else there apart from a few kids playing football, couldn't have picked a better place.
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
I went up to Lyth Hill to watch as it's near the scheduled turn point in Shropshire. Plenty of others had the same idea and to our delight it passed almost directly overhead (from the marked route I'd expected it to swing around us to the south).
I hadn't expected it to come close enough to get any decent photos so didn't take a proper camera but did grab some snapshots on my phone in the end:
People gathering before arrival.
Here she comes.
Heading for the turn point over the former Condover airfield.
I hadn't expected it to come close enough to get any decent photos so didn't take a proper camera but did grab some snapshots on my phone in the end:
People gathering before arrival.
Here she comes.
Heading for the turn point over the former Condover airfield.
gavgav
Legendary Member
We had a great view of it from Shrewsbury Town Football Stadium, as it flew over about half an hour into the 1st half. It was the only excitement in a drab 45 minutes, as we were 2-0 down at the time. After the Vulcan passed over we scored 4 times to win 4-2! It must have woken the players up with its growl!
Booyaa
Veteran
- Location
- South Staffordshire
Saw it off the edge on Penkridge on it's way to Cannock Chase, a fine plane no doubt.
Soltydog
Legendary Member
- Location
- near Hornsea
managed to finish work at 12.30 & get to Brough for the flypast there. Loads of folk along the BAE airfield, but i stayed on the footbridge at the railway station & it turned out to be the best spot 
Flew from the south over the railway, did a loop over the town centre & back over the station & headed east. I guess there were a few disappointed folk down on the airfield 
Flew from the south over the railway, did a loop over the town centre & back over the station & headed east. I guess there were a few disappointed folk down on the airfield 
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
A mix of happiness and sadness for me, brought up around the Vulcan most of my life, my late dad worked on Bomber Command most of his RAF career of 28 years IIRC. Vickers Valiants which took him to Aden and Rhodesia before their demise, RAF Scampton on the the squadron which recieved Vulcans from other squadrons for maintenance.
His claims to fame were some the dumbo characters painted on the tailfins of aircraft headed out to the USA on bombing competition, painted on self adhesive sheets in our kitchen at Cherry Willingham...and one dubious honour of being the man who repaired a Vulcan that dented its wingtip while being brought into a hangar...virtually a disaster as it HAD to go out in short time. The repair...a big pot of araldite. Dad had studied the technical manuals and decided (and convinced his superiors) it was an acceptable and safe repair.
His twin brother was crew chief on vulcans and did trips to the USA on those bombing competitions.
Ironically dad had a hatred of flying, he'd done tours in Germany in the late 50s and been on recovery teams retrieving bodies from crashed aircraft...no surprise then.
He used to bring odd things home, like servos made (IIRC) by Honeywell...big lumps of gagetry about the size of a shoebox, defective I guess, I suspect he would have been bollicked for it either way.
He visited a museum partly if not wholly to do with the Vickers Valiant a couple years before he lost his sight. They were horrified to hear when they were scrapping them, dad 'salvaged' the 'spectacles'...the flight column to you and me, and it had been in his loft for decades, he threw it out ...months before visiting the museum (unplanned at the time of throwing it out)....they'd have given their right arms for it.
Sorry, rambling a bit. Dad passed almost exactly a year ago. The V Force was his life, he loved it and lived it. He'd have jumped for joy to hear one, let alone see one in the air again.
His claims to fame were some the dumbo characters painted on the tailfins of aircraft headed out to the USA on bombing competition, painted on self adhesive sheets in our kitchen at Cherry Willingham...and one dubious honour of being the man who repaired a Vulcan that dented its wingtip while being brought into a hangar...virtually a disaster as it HAD to go out in short time. The repair...a big pot of araldite. Dad had studied the technical manuals and decided (and convinced his superiors) it was an acceptable and safe repair.
His twin brother was crew chief on vulcans and did trips to the USA on those bombing competitions.
Ironically dad had a hatred of flying, he'd done tours in Germany in the late 50s and been on recovery teams retrieving bodies from crashed aircraft...no surprise then.
He used to bring odd things home, like servos made (IIRC) by Honeywell...big lumps of gagetry about the size of a shoebox, defective I guess, I suspect he would have been bollicked for it either way.
He visited a museum partly if not wholly to do with the Vickers Valiant a couple years before he lost his sight. They were horrified to hear when they were scrapping them, dad 'salvaged' the 'spectacles'...the flight column to you and me, and it had been in his loft for decades, he threw it out ...months before visiting the museum (unplanned at the time of throwing it out)....they'd have given their right arms for it.
Sorry, rambling a bit. Dad passed almost exactly a year ago. The V Force was his life, he loved it and lived it. He'd have jumped for joy to hear one, let alone see one in the air again.
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Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
[QUOTE 3948303, member: 76"]Well, that was worth the trip. My and the kids positioned ourselves in the field under the approach lights at the western end of Bristol airport runway. Wow, a few dozen metres over our heads, strangely emotional, even for the kids. When it approached it was a bit to the south, then turned over Goblin Coombe and straightened up for the flight along the runway line from the west, the size and shape as it turned on to one wing tip was mesmerising.[/QUOTE]
You made a better choice than me!
Went to Severn Beach, just north of the new bridge. Then twitter said it had done Filton (which was supposed to be after it had looped over the Severn) and was going to Portishead and then Cardiff, so we just saw it in the distance. Then after about half the people waiting had gone, disappointed, they said they were going to do the Severn Bridges after all. But instead of the expected couple of flyovers, it appeared on the west side of the river and turned east over the old bridge. So these were the best I got (with a zoom lens) - haze didn't help.
Rather undewhelmed, sadly.
You made a better choice than me!
Went to Severn Beach, just north of the new bridge. Then twitter said it had done Filton (which was supposed to be after it had looped over the Severn) and was going to Portishead and then Cardiff, so we just saw it in the distance. Then after about half the people waiting had gone, disappointed, they said they were going to do the Severn Bridges after all. But instead of the expected couple of flyovers, it appeared on the west side of the river and turned east over the old bridge. So these were the best I got (with a zoom lens) - haze didn't help.
Rather undewhelmed, sadly.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
[QUOTE 3948352, member: 45"]I think they used their time up circling Bristol.[/QUOTE]
The constraint would probably have been fuel burned at low-level, rather than time.
The constraint would probably have been fuel burned at low-level, rather than time.
