Vulcan !!!!!!

[gbb]

Stood in my kitchen, there's a roar above, there's a plane out there....into the garden, search the skies......oh yessss, its the Vulcan. I didnt even realise it was flying after that emergency fundraising a few months ago.
Maybe 3000 ft up , headed north. maybe north east, not going that fast.

Looks at the website, its currently near Waddington, headed for Doncaster. Phoned my dad who lives nearby, ...did you hear that plane ? (he's blind), that sparked a whole conversation, he used to work on them. I said it wasnt going very fast...no he said, it's tremendously expensive, the faster you fly them, they absolutely drink the fuel, so they'll just pootle along in it.

Big cheesy grin time, unmistakeable against blue skys, took me back 30 years and more when you saw them all the time.

 

[fossyant]

Awesome aircraft. Unmistakeable noise like spitfires.

 

[ianrauk]

Wonderful, wonderful aircraft.

 

[fossyant]

Concord was another you couldn't mistake. Or indeed the Chinook helicopter. Heard one very early one morning, very unmistakable thud thud thud, but quiet. Looked up for a while and could just see a dot high up, must have been flying at top end of the operating height, not exactly covert are they.

Eee bring back aircraft before noise regulations.

That said two tornadoes on low fly past with afterburner on are a bit deafening....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Gah, just give me a Victor back!

 

[gbb]

Concord was another you couldn't mistake. Or indeed the Chinook helicopter. Heard one very early one morning, very unmistakable thud thud thud, but quiet. Looked up for a while and could just see a dot high up, must have been flying at top end of the operating height, not exactly covert are they.

Eee bring back aircraft before noise regulations.

That said two tornadoes on low fly past with afterburner on are a bit deafening....

Heavy helicopters do it for me too...thump thump thump of a Chinook is unmistakeable as you say. Its a very primal kind of sound.

 

[TVC]

Whilst it was undergoing test flights at Bruntingthorpe I was gliding at Husbands Bosworth just down the road. I was lucky enough to be in the air when it was returning and flew past it a couple of miles off at similar height. What a buzz!

 

[Archie_tect]

Live long and prosper....

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

There was a Vulcan parked up at Southend airport for years.

Don't know what happened to it?

 

[skudupnorth]

Vulcan is the ultimate noise like a full works rally quattro in a forest ! The Vulcan at Southend still lives,she celabrated her 50th birthday this year.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Skudupnorth

Didn't know if easyjet were using it?

 

[psmiffy]

I once lived less than 300m from where a trio of Vulcans would frequently come in in the early hours of the morning and stand on the runway for a few minutes before leaving simultaneously en echelon - my mother would have us out of bed running round taking the pictures off the walls and the ornaments off the mantelpiece - watching them going off into the darkness in a steep climb is well impressive

 

[classic33]

There was a Vulcan parked up at Southend airport for years.

Don't know what happened to it?

http://www.avrovulcan.com/index.php...id=3:xl426-at-southend&catid=4:xl426&Itemid=3

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I remember sitting on the public footpath on the end of Bentwaters runway as a Vulcan came into land, it was the loudest thing in my entire life, and I've seen Sunn o)))


It was so loud the dogs we were with went totally flat.

 

[classic33]

Gah, just give me a Victor back!

When I've finished reading about Alf Tupper. Last one I have, he's "looking for the snow leapord".