Vulcan !!!!!!

[Dangermouse]

The Vulcan is based only 5 miles from me and flies over every friday at about 9am to test the engines, and even luckier it does some low level turns about 9:15 the same day over my place of work, as for noise, it used to be loud until the Typhoon took its crown, the Tiffy can set off every car alarm in the vicinity of half a mile on a full afterburn vertical climb and make your ears bleed to boot.

 

[gbb]

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

That strikes a chord with me...as a kid i lived about 8 miles from Scampton where my dad was based. The houses had steel windowframes that used to rattle like the glass was going to fall out when they ran the engines up or were taking off...i can hear it now, maybe 40 years after, a deep deep rumbling roar.

 

[gbb]

Co-incidentally, earlier this week, maybe Monday or Tuesday, i was just outside my workshops at work in Chatteris, heard that unmistakeable sound...a Lancaster, only a few hundred feet up, coming towards me at a slight angle, lovely clear view of him, squadron number 'BOB'.
Crikey, that was the lowest i think i've ever seen one.

 

[Eddy13]

Have a look at this link

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpmNoFCJv0A&feature=player_embedded

 

[mattobrien]

I saw the Vulcan today, it flew over Silverstone while we were watching the Le Mans car compete for 6 hours. Wished I had taken a bike for getting around the circuit, plenty of folk did.

 

[Melonfish]

I was at Elvington this week just gone, they have some beautiful planes. seriously the Handley page Halifax and the Mosquito NF were stunning. i'd have loved to have gone in the halifax but sadly it wasn't open to the public that day, but i did get to go in the C47 Dakota
i've seen the vulcan fly over a few times and i agree its got that rolls royce merlin effect, you can feel the engines in your testosterone!

 

[skudupnorth]

The Vulcan is based only 5 miles from me and flies over every friday at about 9am to test the engines, and even luckier it does some low level turns about 9:15 the same day over my place of work, as for noise, it used to be loud until the Typhoon took its crown, the Tiffy can set off every car alarm in the vicinity of half a mile on a full afterburn vertical climb and make your ears bleed to boot.

I was wondering about it's test flights and was it worth blundering over to Finningley...err Doncaster airport to watch it in a non-airshow flight,must be brilliant to set your watch to !

 

[gbb]

Speaking of Lancasters...

Found this on ebay...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140812713262?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619
Painted by...my dad.
He was prolific, so many paintings, of aircraft from the First World War, to Vulcans, Bucaneers, VC10s, to 19th century shipping, to 18th century soldiers in uniform etc etc...its no wonder they turn up now and again.
Dad was really really pleased to hear about it.

 

[Campfire]

Vulcan once came to an air show at Barton, near Manchester. We live as the crow (or Vulcan) flies about 5 miles away. It came over our house, was so low, it was right over our house. Awesome! I didn't have a zoom on my camera, so even low was too far for my single lens. Wonderful sight. That last video was great.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Me n a friend cycling down to Norwich from Newcatle in sept 1980 we missed our turn coming out of Lincoln so ended up nea on a back road that lead past an RAF airfield - both a phenomenal and scary experience when two Vulcans flew over us followed by a they'd a minute or so after.
Never forget that as they were maybe a couple of hundred feet above us!

Re choppers, about 3 years ago, I was driving into work when the local radio chopper pilot guy who does the traffic reports went off for a few seconds then when wound up by the presenter, said he'd just been buzzed by two Apache helicopters.
10 minutes later parked in our lower level car park and walked up the ramp to see two fully loaded Apaches come over at about 300 feet approaching the airport.
Bloody awesome.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I saw the Vulcan today, it flew over Silverstone while we were watching the Le Mans car compete for 6 hours. Wished I had taken a bike for getting around the circuit, plenty of folk did.

Surely that would result in the ultimate SMIDSY?

Although in all seriousness I hear Brands Hatch has cycling days, I'd love to cycle around that course!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Speaking of Lancasters...

Found this on ebay...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140812713262?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619
Painted by...my dad.
He was prolific, so many paintings, of aircraft from the First World War, to Vulcans, Bucaneers, VC10s, to 19th century shipping, to 18th century soldiers in uniform etc etc...its no wonder they turn up now and again.
Dad was really really pleased to hear about it.

Rad dad!

 

[Drago]

That Vulcan is an awesome machine, and credit to the crew that keep this piece of cold-war history alive.

We often see Apaches round our way, and the other week a Longbow popped up and flew alongside the car about quarter a mile off. I'm sure we were being used for a bit of targeting practice, which is fine by me... so long as they don't pull the trigger!

Some folk moan about the sound of military aircraft, but not me - that's the sound of freedom!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

My sister is mates with a bunch of Apache mechanics (one of them used to be in our NCT group) and I can confirm that yes, they do track civvy cars. Although my memory is a bit hazy so I might be wrong.

Our house is on the flight path for the local Sea King search and rescue helicopter, it's like seeing a detached house fly over!

 

[skudupnorth]

Here'sa few snaps of our chosen subject...............
Woodford airshow,early 90's

Feel the howl !

R.A.F. Scampton dump in 1986,sadly this is what happened to most of them

One that "survived" at Blackpool only to be turned in to Coke cans due to corrosion

Cockpit of the Blackpool lady

I had quite and "interest" in Avro's due to my Grandparents working for them during the war and into the Vulcan era