Vulcan !!!!!!

[skudupnorth]

As Lancasters have been metnioned in this thread, does anyone else know, or has visited the Panton brothers??

http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/
Just posted a picture of that Lancaster on the photography site under Transport when she was a gate guard at RAF Scampton

 

[sdr gb]

What channel?

It was on BBC 4. It's a 2 part series. Missed the second episode but the first is well worth a watch charting RAF jets through the 50's and 60's. Lots of good old footage, including the test pilot rolling a Vulcan at the Farnborough airshow. Also features Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

My favourite Vulcan story, i think of it every time i drive on the A38 and look down the runway at Filton.

"In 1960, an RAF Vulcan bomber, approaching from the west, landed at Filton in heavy rain. The pilot braked, but started to aquaplane. He decided to abort the landing. Although he managed to take-off and eventually land successfully elsewhere, the jet blast from the aircraft's four Bristol Siddeley Olympus 201 engines severely damaged a filling station at the eastern end of the runway, sent cars spinning on the A38 trunk road and wrecked the boundary fence steel railings. Eye witnesses claimed that the aircraft barely cleared the engine test beds next to the Bristol to South Wales railway embankment. Subsequently, the filling station was moved further north, to a safer location."

Most heavy metal plane ever

 

[Andrew_Culture]

What channel?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod..._Ruled_the_Skies_The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come/

I didn't realise it was a series, I look forward to seeing the rest.

I was hoping to see the footage of the barrel roll someone managed in a 737!

 

[gbb]

Ah, the Handley-Page Victor. The nastiest, meanest, most evil looking ever aircraft ever made. If you didn't already know you were in trouble when the Victor flew over, one glance would be enough to ram the message home.

I related this story of my dads in a post a while ago, but for the record...
( i#m pretty sure it related to a Victor, but it could have been a Vulcan)
They were doing a night duty and a Victor was due in...the base was quite quite quiet otherwise.
They got the nod he was taxi'ing in, so they sent out one of the younger fellas to bring it in.
They sat there a while and began to wonder what was happening (or not, as the case may be). He wondered out onto the peri track to see the young fella curled up fetal fashion in front of the aircraft, which had landing lights blazing, the pilot was gesticulating furiously, livid with the fact he was just sitting there....apparently this apparition of the aircrafts nose looming out of the darkness had scared the poor sod into a state of pure panic....he just slumped onto the deck.

 

[TVC]

This is going on about 5 miles due south from me:

http://www.thevictoryshow.co.uk/

I cycled past it earlier on my ride today, saw a Spit, a Harvard and what I think was a Storch while I was in the area.
Anyway, back home now, when about 20 minutes ago I heard 'That' sound of XH558 doing climb turns. 5 miles off and it still startled the cat. Sadly I didn't see it thanks to trees and a rise in the land, I was hoping it would at least fly over once, but all I got was a Mustang in a holding pattern over head.

 

[gbb]

As Lancasters have been metnioned in this thread, does anyone else know, or has visited the Panton brothers??

http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/

I've been once (2004??), & the Lanc was started up at less than 10 yards from where I was standing

The sound of those 4 Merlins being run-up was incredible, as was the taxi-out & throttled up with the brakes applied - the sight of that tailplane shakign under power was wonderful

There was also a 2-seater Spitfire displaying the same day!!

There are certain things that the average guy doesnt realise about these planes...my dad related this to me in the past when i asked if he enjoyed being in aircraft..(he joined in 1947 IIRC)
'Bloody hell no, they scared me to death...you sit in a Mosquito doing a full throttle test on the engines, propellers screaming within feet of you in the cockpit, the whole thing feels like its going to shake itself to peices...its not for the faint hearted

Another was a fabulous article in the Daily Telegraph IIRC about a journalist who got a trip in a twin seat Spitfire...he did a wonderfu job of describing the assault on your senses in flight...he said he swore his teeth were going to fall out, the vibration was tremendous .

Funnily enough, i was round dads yesterday and just reminded myself, he's got his squadron photo on the wall, probably 100 RAF personell, all immaculately lined up in front of a Vickers Valliant..the ill fated member of the V bomber trio.

 

[G2EWS]

It was 1968 and I was clambering over rocks at 'Brimham Rocks' with a buddy. Suddenly the sky went very dark!

We looked up all worried and a squadron of Vulcans was going over, what appeared to be just above our heads.

The sight has never left me and even after being in the RAF I have never seen them like that again.

One of the most enjoyable sights for me was in Saudi Arabia, I was working over there teaching Arabs, electronics. On the base I worked on in Tabuk Northern Saudi, the local Prince had bought the ex RAF chief trainer a 'big' English Electric Lightning. Every morning he took it up for a weather check and they reinforced the end of the runway for him. He would get to the end, then go straight up. Awesome! Normal runways melt!

Regards

Chris

 

[gbb]

You just don't get these sights and stories anymore...its boring up there in the skies nowadays. Not so many years ago, we'd see A10 Tankbusters, Harriers, C130 (is that right) Hurcules, Tornado's, occasional F111s and the american spyplanes, and more, regularly over the perimeter of Peterborough...
As teenagers, we'd see Bucaneers, Phantoms, Shackletons, Canberras, Jet Provosts, so many aircraft, regularly......now, you see a couple of planes a week if you're lucky.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Another was a fabulous article in the Daily Telegraph IIRC about a journalist who got a trip in a twin seat Spitfire...he did a wonderfu job of describing the assault on your senses in flight...he said he swore his teeth were going to fall out, the vibration was tremendous .

This??
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Griffiths-fulfilled-childhood-dream-out.html

I guess you've seen the Top Gear clip, with the 3 of them all up in 2-seaters?, & Clarkson laughing like a drain due to the sheer exhuberance of it all?

 

[Herr-B]

The best way to meet the German TG team!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

[quote="Andrew_Culture, post: 2007032, member: 21241]
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![/quote]

Yes, sometimes if the 'Yorkshire Air Ambulance' is unavailable (when they only had one chopper) RAF Leconfield would help out.
I've seen the SeaKing land a few times & the downdraft is incredible.

We went inside it for a look round & despite all the high-tech navigational gear, it was gratifying to see a rack of dog-eared OS maps


John (Charge Nurse) who was with me, tentatively enquired about 'observer flights'?

"No problem, so long as you Trust covers you for insurance/permission/etc...."
"However, we can't take you at night, or over open-water"

Several years on, we're still waiting someone to sign our lives away

Click on pics to open/enlarge

 

[Standoff]

Vulcan flew over me last Sunday as I was riding on the A57 Worksop road. Nearly fell off staring up at it!

 

[Bromptonaut]

Was at the Cosby/Croft Victory day Leicester way this aft. Lovely sight and sound.

 

[Maz]

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.

I saw it too! Overhead in Leicester about 3pm-ish. Couldn't believe the roar.