Vulcan at Farnborough!!

[makster]

First time I've seen her take-off in the flesh since the last Bournemouth airshow in 1991!
Made my skin prickle, I tell thee

PS...click for video

 

[fingers]

Truly awesome.

 

[REKIBorter]

Fandabydozy

 

[chrisv40]

Fantastic, takes me back to my childhood when they used to fly over my school everyday.

I saw its farewell show at Finningley but I forget the year, would that be 1991?

 

[makster]

Fantastic, takes me back to my childhood when they used to fly over my school everyday.

I saw its farewell show at Finningley but I forget the year, would that be 1991?

Think it was 91. Was always the highlight of shows for me. Glad I decided to go on the Saturday as it couldn't fly on Sunday!

 

[drystonepaul]

Great to see it flying. My dad was part of the design team for the Vulcan at AVRO and then BAE as it became.
As a child I visited the cockpit while it was on the ground which, as it was still a classified and operational aircraft at the time, must've been a pretty rare opportunity.

My dad also has a few reels of cold war classified ballistic nuclear missile test footage which he borrowed from the archive to test out a 16mm projector he'd picked up. Incredible shots of a dummy missile being dropped into the airflow through the bomb bay doors.

Scary stuff when you think about it, but such a beautiful plane nonetheless.

 

[Stick Legs]

With apologies to Aston Martin (who have used this for their tacky dash display welocme)


POWER, BEAUTY, SOUL.

 

[JeRkY]

I saw one fly at an airshow in north devon, again must have been 1990/1991 ish. A staggeringly impressive sight!

 

[rosstheboss]

I saw the Vulcan at the Jersey Airshow a couple of years ago - it was amazing and slightly disappointing - the pilots weren't allowed to give it the full beans as the last time they did, apparently most of the car and building alarms were set off!!

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

Great engenering, and havign sat in one there was not a lot of room for any one. But at the end of the day it was there for one reason and one reson only To kill lots of people indiscriminatly.