A Vulcan Bomber Tribute

[th4neuk]

Met the guy who flies this last night!!

He also flew it on the mission to the falklands in the 80's!!

Cheers

Alan

[SPEEDBIRD 202]

The Vulcan was back in the air yesterday the first time for quite a while

The Main Undercarriage had to be removed and rebuilt. The aircraft also had other modifications done. The Vulcan's weight had not been on its main wheels for nearly 9 months.

Amazing achievement to get such a Technical Beast back in the air.

It's looking good for the Summer airshow season now - The Vulcan over Kemble - Drift

[bigdazz]

wow music goes well with it was she a long rang nuk bomber ?

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[bigdazz]

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[th4neuk]

I'm reliably informed it will be flying at Waddington tomorrow.

And we will be there.

Waheeeyyyyyyyy

Cheers

Alan

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[westo123]

It was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed as well.
The first two are short videos.

[SPEEDBIRD 202]

Very nice thanks for that westo123,

The Festival of Speed is one of those things I haven't done yet, but I would very much like to.

I'm thinking of maybe going to the Revival - as again I haven't done that one

[bigdazz]

wow so graceful nic pic just been watching it on utube

[Drift]

Bugger, its not at Southport this year

[th4neuk]

The fly over at Waddington was awesome. He did a simulated bombing run with the bomb doors open and several passes and then power pull ups. Absolutely awesome and just as I remember them flying when I was a kid.

My little boy and wife had nipped to the loo and it shook the whole toilet block!!

An awesome piece of kit!

All we need now is someone to rescue a concorde and british (with a bit of french) engineering can be displayed again.

Cheers

Alan

[Drift]

They are looking at getting a concord up and running again

[th4neuk]

that would be so cool.

Again remember as a kid one flying over us on takeoff from heathrow. Shook the whole car!!!

One of those things I always wished I'd been able to take a flight on.

The programme on channel 4 about it was very sad.

Cheers

[Drift]

Here you go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... again.html

[SPEEDBIRD 202]

The Vulcan and Red Arrows opened the Farnborough Air Show yesterday, here is a link to see the opening flypast - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUGOav8C404

[Hound Dog]

She's on static display at the moment at Farnborough

[SPEEDBIRD 202]

I know there are some people on the Forum who follow the only flying example of a Vulcan in existence 'XH558', well it looked like it was going to be grounded because of a lack of funds . The Vulcan Trust needed 400k by the end of October for essential repairs It seemed a tough task to achieve earlier in the month, but a lot of money has flowed in during the last week - such that 'it might be alright on the night'.....

For anybody who is interested more information can be found - Just Here

[Drift]

I thought you guys may like this site, audio clips too

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/Edwards ... rds09.html