Who saw this old warbird stretch her legs again on 18/10/07, the first time in many years. Majestic or what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECwLl06ik0
2007-11-06 08:21:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
and this one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LVRobNHm8&NR=1
2007-11-06 08:28:46 · update #1
viking: Your detailed answer took me absolutely ages to read. 10 points are surely headed your way. Not.
2007-11-06 08:31:58 · update #2
Always loved the Vulcan since one flew over me at low level as I walked on the hills near Kielder in the mid 70s on his way to a low level bombing run at Otterburn range. My dad made Olympus engines for RR too, so it's especially nice to see his work flying again.
2007-11-06 09:26:35 · answer #1 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-03 08:49:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vulcan was an awsome machine and just watching the links took me back to when I was a kid of about 5 or 6 years old when playing in the playground at school and seeing this majestic bird flying above my head.
The school I attended then was about 2 miles from the old A.V Roe factory, and although I don`t think it actually took off from there,but was overflying the factory during a test flight. Being a few years after WW2 our perception of aircraft were of the Spitfire/ Hurricane configuration and to a lot of my schoolmates this great bird was like something out of a space comic and sent them running into the school. I loved that moment and the Vulcan has been one of my favourite aircraft ever since.It`s a credit to the men that have restored it.
2007-11-06 08:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by firebobby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THANKS for the link. I knew they were restoring one, but no idea they had it airworthy. Actually I didn't know they were intending on flying her again! That is so cool! I have seen the Vulcan at whatever the SAC Museum is called now. I saw it at the old location in Belleview (?) NE (Offutt AFB), and just last summer I saw it at the new museum. Pretty sad shape though.
I'd love it if someone in the US would get a B-58 Hustler flying again, the Vulcan and B-58 in formation flight, whataya think???
2007-11-06 11:31:16 · answer #4 · answered by Baron_von_Party 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stunning i observed it on television final night ! the vulcan has consistently been my all time universal airplane through fact seeing one doing a low point flypast at farnborough (1966 ish). years in the past i replaced into interior the aero marketplace myself the two at westlands and hawker siddeley engaged on the lynx and sea king and the trident and p1127, later to grow to be the harrier yet no longer something comes everywhere close to the vulcan, no longer even the concorde. appropriate marks to each physique in contact interior the restoration. desire they are in a position to maintain it flying, yet how long formerly somebody complains approximately its carbon footprint?
2016-10-15 06:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by trapani 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope the guys standing out near the runway watching this old bird launch were wearing hearing protection... Just the sound track on U-Tube makes my tinnitus act up!
2007-11-06 09:32:28 · answer #6 · answered by JetDoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah-seen a Vulcan at an airshow years ago-pre Falklands-and it was brilliant.Now if someone like Richard Branson would only restore a TSR2; I`d sell my soul and my grandmother to see THAT.
2007-11-07 02:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awesome!......Can't wait to see her doing the airshows next season.
2007-11-06 08:36:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that has a reputation for being one the most graceful aircraft there are.
2007-11-06 10:54:35 · answer #9 · answered by Pilot in Training 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
me
2007-11-06 08:26:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋