First successful test flight today from Bruntingthorpe. after years of refurb. Now (all being well) going to do 10-15 years of shows and displays. Will be a REYT crowd puller.
Great news. TSR2 next...30 years ahead of its time, scuppered by politics and the yanks. http://www.spyflight.co.uk/TSR2.htm [img=http://www.cue-dih.co.uk/tiam/pix/unkn/acft/tsr2_inflt01.jpg]
RE: First successful test flight today from Bruntingthorpe. My brother used to live near RAF Waddington, the Vulcans would fly right over his house.
AWESOME! Saw it a few times at finningley - definately worth seeing an air show for that alone. Where's the nearest now?
RE: AWESOME! Depends where you are! I guess it'll be at the major airshows next year..... my nearest one is Waddington... and I bet it'll be there!! But like the Lancaster they'll have to love it, cuddle it, kiss it and wrap it up nice and warm to ensure it flies. It's the last flying (now) Vulcan in the world.
RE: First successful test flight today from Bruntingthorpe. I remember my match fishing Day's abart 27 years ago.</p> I was fishing with Highstone Road Club and we were in a match on the River Till nr Lincoln. </p> I heard this sound coming towards me which sounded like some thing rattling in the distance. It got louder and louder until it became deafening. It was a Vulcan taking off from RAF Waddington or Scampton? Never caught a fish after that went over. </p> I can't wait to see one flying again.</p> My favourite V bomber out of the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant was the Valiant. </p>
RE: Great news. Denis Healey and Lord Mountbatten trashed TSR2 as a result of pressure from the yanks that were in the process of developing the F111. Mountbatten convinced the Australians to buy the F111 in preference. Mountbatten was paid a substantial sum for screwing his own country. Oh aye, I know he was really a German but WTF eh? I watch one of the last airborne ones land at RAF Cosford and was on the team that pushed it into it's final resting place in the museum. A truely awesome aircraft stitched up by politics. The Mountbatten story with the 11 photographs and the Aussie air force is a fact though he denied it for years. It would have been the saviour of the British aircraft industry had been allowed to progress. There's some great stories about the third prototype and how the test pilots at Boscombe tried to get the thing in the air for just one trip but were prevented from taking ot out by the military police. Apparently the testies had heard about the aircrafts' demise whilst they were down the pub and decided to go back and give it a go. The following morning all, and I mean all, the jigs, formers, templates and prototypes ate Warton were burned and destroyed. B*stard Labour Party.
RE: First successful test flight today from Bruntingthorpe. There weren't too many Valiants and none now remain as far as I know.
Lol at you lot The only Vulcan I've ever heard of was the Vulcan Gay magazine that the 2 guys left behind when I bought their house in Poggy.... I assume that is what we're talking about? (dunno)
A truly sad episode in british aircraft history and politics at least your were lucky enough to see it. Financial pessure from the US no doubt was the major cause of the project termination along with the exaguration of the F111's performance, cost and delivery programme
RE: Lol at you lot hey you haven't lived if you not seen, heard, felt the vulcan. The ground trembles!
Was that about 40 years back? I saw 4 of em teck off at Finningley. Deaf to this day.</p> Just arrived and getting of a Burrows bus at the time . </p>
Link to Vulcan below Vulcan Watch for person at 48 seconds with Union Jack dress on, Woman or Man, What do you think?