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[Jo_Kent]

Saw the Vulcan today at Clacton Air Show - absolutely fantastic.  Not the first time I've seen it but still I'm stunned by its sheer elegance and power.   


Lin

[zirk]

Saw the Vulcan today at Clacton Air Show - absolutely fantastic.  Not the first time I've seen it but still I'm stunned by its sheer elegance and power.   
Lin

Flying or on the ground?, I remember when I was kid they use to do there low flying cold war practice runs over the village about 4 of them one by one with Fighter Escorts, really low, sounded awesome.

[PAULCDX]

Fantastic aircraft, have seen it a few times at various air shows including RAF Cosford and RAF Fairford......... Love the sound and roar as it goes by 

Still love the sound of the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Tornado Gr4's also   

[Sir Tigger KC]

I watched an interesting documentary last night on BBC4 about the post war British aviation industry, and how British companies were at the forefront of military jet aircraft design and manufacture.

It featured the V -bombers, ie the Vulcan, Valiant and Victor, and showed footage of a Vulcan doing barrel rolls at the Farnham Airshow in the sixties!!    It looked awesome!! 

[Jo_Kent]

Saw the Vulcan today at Clacton Air Show - absolutely fantastic.  Not the first time I've seen it but still I'm stunned by its sheer elegance and power.   
Lin

Flying or on the ground?, I remember when I was kid they use to do there low flying cold war practice runs over the village about 4 of them one by one with Fighter Escorts, really low, sounded awesome.

Hi Zirk, it was flying and put on a brilliant display as always.

[I_want_an_Omega]

I watched an interesting documentary last night on BBC4 about the post war British aviation industry, and how British companies were at the forefront of military jet aircraft design and manufacture.

It featured the V -bombers, ie the Vulcan, Valiant and Victor, and showed footage of a Vulcan doing barrel rolls at the Farnham Airshow in the sixties!!    It looked awesome!! 

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Part of that was filmed at Newark air museum where one of them now resides. For it's final flight (from Waddington) the journey time was 4 minutes.

[BazaJT]

Without doubt a beautiful looking aircraft and sounds awesome too.For those interested in reading I can thoroughly recomend Vulcan 617,longest bombing mission in history,to hit the Falklands runway.

[Olympia5776]

Flying or on the ground?, I remember when I was kid they use to do there low flying cold war practice runs over the village about 4 of them one by one with Fighter Escorts, really low, sounded awesome.
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I can recall those flights too. I had an Uncle who farmed in the Scottish Borders near Kelso where I spend every school holiday and they used to fly over the farm complex ,which was on a high plateau ,   using the high grain tower as a landmark and then onto the Battle of Waterloo memorial at Peniel Heugh. I've seen them in normal green camouflage and white too and the one thing I always remember was that they were so low you could feel the exhaust wash from them.....
An experience never to be forgotten.

[I_want_an_Omega]

Without doubt a beautiful looking aircraft and sounds awesome too.For those interested in reading I can thoroughly recomend Vulcan 617,longest bombing mission in history,to hit the Falklands runway.

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I see it each time I drive into Lincoln. It sits just inside the fence at RAF Waddington on the A15. It's about 6 miles from where I live. 

[dad1uk]

The Vulcan at Clacton would have been XH558 The Spirit of Great Britain the last Vulcan flying. All paid for by charity and donations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan_XH558
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/

[Kevin Wood]

Enjoy it while it lasts.. This display season has cost them 2 serviceable engines destroyed when bags of silica gel were ingested. I suspect that this has brought the end of her flying days significantly closer.

[05omegav6]

Without doubt a beautiful looking aircraft and sounds awesome too.For those interested in reading I can thoroughly recomend Vulcan 617,longest bombing mission in history,to hit the Falklands runway.

+1 cracking read