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Guess what I saw today?
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:26 pm
by HowardQ
Out for a run just south of the Humber this afternoon, parked up to go for a walk. heard a noise in the sky
Dived back in the car to get the camara out, didn't really have time to get a good focus before it went out of site.
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r164 ... 090001.jpg
Not very often you get to see the only remaining Vulcan fly over you.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:05 pm
by Samray
I missed it at the Lowestoft Air Show a week ago.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:12 pm
by Aladinsaneuk
i love that aircraft
nothing makes a noise like that - is the falco of the skys!
Re: Guess what I saw today?
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:56 pm
by D-Rider
Excellent ! .... and well done to grab the camera so quickly
HowardQ wrote:
Not very often you get to see the only remaining Vulcan fly over you.
Guess you just missed out the word "flying" after "remaining" .... we've got one just a couple of miles down the road at the Midland Air Museum .... but it's a non-flyer.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:12 pm
by Kwackerz
When i got back from Kenya, there was the Vulcan parked next to our plane. (at RAF Brize Norton)
Despite the shouts of 'spotter' from the rest of the squadron
I still got the flight staff to let me go touch it and take a quick snap. :)
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:25 pm
by MartDude
An abiding memory from childhood is watching/hearing/feeling a Vulcan at an air show (RAF Finningley), in the 60's; the noise and gut-shaking vibrations as it took off and climbed were sublime. Bit like being in the mosh-pit at a Motorhead gig.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:29 pm
by Kwackerz
Bit like being in the mosh-pit at a Motorhead gig.
Quality analogy!
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:30 pm
by D-Rider
MartDude wrote:An abiding memory from childhood is watching/hearing/feeling a Vulcan at an air show (RAF Finningley), in the 60's; the noise and gut-shaking vibrations as it took off and climbed were sublime. Bit like being in the mosh-pit at a Motorhead gig.
I can relate to this!
as a kid - airshow - English Electric Lightning - hit the afterburners - that was something else .....
.... Motorhead gig in Bracknell (Bomber tour I think .... quite appropriate I guess) .... I ended up just in front of the speaker stack ......
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:57 pm
by Gio
There was one at Farnboghorror last week
Re: Guess what I saw today?
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:16 pm
by HowardQ
D-Rider wrote:Excellent ! .... and well done to grab the camera so quickly
HowardQ wrote:
Not very often you get to see the only remaining Vulcan fly over you.
Guess you just missed out the word "flying" after "remaining" .... we've got one just a couple of miles down the road at the Midland Air Museum .... but it's a non-flyer.
Exactly, so I wouldn't have been photographing that one flying over me!
We were north of Finningley, where I saw one take off years ago. Heard the thing coming, before I could see it and thought what the hell's that, no bloody airbus A310 sounds like that and dived back in the car for the camera, glad I did.
No idea where it had been during the day.
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:58 am
by Falcopops
Nice spot.
IMHO that's the best looking plane built, Concord came close but was too slender looking.
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:15 am
by fastasfcuk
nice one howard,
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:54 pm
by BikerGran
MartDude wrote:An abiding memory from childhood is watching/hearing/feeling a Vulcan at an air show (quote]
I've never forgotten seeing them fly over our garden in Worcestershire way back when - no idea where from/to, but in those days all kids recognised every plane that flew over! But we never called it a 'Vulcan', it was always referred to as a 'V-bomber'.
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:33 pm
by scorpio24v
Pull up a sandbag and I`ll give the lantern a swing,
I was on Ascension in may `82 with a couple of 23sqn F4`s (providing CAP as we were getting a bit twichy about possible soviet interest about what we were doing). One of the most memorable sights were of 14 odd Victor tankers from 57 sqn Marham and the two vulcans flying off wideawake airstrip, en route to bomb Stanley, what turned out to be the last operational sortie of that great aircraft. Oh and I got the medal for being drunk and refusing to fight
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:37 pm
by scorpio24v
BikerGran wrote:MartDude wrote:An abiding memory from childhood is watching/hearing/feeling a Vulcan at an air show (quote]
I've never forgotten seeing them fly over our garden in Worcestershire way back when - no idea where from/to, but in those days all kids recognised every plane that flew over! But we never called it a 'Vulcan', it was always referred to as a 'V-bomber'.
Either "Waddo" Waddington, or Scamton. The two on Ascension were from Waddington. Sorry Scampton, I have had a beer
The "V" bombers were the Victor, Valiant, and of course the Vulcan. The Vulcan carried our airborne nuclear deterant before the fisheads with their Polaris missile got in on the act and stole all the defence budget. The Victor became an airborne tanker, and the Valiant, they were all melted down to make saucepans and russian sidecars.
