Vulcan

[Dudley52]

Flew straight over my house. It was simply amazing, sent a shiver down my spine with goosebumps.

Made me feel proud to be British

I hope I get to see/hear it again

YouTube - ‪Inspirational Video for Avro Vulcan XH558‬‏


Anyone else experienced the iconic Vulcan?

 

[Access Denied]

Nope but then I've had a Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster flying in formation over my head at about 60 feet. Bought a tear to my eye, never thought I'd see that in my life.

 

[cHodAX]

The Romulans are way better. Fuck logic!

 

[old.user4556]

Interesting choice of music to start being an Irish band.

 

[Lamp]

 

[Zenith.UK]

Yes, I've experienced a Vulcan bomber performing a flyby.
It was the RAF Valley open day on 17 August 1985.

The fact that I can remember it clearly, even now, 26 years later, says how much of an impact it had on me. The very air and ground vibrated when they opened up the turbofans for take-off. You didn't just *hear* it going past, you *felt* it as a visceral impact in your chest and gut.

I'm going to be going to the RAF Cosford Air Show on 12 June where Vulcan bomber XH558 will be doing a flyby. I want to experience it one more time before it's gone for good, and I want my family to experience it as well. It really is something unique.

I also thought this was another iconic shot for the history books...

 

[DaGaffer]

I've sat inside one. I've also had a kip in a Buccaneer engine intake. (One of my mates managed to have a shag in the back of a Concorde once).

 

[ilaya]

bah thought this was about the mana eldritch

 

[Fafnir]

Well tell your sodding BBC reporters that the aircraft that flew over during the wedding was not a hercules as a woman said, but a Avro Lancaster.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

I've seen a Vulcan up close at an airshow. Impressive piece of monster aircraft.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Well tell your sodding BBC reporters that the aircraft that flew over during the wedding was not a hercules as a woman said, but a Avro Lancaster.

Never figured you for an aircraft buff Fatnir

 

[Dudley52]

I've seen a Vulcan up close at an airshow. Impressive piece of monster aircraft.

Same, nothing beats seeing and hearing it in the air though.

YouTube - ‪XH558 Vulcan Bomber first flight‬‏
YouTube - ‪Avro Vulcan XH558 Take Off Howl & Vulcan Display‬‏

That howl is the best sound i've ever heard

 

[Vulcan]

bah thought this was about the mana eldritch

I was a fecking Enchanter ya tart lol hiya Ilaya ) xx

 

[Zenith.UK]

Thanks for reminding me.
The Vulcan got rained off from the airshow I went to.
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We're looking to see where else we can go see it this year.

 

[ilaya]

whatever Vulcan! dont even think you knew... just press one button for carnage as mana :-p unless mentalist hehee

and hiya! lol

 

[Punishment]

Tornado is awesome flying low

YouTube - ‪RAF Tornado takes off‬‏

YouTube - ‪Tornado high speed pass‬‏

YouTube - ‪Insane High Speed Low Passes in Jets‬‏

YouTube - ‪Cheeky R.A.F Tornado Pilot Salutes as plane passes at 300 M.P.H plus!!!‬‏

YouTube - ‪RAF Tornado 1.3 Mach Attack Aircraft.‬‏

 

[Fafnir]

Never figured you for an aircraft buff Fatnir

Well as a kid and teen me, my brother, dad and uncle used to visit airshows around Sweden.

AJ-37 Viggen

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...h_Air_Force_Marcel_van_Leeuwen.jpg?uselang=sv

Draken (Was used is some movies as Mig)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Saab_J_35A-01.jpg?uselang=sv

The Flying barrel, AKA Tunnan

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/J29F_Saab_29_Tunnan.jpg

J32 Lansen

File:Lansen 1.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

A21

File:Saab J 21A-3.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

 

[DaGaffer]

Love Swedish aircraft design; it feels like it comes from a parallel universe, although the Gripen is more in line with mainstream military aviation thinking.

 

[Scouse]

Yes, I've experienced a Vulcan bomber performing a flyby.
It was the RAF Valley open day on 17 August 1985.

I was there with ya m8

 

[Zenith.UK]

Woooohoooooo!!!

I got to see it today at Southport Airshow!
It was everything I remembered. Huge, hanging in the air, sounds like thunder as it flies past. I'm glad I got to see it again.

 

[Huntingtons]

why does a fighter have to be painted camoflague?

 

[Keitanz]

why does a fighter have to be painted camoflague?

So it's hard to find when it crashes

 

[DaGaffer]

why does a fighter have to be painted camoflague?

Its a bomber

 

[Huntingtons]

its not like its gonna land in the forest and drop a few bombs is it? - and if its a bomber it shouldnt be flying so low it will get shot down? Wouldnt a paint job that blends with the clouds/skies (wtf) be smarter?

anyway, i know jack shit about planes. just found the pain odd.

 

[Agell]

It was a cold war nuclear bomber, designed to fly at low level to its target, hence the paint job making it hard to see from above. Same as the tornado gr1, only the British are stupid enough to fly low level at high speed (top brass promote it as high skill) however as shown in gulf war 1 it is too easy to take you out. Now everything is high level, either air launched cruise missiles beyond the target horizon, or at high altitude above missile envelopes with gps guided bombs

 

[Madmaxx]

So it's hard to find when it crashes

lol :worthy:

 

[DaGaffer]

its not like its gonna land in the forest and drop a few bombs is it? - and if its a bomber it shouldnt be flying so low it will get shot down? Wouldnt a paint job that blends with the clouds/skies (wtf) be smarter?

anyway, i know jack shit about planes. just found the pain odd.

Its not just about when the plane is flying, but also when its at its most vunerable, on the ground.

It was a cold war nuclear bomber, designed to fly at low level to its target, hence the paint job making it hard to see from above. Same as the tornado gr1, only the British are stupid enough to fly low level at high speed (top brass promote it as high skill) however as shown in gulf war 1 it is too easy to take you out. Now everything is high level, either air launched cruise missiles beyond the target horizon, or at high altitude above missile envelopes with gps guided bombs

Gulf War 1 wasn't what they'd trained for though; they'd built a strategy about flying across the central German Plain (through the Fulda Gap) to stop a Warsaw Pact invasion, then GW1 came along and their less than brilliant terrain-following-radar (a proud tradition of shit systems designed by committee) couldn't cope with sand dunes, so they kept flying into them. Low level made a certain amount of sense when frankly, you weren't expected to survive long after a first strike anyway (it was a policy called tripwire; nuke the Soviets in the field to stop their armies and hope it doesn't go strategic); over Iraq it made no sense at all when their SAMs were de-specced old Soviet types and their air force had been destroyed on the ground; going low level just made you a target for the SAMs because the environment had no "clutter" you get over Europe so the radar worked at lower level. The Americans flew at higher level but went everywhere with "Wild Weasel" aircraft (old F-4 Phantoms with ARMs) that were designed to home in on SAM radars as soon as they switched on.

 

[Mabs]

its not like its gonna land in the forest and drop a few bombs is it? - and if its a bomber it shouldnt be flying so low it will get shot down? Wouldnt a paint job that blends with the clouds/skies (wtf) be smarter?

anyway, i know jack shit about planes. just found the pain odd.

and why would you paint a ship pink ?
god knows, but seemed to work

Mountbatten pink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Influenza]

XH558 is at the Sunderland airshow today , just been on and its still awesome after all these years.

I still remember XL319 landing at sunderland airport all of those years ago , it came over my house very low when it was landing.

 

[SilverHood]

You guys should read the book Vulcan 607:
Vulcan 607: Amazon.co.uk: Rowland White: Books

It pretty much proves what an awesome piece of engineering it was.