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Former Member
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Mornin...............
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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Morning Everyone
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1103 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It's another bright sunny day and I caught the sun a tadge more than I thought yesterday
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I vaguely remember seeing the Vulcan do a fly-over at an air-show my parents took me to when I was a very young nipper. My memory involves seeing a small blob in the sky way in the distance, then the entire Earth start to shake and a noise unlike anything I'd ever heard before start to build up! Phenomenal machine!
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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A Vulcan overhead in low level flight is an awesome experience. Saw one at the last airshow at RAF Gaydon before it closed circa 1978
----------------------------------------My only flying, other than normal passenger jets, was as a passenger in a 2 man glider. Launch was by means of a Landrover towing until we got sufficient lift. Fantastic feeling - hundreds of feet above the Cotswolds with virtually no sound. Landing was a bit nerve wracking. The passenger sits at the front in the nose with only the thin metal skin between you and the rapidly approaching earth! |
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1103 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You're so right Thargor, back when the RAF could give it some welly the ground would shake when a Vulcan was about. The trust who have XH-558 have to treat it with a lot more care as it is the only one left flying. Even so, it is still superb to see it fly and just get a reminder of those air days at the RAF camp near me when you had lots of noise and that howl that only seems to be from a Vulcan. Just simply superb.
----------------------------------------Found a bit of shelter but have still managed to catch the sun again, starting to settle now that I'm cooling down. Not liking the sound of being in front there JonnieB of a glider  |
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Barnsley_Tatts
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 3, 2005 Post Count: 281 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Vulcan? Nah, for pure awesome raw power, nothing IMO can match the Lightning.
----------------------------------------I was based at a radar station near Scarborough and a Lightning overflew at a very low height, hit his burners and went vertical. Apparently people inside a bunker designed to withstand a small nuke heard & felt it! I was outside & thought my chest was going to burst with the noise! I remember it quite vividly from 1980.  |
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Member #593 BenBramley
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1103 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Oooo, not seen a Lightning for yonks, don't know if there is one still flying. But, yes, it is a bit of a beast. And of course back then they could put some serious power out, unlike now of course with these old planes.
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Mornin.............
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