itsd flying at our airshow in 3 weeks time @ biggin hill, i remember how loud that thing was! shattered our greenhouse once!

 

Love it too Rob. Going on the 28th I think. Always a good show up there.

Remember when I used to go Ravenswood and used to see them practicing during the week leading upto it. Was the titties

 

yep... gonna see it next week at cosford used to love watching this as a kid. Unfortunately tho there are rumours that the restoration team are struggling to get it ready in time

 

think that is the one my dads freind owns,you would not like the fuel bill,think it cost Ł20,000 to take off bank round and land.....thats why it does not fly much,as far as iam aware his is the only flying one about....

 

the plane is ready mate! its now been fully restored

edit - just seen they have remove one of the engines!

 

I think they're awe-inspiring machines! There was something on Discovery about the restoration of the last one last week - was fascinating to watch.

 

goodwood [yes the festival of speed one] used to have an airshow every year have been fairly close to one of these in flight used to come over our houses off at a little bit of a tangent been closer to a harrier jump jet pilot landed it in front of us kids stood in a field watching lifted back off again and scorched the field vulcan is a awesome plane the noise let alone anything else gotta hear it to believe it

 

makes me laugh, they go to great lengths to make sure cars aint too noisy at Bruntingthorpe... then half way thru the day they fire that fukker up, and the ground shakes where its SO loud!

 

is that where the vulcan is based? how often do they fire it up?

 

If you like hte Vulcan then watch that new program on Nat Geo hosted by Chris Barrie (Rimmer lol) - "Britains Greatest" or something along those lines - they are doing the Vulcan this week on there

 

Yes, but they do not fire it up very often, you are best consulting their website. Bruntingthorpe is also the home of two privately owned English Electric Lightnings. They are fired up with more frequency and are able to fast taxi.

Cue gratuitous shot of my old bike!!!!!

 

I remember seeing the plane fly on one of its last airshows before it was retired

Awesome plane, proper noisy.

Concorde also done a display at the same show.

Steve

 

Yeah i remember it i worked on it for 2 years during the first restoration and im starting back there tomorrow doing some bits and bobs
Its the only job ive had that i enjoyed getting up for in the mornings and im really looking forward to going back

mark

 

i remember one in the james bond film to !

 

Theve still got the model that they used in the film to make it look like it landed in the sea in the hanger and its insured for over 100k

 

Nice!! shame theres no UK privately owned flying ones!! I really dont get the stupid CAA rules that basically ban anything fast or fun in the civil sector. Jet provost is about as good as it gets and they are not that great!!

Lots of great planes which arent kept in military historic flights will be sadly lost due to such stupid rules. Cant see any harriers, tornados, jaguars etc getting a CAA license to fly. Sure they cost shit loads to keep air worthy but theres some rich people who would do it with some of them!

 

love that plane

thankfully i live down the road from RAF Fairford, home to the greatest military airshow.

its on the 18th & 19th July this year, hope its not a wash out like last year. great weekend, and fairford is a gorgeous typical English village

Matt

 

It's Owned by a consortium of people and partly funded by the Lottery Heritage fund. Your quite right though, it is the only one left flying. Sad state of affairs for a plane with so much heritage. have a look at http://www.tvoc.co.uk for more......

 

Watching it fly at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day on 11th July, watched it in the same place the last time it flew (I think it may possibly have been at least 10 or more years back?).

Love the Vulcan, as said, the noise is incredible!

Si

 

its last flight was 1992

 

do you mean at that show? it was doing the rounds last year at the shows.

i was going to go to the first take-off with my g/pa, but wasnt able to in the end, so my dad went with him. gutted when i saw the video & photo's as it is an awesome beast! i have a photo of me infront of it just before its restoration, will have to dig it out later when i am at home

 

Thanks, that would have made me 14, which I would guess is about right as my Dad took me along, and he managed to get us on a couple of helicopters for a nosey round as he used to work on them.

Think it's time I took my old man back to the same event, with him as my guest!

Si

 

Saw the Vulcan at the Southport Airshow last year, it was in a Display with the Eurofighter, the difference in size is hoooooge


My dads got a couple of great stories about the Vulcan,
When it was launched it did a flyby over British Aerospace in Chadderton where they made part of the wings, it went fairly low and ended up smashing the top floor windows of the building and at Eaves Lane school around the corner




They used to hold an Airshow at BA Woodford, my dad was on Police duty there at the roundabout end of the runway, he said he could have touched the wings had he raised his arm up, When the Vulcan came to take off he said the ground was rumbling it was that meaty, and it sounded like Armageddon in a bad mood when it was roaring up the runway.

 

My parents live on a farm just at the end of RAF waddington..

I can remember the bloody thing coming over and rattling the windows.. I see it fly last year but it didnt seem half the loudness it used to be.. mind you they probably werent giving it any..

 

Used to see it when i was a kid at RAF st athans.Awesome plane and the noise was incredible.Remember standing out the roof of my fathers TVR 3000m waiting for it to fly over. Great news that its flying again this year as they were strugling for cash to keep it goin.

 

I'd really like to go along to that air show really, massively interested in old aircraft as most of my family are X RAF and I spent 2 years living in Oman so it was my life once. The Vulcan bomber was always flying around this area back in the day, since the closure of all the air bases round here I hardly see anything unless something is on at Duxford.

Anyone from Blackpool should remember the Vulcan that lived at Blackpool airport, when I lived up there we would pass it everyday on the way to school and on a recent visit back up there I noticed it had gone ? what happened to it ?

My uncle flew lightnings and a good friend of my mum runs a flight school flying them abroad somewhere, there is a website about it somewhere I'll find out what is was for those that might be interested in it.

Some may remember the pictures from Oman I posted before, I still have loads left to scan in and most probably have loads of similar ones of Lightnings and more Hunters and Jaguars etc.

 

This used to be kept at Norwich Airport if i remember rightly?! Im sure it used to be kept almost next to the fence just near the Cromer Road?!

 

The vulcan did a fly past over Lancaster last summer.

iirc it was for a funeral of someone who was to do with the fund raising to restore it.

Unbelievable sound was really low. Awesome

 

the one at norwich is a non flyer... and is still there, its never going to move again... : (

 

A couple of piccies i took today for you guys firstly after some one mentioned the bond film thunder ball this is the model that they used to make it look like they landed it in the sea.


Then a couple of the buiseness end of things number 1 and 2 engines



and the front before it had all the make up pieces put in to channel the air through



and finally a couple of the front end







She's suppost to be going out for engine testing late on in the week so ill try and get a video to post up for you lot that havnt heard it in a while.

mark.

 

ooohhhhh love the sound of rolls royce (bristol) olympus on full chat!!!

 

I was there that day 2! Never forget the noise.... and the car alarms going off hehe

 

The one at blackpool was unfortunatly scrapped for some reason!

 

Anyone remember the one on ebay a few years ago? Wonder what the postage was on that! LOL. When they were made obsolete my father had them in the scrap yard he was working in,was goin to bring a wheel home off one but was too big! So got a chunk of alloy instead but i dont know what part it is.

 

Same plane.
A pub landlord from Droylesden way bought it, got it shifted to Oldham in a few pieces while he got planning permission to site it (i think at his pub) but he couldnt do it, then it just disappeared into thin air.

 

Quick google found it.

Was Dukeggfield not Droylesden

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....can_apart.html

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....w_heights.html

Broken for bits article
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....d_at_last.html

 

Bloody love this plane.

Me and the other half saw is last year at Waddington (Sadly on the Sunday when they didnt manage to get it up )

Its a real shame that so many good planes go to waste.

Hopefully I'll see it flying this year, me and the other half are a bit geeky for airshows. Eastbourne, Biggin Hill and Waddington are usually the ones we go for.

 

Will be there at Fairford for the Air tattoo

 

does anyone know how many vulcans they made? and how many are still at museams (sp) and off the air?

i know only 1 is left for flying now and hopefully seeing it in 2 weeks!

 

Such a shame.There was one local to me at cardiff wales airport in a small aircraft museum,was there one minute smashed to pieces and scrapped the next for no apparent reason.