Vulcan

cat_with_no_tail

I have to say, it was a bit of an anti-climax.

Did a few low-speed passes over the bay, and a couple of vertical climbs. 8min show in total.

I seem to remember them coming much lower last time I saw them. Engine noise was still impressive, made several small children cry, but I was just expecting.......moar!

This is all I managed.

Anonymous

Maybe you went partially deaf after last time?

clamps81

Saw one at Farnborough a few years back. Incredible stuff. Dare say they're not dialling it right up though - limited parts and all that.

VWsurfbum

not being a plane spotter, what's so special about them?
I like the photo with the moon in view

FocusZing

Cat With No Tail wrote:

I have to say, it was a bit of an anti-climax.

Did a few low-speed passes over the bay, and a couple of vertical climbs. 8min show in total.

I seem to remember them coming much lower last time I saw them. Engine noise was still impressive, made several small children cry, but I was just expecting.......moar!

This is all I managed.

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Good shot with the moon, lucky it was clear too.

FocusZing

VWsurfbum wrote:

not being a plane spotter, what's so special about them?
I like the photo with the moon in view

It's kind of like watching a heron or a swan fly it just shouldn't happen. That massoove delta wing, rawkus Rolls Royce engines. They don't half climb too and the display pilots don't seem afraid to chuck the old hector about a bit.

cat_with_no_tail

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Maybe you went partially deaf after last time?

Pardon?

cat_with_no_tail

Right, this is more like it.

vid

Someone with much more talent, and a much better viewing spot than me got this pic, which is one of the best I have ever seen:

Anonymous

That's been shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels, and having seen a few shops in my time

cat_with_no_tail

Well, the Vulcan was there, and the moon was there, and I know the spot where he got the shot.
The photographer has been asked if he shopped it several times and absolutely denies it.

Not saying you're wrong (you know far more about this stuff than me), but I have no reason to doubt the guy taking the photo either.

Anonymous

I'm joking, it's an old (very old) meme.

cat_with_no_tail

*wooooosh*

Much like the (non-photoshopped) vulcan, that went right over my head.

Northwind

They're limited in what they're allowed to do with it now, more limited aerobatics and they run the engines way below limit which is why it doesn't make you feel like you might s**t yourself any more Still fab though.

"not being a plane spotter, what's so special about them? "

Well, they're cool looking mainly. But that one's the last one flying out of the Vulcan fleet, and was rebuilt by volunteers to get it back in the sky which is a ridiculous undertaking. It doesn't have that much of a cool history itself but the air show pilot flew one in the black buck raids during the falklands and bombed port stanley airfield with it (the story's proper british wartime madness btw, well worth reading)

What's quite nice is that it's limited to visual flight now, so when it's flying in and out of displays it has to stay low and nicely visible- it flew over my house last year and made all the windows rattle

mak3m

loved vulcans sice i was a lil boy and got the crap scared out of me at a display, work with a bloke who is obsessed with them and hes going to freak at that photo

Cat With No Tail

did it have all 4 engines going, last couple of times ive seen one only allowed to have 2 going

all 4 is getting into the 'am i ever going to hear again' zone

cat_with_no_tail

I'd say it had all 4 running. All the pics I've seen seem to confirm that.

mak3m

oh yeah doh

saw one at sunderland airshow last year and it only had two on, too many complaints about noise, which is bizzarre as the red arrows and assorted tornadoes and typhoons always display at the same time

DIESELDOG

Awesome bit of kit, the only trouble is that I find it hard to look at a picture of one without thinking of when I went to an air show years ago, mother got all excited thinking one was approaching in the distance, it wasn't until I mentioned the fact that it had British Airways on it that she realised it was concorde approaching not the Vulcan.

Her eyesight is now controlled.

Love n hugs

DD

Willrideforcake

Always remember watching Vulcan displays when they'd set car alarms off when they stuck them into a climb, feeling the air vibrate - just awesome machines

FocusZing

It's rumbling around in full glory at Kemble on the 18th 19th this month.

FocusZing

Cat With No Tail wrote:

Right, this is more like it.

[ url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn_IuAn1zIU]vid[/url]

Someone with much more talent, and a much better viewing spot than me got this pic, which is one of the best I have ever seen:



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Smashing photo, I'd be proud to drop a bacon wrapped nuke from that.