Bruntingsthorpe & Vulcan

[frogstamper]

Originally Posted by homealone

If the Vulcan is going to be at Waddington air show, this year I am seriously going to try & get to see it, I just hope they let the pilot do some of the more extreme manoeuvres it is capable of

Talking of the maneuver's a Vulcan can pull off, the one that always impressed me was the procedure when it dropped a nuclear weapon, also I just found this old footage of a Vulcan being "rolled" at the 1955 Farnborough air show, commentary courtesy of Raymond Baxter.

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/military_videos.htm


Also I remember as a kid doing a project on the Valiant crash in Southwick, Sussex, which was no more than 500 yards from our school. I hasten to add this was in 1956, 8 years before I was born.


http://www.findonvillage.com/0843_a_...on_in_1956.htm

[haydnwalker]

I always love Waddington and the Vulcan.

I live near the Ex-RAF Finningley (Now Doncaster Robin Hood Airport) and the Vulcan used to make yearly trips there, as it was one of the few airfields it could land at (one of the longest runways in the UK at the time).

I was only about 12 when I last heard those awsome engines at full pelt (I was about half a kilometre away but still had to cover my ears at that age!

Oh the memories! Its got me thinking about re-visiting Waddington again this year (the weather last year was a bit tradgic...had to sit in the car to watch the red arrows due to all the rain!)