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Building: McSorley +442 - Built, and now sold :(
posted on 27/7/13 at 05:52 PM
So where's the piccies then? Should be poised! Had the Vulcan over our place a couple of weeks ago, by the time I'd grabbed my phone of
the garage shelf it was gone
I still remember seeing them lined up at Waddington a loooong time back
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
The vulcan is an epic piece of machinery, I was fortunate to work on the static one at Woodford during my apprenticeship, the old boy retirees used
to come in every tuesday to tinker with it and we got to help out. Was great listening to all the stories.
Saw it fly at leuchars a couple of years ago and it made the hairs on the neck tingle, it also made me laugh when my boy nearly sh*t his kecks when
they opened the taps on it, about 3 seconds previous he was complaining it wasnt very loud
Oooh Good, Posted before, but great excuse to post the pictures from the "private" display I had over my back garden in Cranfield a few
months ago. Could not have been more over head, so low and LOUD
I believe it was going through a "test" display sequence. Although Cranfield is pretty much a training and light aircraft field, it has a
long runway and we get some nice little flybys. Had a spitfire, Lancaster, Hawk (he was going for it ) recently and usually get a Merlin and
Apache quite regularly..
Mate of mine was first on the scene when a guy crashed at Cranfield many years ago during a flying display, He crashed right in front of the parachute
centers club house , I think he was flying inverted at low level and pulled up instead of down. We see all sorts of aircraft from our back garden as
we are only a couple of miles from IWM Duxford, the DeHaviland Rapide flies over almost every weekend doing pleasure flights, Spitfires etc we see on
a regular basis
Was on hoilday in Cyprus a few years ago and we were up in the mountains and a vulcan was flying below us.
Saw it no problem over the water and the patches of light coloured ground but it totally dissapeared when it flew over green areas.
My grandad worked on these in the RAF and said cockpit was unbelievably cramped.
And had a very interesting talk by an ex vulcan pilot, he quoted some high up, cant remember who, who sai the vulcan is a fantastic triangular
aircraft unforunately it doesnt mind which corner goes first. and you can alwasy tell the pilot and copilot of a vulcan as the pilots head tilts to
the left and the copilots tilt to the right.
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Building: It is an ex-Locost - it has gone to the IOW!
posted on 2/8/13 at 09:06 PM
I caught a plane from Southend airport last Friday and was surprised to see a Vulcan parked just next to the long-term car park. Obviously in storage,
but a bit of a shock!
posted on 27/7/13 at 12:44 PM
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