Jezz Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 My Mrs is a massive fan of old planes, and there she was hanging out the washing at midday and heard an old familiar sound she'd not heard for a while. Looked up, and there in all its glory...... The VULCAN!!!!!! Flying right over my house, around 500 feet up. She just missed getting the camera in time, but I told her if its gear was still down, its only on its short maiden return to service test flight, and will be flying back over around 10 mins later. Sure enough........ Sorry about the quality. She couldnt figure out the zoom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bammbamm Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 is that the guys from bruntingthorpe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezz Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 is that the guys from bruntingthorpe? Yep. Fair play to them. Ok, so most of us could build an airfix kit, but a real 650mph jet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guigsy Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 they have one of those parked up at that airfield in stratford upon avon. first time i saw it almost crashed my car into the hedge going "ooooooh" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bammbamm Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 yeah fair play to them they did it, now the locals will probably stop moanin about the noise of my car when i go round the track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Yep they have finally got it air ready. It should be at the major air shows this year If you haven't experienced the vulcan on a low flyby it is certainly worth it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny Guy Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 seen one of these take off from bruntingthorpe in the 90's, it shook the ground and set off car alarms... pretty impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest craig-mkiv Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 that was just on central new's !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Nice one, i remember them from the airshows years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStar 3000 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC!!!!!! Im over the moon!! Cheers to another British icon. thanks Jez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 "not something you see every day" for the people that take a train to southend it is something they see everyday! lol, one at the airport there, but nice to see one up in the sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Some of us have been lucky enough to be strapped into one, I was PA to the Chief Flying Instructor at RAF Cranwell. One of the perks was I got to fly with him . Not bad for a Panda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezz Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 "not something you see every day" for the people that take a train to southend it is something they see everyday! lol, one at the airport there, but nice to see one up in the sky I've seen that one, with its arse hanging over the train track. It was just nice to see that shape in flight again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Nice to see one in the air, Its along time since I have seen one:cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R3DG3CKO ROB Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 That's awesome we were only talking about this today at lunch awesome news... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Wow. Looking forward to seeing her fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guigsy Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488349&in_page_id=1770 more pics there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Read about this today, awesome news, and great to see it in the air again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 someone on here has pics of there car next to one of those cant remember who though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 I Had one as my fly past on my passing out parade from basic training back in the ole days. Awesome pieces of kit I have to say. The noise is incredible when they pull as hard up as they can on max power straight over you They are even more awesome in the flesh as well. Duxford air museum has one (or they did years ago) and when you stand under it you feel sooooo small. Just stand next to the blue steel missile knock up that the Vulcan used to carry and that dwarfs the modern tornado which is no small bit of kit itself. Actually thinking about it Duxford is a good day out even if you aren't a total aircraft nerd. The original wooden tailed concorde is there as is one of Britains finest abandoned projects the TSR2. A true testament to British aviation engineering that spawned Britain's current engineering excellence in the current world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supradibbs Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Great to see!!!! Drove passed the British Airways hangar the other day so sad to see concorde just sat there doing nothing really wish we could see that fly again but comercially like it supposed to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkirby Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Brings back so many memories, i used to like near newark, notts and they were based near there at the raf air base and used to use the local powerstation as target practice so every week they used to fly over my house pretty low for dummy bomb runs and when i mean low i'm talking you could see the pilots who used to wave at you when they banked round and used to shake the chimny pots off the houses Great to see such a great plane back in the skys Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 now that is cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adzn2k Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 A couple of months back i was in the falklands during the falklands 25. they had loads of pictures of these flying over getting ready to bomb stanley They are quite impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I have actually flown one (way back many years ago) out of RAF Waddington, amazing aircraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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